Explanation of Surgeon-Major Borah regarding the transfer of moribund patients from the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum to the Charitable Dispensary
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pp 15-27. Correspondence regarding the adoption of the practice at the Tezpur Asylum, and of the practice of excluding the deaths of transferred patients from the Asylum's returns. Includes report by the Superintendent of the Asylum providing details of cases sent to the Charitable Dispensary for...
Proposed abolition of one of the three appointments of Superintendent of Vaccination and Deputy Sanitary Commissioner in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, and the creation of an appointment of Resident Medical Officer at the Rangoon General Hospital
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pp 423-35. Correspondence. Includes brief history of the vaccination arrangements in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.
Results of the trial fo the Buisson Bath treatment for rabies at Allahabad, Ferozepore and Sialkote
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pp 969-70. Fleet Paymaster F E Pirkis [who originally recommended the treatment to the Government of India] comments on the results of the treatment trials.
Memorials from certain officers regarding the displacement of Europeans by Indian Medical Officers as Civil Surgeons
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pp 137-48. Government of the Punjab forward to the Government of India a list of memorials received from various officers regarding the proposals to strengthen provision of an Indian civil medical service; plus copy memorial from a Judge of the Punjab Chief Court, regarding Indian Medical Officer...
pp 375-79. Colonel J P Nixon [John Pigott], Her Majesty's Consul General, Baghdad, forwards copy telegrams regarding the imposition of quarantine in Baghdad as a result of an outbreak of plague, and declaring Bussorah [Al-Basrah] to be infected. Telegrams received from: Syud Mahomed Redif, Govern...
Imposition of quarantine on arrivals from the Persian Gulf
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pp 541-44. Copy telegrams received from Colonel Nixon, Consul-General in Baghdad; and Messrs Gray, Dawes and Company, Agents, British India Steam Navigation Company, regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq], the imposition of quarantine, and competition in shipping with the Khedive'...
Further reports on the endemic skin diseases of India
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Communication from the Deputy Surgeon-General, Presidency Circle, Bengal, to the Government of India, forwarding four reports on skin disease in response to the circular by Drs Tilbury Fox and Farquhar.