Papers regarding the progress of vaccination in the Bombay Presidency; outbreak of a smallpox epidemic in Bombay city; report on the causes and origins of the disease in the city of Surat; report of Dr D White.
Abandonment of the plan to build a new lunatic asylum in Calcutta in consequence of measures being adopted for sending insane patients back to England, (includes a list of patients in the Calcutta Lunatic Asylum in September 1818, who are to be sent home, with remarks, pp 104-05)
Trial and conviction of several natives of the Northern Konkan for murdering persons deemed to be sorcerers and responsible for the recent cholera outbreak - they are subsequently all pardoned with the exception of one who is transported to Penang for life.
Papers regarding the privileges of the family and dependants of the Nabob of the Carnatic
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to legal actions taken against members of the Nabob's family, and the question of their exemption from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Madras Presidency. Includes lists of the family and dependants of the Nabob exempted from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court ...
Papers regarding certain modifications and augmentations to the Office Establishment of the Political Commissioner for Gujarat, and the appointment of Assistant Surgeon Larkins to the post of civil surgeon to the Baroda Residency
Scope & Content:
Includes a list of the persons entitled to medical aid from the Residency surgeon at Baroda, pp.23-25
Condition and management of Insane Hospitals in the Bengal Presidency, Vol 2
Scope & Content:
The Collection consists of 190 pages of correspondence and reports relating to the Insane Hospitals in the Bengal Presidency. The correspondence in the Collection is mostly concerned with the condition of the Insane Hospitals at Russa and Bhowanipore [Bhowanipur], and a proposal for the construc...
