Proposed amendment of the Contagious Diseases Act (XIV of 1868)
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pp 33-39. Copy communication from the Government of Bengal regarding the proposed amendments, principally concerning 1) the definition of the term "common prostitute", 2) provision for compulsory registration, and 3) powers of summary arrest for unregistered prostitution. Resolution thereon by ...
Pasteur Institute in India for the treatment of rabies
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p 467. Communication from the Secretary of State for India regarding the lines of demarcation between the functions of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli and the central bacteriological laboratory at Parel, and the funding arrangements for the former.
Discontinuance of the use of Captain Rost's Leprolin
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p1009. Government of India prohibit the further use of leprolin, even to treat private patients who believe they have derived benefit and desire continuance of treatment.
Medical Board suggests measures to remove and burn or bury the immense mass of dead and decaying vegetable matter lying in all directions about Madras, which might prove deleterious to health
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Dead and decaying matter exhibiting a powerful and hourly increasing odour, feared to be deleterious to health.
Regarding the adoption of certain measures to prevent the introduction of epidemic cholera into ports on the Red Sea, the coast of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, by vessels proceeding from India
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pp 145-74. Correspondence regarding measures implemented at the suggestion of the Turkish Board of Health and Dr Dickson, British Delegate to the Board. Includes copy certificate of health to be issued to ships, plus correspondence and extracts of the Madras Proceedings relating to the treatment ...