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.
Measures proposed by the Government of India in view to relieving the Sanitary Commissioners in India of statistical duties
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pp 71-74. Resolution of the Government of India. Separate compilation of jail statistics to be discontinued, and compiled instead by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
Establishment of a quarantine station at Bassidore [Bāsa'īdū]
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pp 75-84. Correspondence and copy telegrams regarding the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf; quarantine measures adopted by the Egyptian Sanitary Board; initial plans for temporarily moving the Bushire Residency to Bassidore and establishing a quarantine; the trade of...
pp 85-90. Two letters received by the Secretary of State for India from Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), former Chief Executive Officer of the First General Board of Health, England.
p 115. Copy telegram received from the Resident at Bushire: "Mr Taylour Thomson informs me that Dr. Tholozau [Joseph-Désiré Tholozan (1820-1897)], the Shah's Physician, had declared that plague exists at Resht."
Overcrowding of pilgrim vessels lying between the ports of Aden ['Adan] and Jeddah
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pp 117-20. Correspondence regarding pilgrim vessels, the Native Passenger Ships Act, and the Ottoman sanitary administration. Includes communications received from the Government of Bombay, the Secretary of State for India, the Political Resident at Aden, and the Consul at Jeddah.