Establishment of sanatoria for treatment of patients suffering from tubercular diseases
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pp 477-535. Communications sent by the Presidency and Provincial Governments regarding the need for sanatoria for the treatment of tubercular diseases, including the following enclosures: Report of the Consumptives' Homes Societies for the first year ending 31 May 1910 Report Tuberculosis in Kas...
Rules for determining the presence of organic matter in water
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pp 1061-63. Government of Madras forward communication from Surgeon-Major J L Ranking, Sanitary Commissioner, regarding rules to be adopted regarding tests for the analysis of potable waters. Discusses the methods proposed by Ranking, and those of Messrs Wanklyn and Chapman, championed by Dr Macn...
Analyses of the potable waters in the Madras Presidency
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pp 01-13. Correspondence, enclosing: Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on analyses of Indian watersNotes by Dr R A Smith, with reference to the analytic examination of waters in Northern India, described in Dr Macnamara's Report, - dated 1st February 1869
Proposed quarantine at Suez for all vessels arriving from India
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pp 315-19. Secretary of State forwards copy telegrams regarding the Egyptian Board of Health proposals to impose quarantine restrictions at Suez on vessels arriving from India without a clean bill of health, because of concerns arising from the famine in India. Received from Major-General Edward ...
Alleged cure for dysentery discovered by Mr George A White
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Correspondence regarding White's alleged cure, using the sesamum indicum. Includes instructions for preparing the treatment, and copy testimonies forwarded by White. Order of the Governor General in Council that the treatment be trialled.
Dr Beatson's mangement of the Nagpur Lunatic Asylum
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Correspondence regarding the operation of the asylum under the superintendence of Surgeon Major W B Beatson, primarily focusing on the pregnancy of a patient. The correspondence provides detail about the day to day running of the asylum.
Comment on the Lahore Medical School entrance criteria and syllabus
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Letter from the Government of India to the Government of the Punjab, regarding the level of English required to attend to the medical school, and the possibility of focusing on practical medicine.
Conveyance by rail of persons suffering from contagious diseases
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pp 09-16. Comprising: Memorandum by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, remarking on the views expressed by different Railway Companies in the Bengal Presidency regarding the draft rules. Cuningham considers each rule and the responses to them in sequence. Correspo...
Water-supply and drainage scheme for the City of Lahore
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pp 69-76. Correspondence between the Governments of the Punjab and India, plus Report of the Committee appointed to report on the general form of the project for the Drainage of the City of Lahore, and comments thereon by Sanitary Commissioner De Renzy.