Statistical tables for smallpox across the three Presidencies, 1853-1877
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pp 557-63. Statistical tables compiled by J Murray, Inspector General of Hospitals, showing admissions and deaths amongst the civil population, native prisoners, native troops and European troops across the three Presidencies for 1853-1877.
Report on the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum for 1877, plus resolution
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pp 453-67. Returns of the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum, providing tabulated data on admissions and discharges, number of criminals admitted, religion and sex of patients, occupation, ages, types of insanity, causes of insanity, hospital statistics, expenditure, sanctioned establishment, profit from pa...
Enlargement and improvement of the Calcutta Medical College Hospital
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pp 43-63. Communication from the Secretary to the Committee on Medical Expenditure in Bengal, forwarding: Memorandum by the Committee on Medical Expenditure in Bengal on paragraph 10 of a memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on correspondence relating to the Calcutta Medical College Hospit...
Possible application of the Egyptian Quarantine Rules at Aden
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pp 339-40. Secretary of State for India forwards a communication from the Vice-Consul at Alexandria regarding the inadvisability of requesting that the Egyptian Board of Health accept the instigation of Indian Quarantine Rules as sufficient to prevent the spread of plague from the Gulf. Recommend...
Proposed establishment of Pasteur Institute in the Punjab and Poona
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pp 327-55. Correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of a Pasteur Institute in Poona: Report by Dr Lingard on the unsuitability of Poona's climate, and the necessity of constructing a refrigerated room if the anti-rabic vaccine was to be developed there. Includes details of different m...
Scheme for the extension of bacteriological work in India
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pp 1559-66. Circular from the Government of India to the Provincial and Presidency Governments regarding the need to apply modern scientific methods to the study of diseases in India; plus Note on the bacteriological requirements for India by the Director General, Indian Medical Service.