Proposed changes to the establishment of the Plague Research Laboratory, Bombay
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pp 917-30. Correspondence: a) arrangements in the Bombay Plague Laboratory on the return of Mr Haffkine from leave; b) retention of Major W B Bannerman in the laboratory; c) proposed permanent engagement of Dr F M Gibson.
Remarks on the Annual Reports on the Bengal Medical Schools for 1905-1906
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pp 1167-72. Remarks of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals on the reports for the Campbell Medical School, Calcutta; the Temple Medical School, Patna; the Orissa Medical School, Cuttack; and the Dacca Medical School.
Remarks of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India upon the report by Dr W R Cornish on cholera in the Madras Presidency
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pp 51-52. Remarks by J M Cunningham on W R Cornish, Cholera in Southern India: a record of progress of cholera in 1870 and resume of the records of former epidemic invasions of the Madras Presidency, requesting Cornish's opinion on the theories of Dr James L Bryden.
Comments by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India on the dry-earth system of sewage
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p 803. Comments by J M Cunningham on the memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the dry-earth sewage system, recommending that Jubbulpore be selected as a location to test improvements, and calling for returns from Military stations such as Luknow, Allahabad, Meerut and Jubbulpore to show ...
Remarks on Dr Cutcliffe's Report on the condition of certain Districts in the Meerut Division
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pp 879-83. Remarks of J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, on the report submitted by Dr Cutliffe on the sanitary condition in Meerut [see related descriptions].
Suggestion by the Army Sanitary Commission for carrying out investigations into cholera prevention in certain marked endemic localities
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pp 887-89. Correspondence regarding a memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on the Report of the Madras Cholera Committee: Letter from J Murray, Inspector General of Hospitals, Indian Medical Department, regarding the memorandum, the impact of sanitary improvement on cholera occurance, morb...
Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the eighth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
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pp 65-85. Includes a particularly detailed discussion of Appendix C, Microscopical and Physiological Researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing Cholera.
Scheme for the establishment of Medical Research Laboratories for the study of health problems in India
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pp 161-65. Correspondence regarding the proposal to establish bacteriological research laboratories throughout India, with a central institute. Recommends that the institute be stationed at Bombay, possibly at Parel house with the Plague Research Laboratory, as opposed to at Mukhtesar.
Report on the treatment of snake-bite with Sir Lauder Brunton's lancets and permanganate of potash
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pp 275-76. Report received from Lieutenant-Colonel W B Bannerman, Director, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, reporting his findings of treating snake-bite in dogs with permangonate of potash, both locally and intravenously. Bannerman believes the latter treatment to be highly dangerous, and rec...
