Papers related to study of hookworm disease in India and Ceylon. Also discussions on proposal made by the Rockefeller International Health Commission on the subject of sending a commission to India to study public health and protozoology.
Papers dealing with the extension of area under cinchona cultivation and possibility of manufacturing cheap quinine for war supplies. Includes booklet in Dutch titled, "Kina-Overeenkomst" (translated as "Quinine Agreement"); figures showing Cinchona bark imports from 1911 to 1917, into India.
Papers dealing with the subject of increasing area under flax in India. Includes agreement declaring the formation of a committee to investigate the question increasing the supply of flax in the British Empire; list of names of members of the Committee on Flax; a booklet titled, " Some Notes on ...
Papers dealing with sale of Indian opium to morphia manufacturers. Includes Report on the Opium Factory, Ghazipur by W. A. Davis, Indigo Research Chemist to the Government of India as well as figures showing recent of shipment of Opium from India.
Papers related to the proposal to manufacture salt in Bengal. Includes Extracts from the Gazette of India, dated September 22, 1917 as well as from The Calcutta Gazette, dated January 9, 1918.