pp 1011-17. Communication from the Government of Bengal, forwarding a letter from the Public Health Society of Calcutta, calling for leprosy asylums to be licensed by Government.
pp 609-97. Correspondence regarding the administration of asylums throughout India, including detailed discussion of: plans to amalgamate asylum provision in certain areas; the proposed construction of new asylums; the need to encourage the study of mental disease by including it in the syllabus...
Establishment of bacteriological laboratories in India
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pp 743-85. Correspondece. Presidency and Provincial Government replies to Government of India proposals to establish a central research laboratory for the whole of India, plus provincial laboratories.
pp 1713-18. Letters received from various medical institutions throughout the Punjab regarding quinine supplies, prices and the efficacy of quinine, forwarded to the Government of India by the Government of the Punjab; plus request that quinine be purchasable from the open market in addition to p...
Letter to Wallich from Charles Lushington, Secretary to the Public Department, 6 Feb 1818: accompanying a box of seeds relating to several fruits and vegetables from South America, received from the Court of Directors together with a description Lushington asks Wallich to sow the seeds as he see...
Letter to Lieutenant Colonel William Casement, Secretary to Government in the Military Department, from J Adam, Secretary to the Medical Board, 23 Feb 1826: The letter refers to an earlier letter of 15 Jul 1825, enquiring of the Governor General if a portion of land at the Calcutta Botanical Gar...
No 216 Letter to Lieutenant Colonel William Casement, Secretary to Government in the Military Department, from J. Adam, Secretary to the Medical Board, 14 Mar 1826: acknowledges receipt of letter dated 3 Mar 1826, in which the Governor General enquires about quantity of ground to be allotted to...
pp 123-24. Correspondence, plus request from the Government of India for a report on the existing quarantine arrangements, their effectiveness and cost, and whether there have been any instances where an absence of enforced quarantine procedure allowed the importation and spread of disease.