Report of the Government Cinchona Plantation and Cinchona Factory in Bengal for the year 1886-1887
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pp 625-35. Report by Surgeon-Major George King forwarded to the Government of India, accompanied by a Resolution thereon from the Government of Bengal.
Measures to be taken for the prevention of the insect "Chigo" or "Jigger flea" [Tunga] being introduced into India from Africa
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pp 297-303. Government of India forward report by E C Cotes, Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, regarding the Tunga or Sarcopsylla penetrans, and the potential dangers of importing the insect to India [includes illustration].
Dr H Vandyke Carter's deputation to visit certain countries where leprosy prevails
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Correspondence between the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and Vandyke Carter, including the expenditure and itinerary of his tour through Italy, Algiers, Greece and Turkey.
Report on the outbreak of cholera to the north of Allahabad City, North-Western Provinces
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pp 181-86. Report by C Planck, Sanitary Commissioner with the North-Western Provinces, regarding the rise, progress, and extent of the cholera outbreak. Includes mortality and outbreak statistics. Plus remarks thereon by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
Plague deaths at Baghdad and Hillah, and the lifting of quarantine at Persian ports
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pp 379-80. Telegrams from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Resident at Turkish Arabia, reporting plague cases and deaths, and the lifting of the quarantine in Persian ports.
Results of trials with Dr H W Adams' specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea
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pp 521-23. Letters summarizing the results of trials with Dr H W Adam's specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea. Dr Adams' suggested coal and carbon diet was not tested.