Quarantine rules framed by the Government of Bombay
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pp 313-18. Government of Bombay submit Rules relating to Quarantine for the ports of Bombay [Mumbai], Kurrachee [Karachi], Aden and Karwar; and extract thereon from a Report by the Health Officer, Bombay. Plus communication from the Government of India noting their concern over the proposals.
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'...
Proposed quarantine at Suez for all vessels arriving from India
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pp 315-19. Secretary of State forwards copy telegrams regarding the Egyptian Board of Health proposals to impose quarantine restrictions at Suez on vessels arriving from India without a clean bill of health, because of concerns arising from the famine in India. Received from Major-General Edward ...
pp 419-29. Comprising: Communication from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent and Consul-General in Baghdad, reporting on the plague, quarantine, and the potential impact on the wool trade, and enclosing: Report by Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, on his investigation into pla...
Proposed establishment of a quarantine station at Aden
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pp 301-09. Correspondence regarding the proposal of the Political Resident at Aden to establish a quarantine station at Aden, plus reports regarding the health of the pilgrims and crew of the steamer Otterburn. Comprising letters received from Major-General C B Temenheere, Political Resident at ...
Quarantine at Suez and proceedings of the Political Resident at Aden
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pp 49-50. Government of Bombay forward communication from the Political Resident at Aden regarding the information that the ports on the Arabian Coast of the Red Sea are considered by the Egyptian Government as infected, and that vessels arriving from such are subjected to ten days quarantine; al...
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...
Position of J M Cuningham on the use of quarantine as a preventive against the spread of cholera
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pp 41-42. Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, forwards a statement arguing that quarantine is useless as a means of preventing the spread of cholera, and should be prohibited.