Bills of Health and Quarantine Rules for ships arriving in Aden
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pp 127-29. Letter from the Government of Bombay to the Secretary of State for India, regardng the granting of Bills of Health to ships arriving at Aden from infected ports, without having received Bills of Health from the ports of departures and ports touched at en route; and the proposed establi...
Review of the Reports of the Local Sanitary Commissioners for 1870
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pp 163-78. Report submitted by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, commenting on vital statistics; the history of the chief diseases; the meteorology of the year; the food supply; the personal proceedings of the Sanitary Commissioners; sanitary progress.
Reporting decisions made during a meeting of the Egyptian Board of Health
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p 263. Letter received from C Vivian, Cairo, informing the Government of India of the quarantine periods imposed on pilgrims at the Gebel Tor and Suez, and that the land transit through Egypt is closed to pilgrims until further notice.
Report on the efficacy of the cinchona febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee
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pp 81-87. Compiled reports on the efficacy of the cinchona febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee in the Sikkim cinchona plantations, including statements comparing its effects on European and Native patients, and comments on the trial with the mixed alkaloids (quinine, cinchonine and cinchonidine).
Report on the cinchona plantation at Than-doung-gyee for the year 1879-80
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pp 195-204. Contains: Annual report by B Ribbentrop, Conservator of Forests, Pegu Circle, on the Than-doung-gyee plantation, July 1880 Memorandum by D Brandis, Inspector General of Forests, on cinchona planting on the hills east of Toungoo, 20 September 1880 Correspondence between the Government...
Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the Bengal Sanitary Report for 1877
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pp 795-811. With comments regarding the observations on cholera aetiology by Dr Crombie, and his remarks about the absence of cholera cases during the flood season. Secretary of State recommends further local investigation into the matter.
Review by the Chief Commissioner of the Coorg Medical Reports for 1880
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pp 295-97. Extracts from a review by the Chief Commissioner of Coorg, commenting on the Annual Medical and Sanitary Report, the Civil Dispensaries report, and the Vaccination report for Coorg. Provides details on climate, admissions, birth and death registration, the influx of migrant workers, an...
Re-introduction of the Contagious Diseases Act in the City of Bombay
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pp 341-56. The Government of Bombay submit report and copy despatches regarding their re-introduction of the Contagious Diseases Act. Incudes Report of the Acting Sanitary Commissioner for Bombay on the prevalence of venereal disease and the necessary measures to prevent it; copy Resolution of t...