p 213. Government of India inform the Secretary of State that plague has broken out in Baghdad, and that quarantines have been established at Busreh [Basreh] and Kifri.
p 115. Copy telegram received from the Resident at Bushire: "Mr Taylour Thomson informs me that Dr. Tholozau [Joseph-Désiré Tholozan (1820-1897)], the Shah's Physician, had declared that plague exists at Resht."
p 489. Telegram received from C Vivian, Cairo, reporting on a meeting of the Egyptian Board of Health regarding quarantine arrangements at Egyptian ports.
p 375. Telegram received from Bombay: "Nixon telegraphs - Baghdad 12th. Ottoman Board of Health have this day abolished quarantine in Turkish Arabia. Inform Government of India."
Proposed international commission on the Asiatic plague
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pp 203-04. Correspondence regarding the Austro-Hungarian proposal to establish an International Medical Commission of Enquiry into the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia.
Proposed re-arrangement of the Annual Sanitary Reports
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pp 251-353. Extensive correspondence between the Secretary of State, the Government of India, the Presidency and Provincial Governments, and a number of Sanitary Commissioner, regarding the content and layout of the Annual Sanitary Reports, and the collection and recording of vital statistics.
pp 129-41. Two letters received from the Deputy Surgeon General, Her Majesty's Indian Forces, Lucknow, reporting on the cholera in Oudh. Includes short reports received from medical officers throughout Oudh, plus statistics showing daily deaths from cholera in the District of Basti for March 1877...
Proposed International Commission of Enquiry into the plague
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pp 623-25. The Foreign Office forward copy correspondence regarding the proposed International Medical Commission of Enquiry into the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia, and the nomination of Dr [William Henry] Colvill as the representative for Her Majesty's Government.