Difference of opinion between the Collector of Malabar and the Civil Surgeon of Calicut as to the classification of deaths during 1875-1876
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p. 235. Regarding a disease which the Collector identified as cholera, but which the Civil Surgeon recorded under the heading 'bowel complaints' in the annual reports. Government of India express their view that Madras had suffered from a particularly bad cholera epidemic that year.
Analysis of red cinchona bark; and consignment made over to Messrs Howards, who extracted from it 803lbs of febrifuge
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pp 187-88. Dispatch from the Secretary of State, informing the Governor General that 200 bags of red cinchona bark were made over to Messrs Howards, who extracted from it 803lbs of febrifuge. The letter also forwards copies of the following: Report of Dr B H Paul, London Analytical Laboratory, o...
A short account of the introduction of Cinchona into Southern India, its cultivation and the preparation of the bark
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pp 125-33. Communication from the Revenue and Agricultural Department, forwarding for information a short account of the introduction of cinchona to Southern India, including a descriptive catalogue of specimens of woods, barks etc., and an analysis of different kinds of barks grown on the Govern...
Offer by the Lille Pasteur Institute to receive and instruct two or three officers of the Indian Medical Service in the preparation and use of Pasteur's anti-snake bite serum
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pp 1201-06. Correspondence, plus comments on the study of bacteriology in British medical education, and orders thereon.
Deputation of Lieutenants H J Walton and S R Douglas of the Indian Medical Service to Kumaun and Garhwal to make investigation into the Mahamari disease
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pp 715-21.Correspondence between the Indian Plague Commission, the Government of India and the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, regarding the investigation to determine the relationship between the mahamari disease and the plague.
Methods of analysis pursued by the Government Chemical Analysts in India for the detection of the presence of bhang and ganja when made up for consumption with other vegetable substances
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pp 1517-30. Letters received by the Government of India from the various provincial Chemical Examiners, detailing their methods for detecting bhang and ganja [cannabis].
