Accounts of the ravages in Pali in the province of Ajmer of a malady resembling the plague, investigations into the nature of the disease, measures necessary to prevent its introduction in the Company's territories, restrictions adopted on the British frontier.
Accounts of the ravages in Pali in the province of Ajmer of a malady resembling the plague, investigations into the nature of the disease, measures necessary to prevent its introduction in the Company's territories, restrictions adopted on the British frontier.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kyd's proposal for keeping meteorological registers at different stations to examine the physical effects of climate
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pp 347-49 Suggests that Collectors in the provinces keep a regular meteorological register to provide the administration with information by which to examine the physical effects of the climate. p 354. Encloses a draft scheme for the register, submitted as "an outline for correction".
Results of the experiments for testing Professor Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 429-52. Correspondence and reports regarding the experiments, including tables showing the distance of level of sub-soil water from surface of ground, received from Mysore, Agra, Akola, Jessore, Berhampore, Moorshedabad, and Maldah.
Collection, through the Commanders of British Vessels, of a pilgrim tax proposed by the Turkish Government
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p 277. Government of India inform the Foreign Department of a notice placed in the Gazette of India announcing the agreement of the Government to the proposals of the Ottoman Board of Health to levy a tax on pilgrims travelling to the Hejaz, despite the objections registered by the Government.
Petition requesting amendment of the Native Passenger Ships and Steam Vessels Act (XII of 1870)
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pp 17-19. Petition received from Hajee Mahomed Seedick, and other ship-owners, requesting changes to Act XII of 1870, as it makes their shipping routes unprofitable and unable to compete with steamers, who are not bound by the restrictions on passenger space. Plus correspondence thereon from the ...
