pp 377-87. Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwards reports received from Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, plus memoranda of proceedings of the Board of Health at Teheran [Tehran], submitted by Sir Joseph R L Dickson. The reports include details about the...
Proposed extension of Clause 7, Section 19 of Act XXII of 1864 to the Cantonment of Dalhousie and its neighbourhood
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pp 389-93. Correspondence regarding the difficulties in extending the provisions of the act to cover female labourers employed on public works in the vicinity of the soldiers' barracks.
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.
Crowded state of the mail steamers belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Company when carrying Indian passengers
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pp 225-27. Correspondence regarding alleged overcrowding, plus List of British India Steam Navigation Company's Steamers that arrived from the Persian Gulf during the year 1876-77, showing ship name, tonnage, and the number of deck passengers.
Outbreak of plague in Turkish Arabia and the quarantine arrangements which have been made for preventing the spread of the disease
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pp 153-71. Copy communications forwarded to the Home Department regarding the outbreak of plague at Baghdad, Tehran, along the Euphrates and the Tigris, quarantine arrangements and other measures - disinfection, destruction of woollen goods - taken to prevent its spread. Includes reports and te...
Quarantine rules drawn up for Bombay; quarantine at Aden, Kurrachee and Bombay
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pp 173-97. Papers received by the Government of India regarding the quarantine rules proposed by the Government of Bombay under Act I of 1870 [copy draft included]; plus communications received regarding the outbreak of plague in the Persian Gulf, the quarantine imposed by the Egyptian Sanitary ...