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.
Anticipated imposition of quarantine in the Red Sea on account of alleged prevalence of cholera at Madras
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pp 215-23. Secretary of State forwards copy correspondence regarding the imposition of quarantine by the Egyptian Sanitary Board on ships proceeding from Madras, due to suspected epidemic cholera. Alternative arrangements for mail steamers are discussed, including the possibility of sending steam...
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 41-61. Correspondence between the Government of Bengal and the Military Department regarding the duties and responsibilities of civil officers in regard to the working of lock hospitals in Cantonments.
Inclusion in the annual report of the Sanitary Commissioner of the Bombay Presidency of the statistics of sickness and mortality among European troops in Bombay
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pp 33-36. Communication from T G Hewlett, Acting Sanitary Commissioner, Bombay, plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Explanation on the points noticed by the Government of India in the Oudh Sanitary Report for 1875 and the report on vaccination for 1875-76
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pp 37-40. Comments by Surgeon Major A Garden, Sanitary Commissioner, Oudh, including comparative statement showing the number of persons primarily vaccinated and the number of those persons who were successfully vaccinated in the Province of Oudh in each of the under-mentioned years.