pp 139-66. Reports and correspondence received from Medical Officers throughout Oudh remarking on the prevalence of fever, providing observations on the fever aetiology; the sanitary condition of towns and cities; measures taken to combat the fever; and meteorological, morbidity and mortality sta...
pp 245-96. Communication from the Government of Bombay to the Government of India, 03 Dec 1873, forwarding: Report of T B Johnstone, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, 16 Aug 1872, providing a short description of the accomodation on the island, with a sketch map of the positions of the vari...
Wallich recommended for employment at the Calcutta Botanic Garden
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To H. [Henry St George] Tucker, Secretary to the Government, from W. [William] Roxburgh, recommending employment of Nathaniel Wallich, Surgeon to Danish settlement at Serampore, to Botanical Garden [Calcutta]. Botanical Garden, 1 Feb 1809. Governor General in Council decides in favour of said em...
No 26 Letter to G. A. Bushby, Secretary to the Government of Bengal General Department, from Wallich, 21 Dec [1840] covering letter for nos 27-31, which relate to plants despatched from and received into the Botanic Garden gives an overview of some issues relating to the Botanic Garden, coverin...
Report by William Griffith on the Calcutta Botanic Garden
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Includes: lists of desiderata of medical plants, extracted from Dr John Lindley's Flora Medica: a botanical account of all the more important plants used in medicine, in different parts of the world; plus lists of plants and seeds distributed from the botanic garden during 1843; list of "useful p...
Letter relaying Dr Gibson's trials of Sarsaparilla
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Document No. 5531: Letter dated 19 October 1847 from J. Scott, Secretary of the Medical Board, Bombay, to the Governor in Council informing him of the result of trials of Sarsaparilla [bramble] grown in India supplied by Surgeon Gibson and contrasting it with that grown in England. References R...
pp 1253-56. Report by J Sutherland, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Bengal, on the supposed causes of malarial fever, and the importance of sanitary improvements to address them.
Akyab Sanitary Inspection Report and Report on Cholera Outbreak
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pp 1341-65. Reports by the Sanitary Commissioner for British Burmah, including discussion on the aetiology of cholera, with remarks on the low-infection rate amongst the Chinese community, which they attribute to drinking tea instead of un-boiled water. Plus comments by Colonel Sir A Phayre, Beng...
Rules for the better registration of vital statistics in Berar
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pp 297-309. Correspondence plus copy Rules for the better registration of vital statistics in Berar, to be read in lieu of those published in Residency orders of the 6th of June 1870.
