Establishment of a Government Medical School at Sylhet in the Surma Valley Division of Assam
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pp 1131-37. Communication from the Chief Commissioner of Assam regarding scheme details, and enclosing a list showing an estimate of expenditure in the proposed school for the first year. Government of India request further information.
Letter dated 25 May 1789 from Dr Roxburgh to John Hollond Governor and President in Council at Fort St George, Madras, requests a specimen plant be sent to England. Refers to letter from Court of Directors 7 March 1777 requesting that every effort be made for a bread-fruit tree to be sent to Eng...
pp 115-17. Communication from W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, Turkish Arabia, regarding the upcoming International Sanitary Conference on the transmission of cholera and plague, the value of quarantine restrictions in preventing the spread of cholera, and the current arrangements in Persi...
Quarantine restrictions upon vessels coming from infected ports
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pp 413-32. Comprising: Port of Calcutta, Rules for the Guidance of Running Pilots. Chief Commissioner, British Burma, Rules relating to quarantine for the ports mentioned in Schedule A [Rangoon, Moulmein, Akyab, Kyouk-Phyoo, Sandoway, Tavoy, Mergui, Bassein]. Correspondence between the Governmen...
Quarantine rules framed by the Government of Bombay
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pp 313-18. Government of Bombay submit Rules relating to Quarantine for the ports of Bombay [Mumbai], Kurrachee [Karachi], Aden and Karwar; and extract thereon from a Report by the Health Officer, Bombay. Plus communication from the Government of India noting their concern over the proposals.
Mortality in the Lucknow Lunatic Asylum during 1871-1872
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Correspondence regarding the mortality rate, including comparative statistical statements of the ratios of deaths and discharges in the lunatic asylums of different provinces; a memorandum of the 1865 Lunatic Asylum Site Committee on the sanitary condition of the asylum site; letter from the Comm...
Communication from the Chief Commissioner of Oudh forwarding reports on endemic skin diseases, received from medical officers stationed throughout the Province in response to the circular from Drs Tilbury Fox and Farquhar. Contains statistics and detailed case studies for skin diseases in Oudh,...