Proposed re-arrangement of the Annual Sanitary Reports
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pp 251-353. Extensive correspondence between the Secretary of State, the Government of India, the Presidency and Provincial Governments, and a number of Sanitary Commissioner, regarding the content and layout of the Annual Sanitary Reports, and the collection and recording of vital statistics.
pp 129-41. Two letters received from the Deputy Surgeon General, Her Majesty's Indian Forces, Lucknow, reporting on the cholera in Oudh. Includes short reports received from medical officers throughout Oudh, plus statistics showing daily deaths from cholera in the District of Basti for March 1877...
Proposed International Commission of Enquiry into the plague
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pp 623-25. The Foreign Office forward copy correspondence regarding the proposed International Medical Commission of Enquiry into the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia, and the nomination of Dr [William Henry] Colvill as the representative for Her Majesty's Government.
Experiments in connection with the effects of snake-poisoning
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Correspondence between the Government of India, the Government of Bengal and the Indian Medical Department regarding the work of Surgeon-Major J Ewart's Snake-poison committee, and the secondment of Dr Wall for experimental work for the said committee. Includes an annex describing investigation...
Correspondence forwarded to the Snake Poison Commission regarding Albemarl Bettington's investigations into the poison of the foorsa [echis carinatus, or saw-scaled viper].
Improvement of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta
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pp 205-15. Correspondence between Horace A Cockerell, Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal; J F Beatson, Surgeon-General of the Indian Medical Department, and the Government of India, regarding proposed improvement works to the Calcutta Medical College Hospital.
Improvement of the Calcutta Medical College Hospital
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pp 603-59. Correspondence, reports and memoranda on the current state of and proposed improvements to the Calcutta Medical College Hospital, including opinions of the surgical, medical and administrative staff; financial estimates; comparisons with other Indian and British hospitals; and comments...
Regarding the Bengal Vaccination Report for 1878-79
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Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the [smallpox] vaccination report for Bengal, plus letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal regarding the Bengal vaccine establishment.
Letters from Dr Henry MacCormac, advocating the use of dilute sulphuric acid as a prophylactic against cholera, and for the use of "earth closets" as a sanitary measure.