pp 239-57. Correspondence regarding the proposed International Sanitary Convention designed to give practical effect to the conclusions of the Vienna Sanitary Conference 1874, and the measures implemented following the Constantinople Sanitary Conference 1866. Discusses research into cholera; qua...
Working of the quarantine rules in Burma and Madras
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pp 535-601. Dispatch to the Secretary of State regarding the working of Quarantine Rules under Act I of 1870 in the ports of Burma and Madras, comprising: Communications and reports forwarded by the Chief Commissioner of British Burma, including comments from Surgeons, Health Officers and port o...
Collection, through the Commanders of British Vessels, of a pilgrim tax proposed by the Turkish Government
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p 277. Government of India inform the Foreign Department of a notice placed in the Gazette of India announcing the agreement of the Government to the proposals of the Ottoman Board of Health to levy a tax on pilgrims travelling to the Hejaz, despite the objections registered by the Government.
(2969-73) Letter from James Anderson to Government of Madras, 20 Oct 1789, quoting Hugh Hunter’s account of cochineal insects transported from Barbados to Bristol in 1760 by being attached to living plants. Requests that Court of Directors in London be informed of this method of transportation. ...
pp 273-83. Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs forwards to Sir Louis Mallet copy correspondence regarding coal steamers carrying pilgrim traffic, their use of the Suez canal, and relevant shipping regulations. Includes correspondence from A Anson, Administrator of the Straits Settlements...
Proposed levy of a tax upon pilgrims to the Hedjaz [Hejaz]
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pp 219-220. Secretary of State forwards a proposal from the Turkish Board of Health that a tax of ten piastres be levied on pilgrims proceeding from India to the Hedjaz and Yemen, plus correspondence thereon. Plus reply from the Government of India, who do not believe that they should be seen to ...
Proposed participation of India in the Second International Conference on Leprosy which is to be held at Bergen in August 1909
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pp 449-55. Communication from the Secretary of State, forwarding invitation for a representative from India to attend the conference, plus enclosed provisional programme.
Delay which occurred in telegraphing to Suez intelligence of the insanitary condition of the French steamer Corrèze bound for that port from Aden
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pp 239-52. Correspondence and telegrams, plus copy report by Dr Dacorogna, Sanitary Officer at the Gebel Tor, reporting to the Egyptian Board of Health the sanitary history of the Corrèze from her leaving Saigon to arriving at Suez.