Anticipated imposition of quarantine in the Red Sea on account of alleged prevalence of cholera at Madras
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pp 215-23. Secretary of State forwards copy correspondence regarding the imposition of quarantine by the Egyptian Sanitary Board on ships proceeding from Madras, due to suspected epidemic cholera. Alternative arrangements for mail steamers are discussed, including the possibility of sending steam...
Result of the experiments made with the alleged remedy for snake-bite supplied by the King of Siam
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Contains a report by Surgeon A J Wall, member of the Snake Poison Commission, detailing the experiments with "two small pieces of a root of a tree with a slightly aromatic odour".
Suggestions made by Moulvie Syud Imdad Ali, Khan Bahadur, for removing the hardships to which pilgrims to Mecca are subjected
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pp 153-54. Government of Bengal forward a communication received from Moulvie Syud Imdad Ali, providing a short account of his own pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; his meeting with the Grand Sheriff of Mecca and Excellency Nashiz Pasha, Governor of the Hejaz; his two week-stay in Bombay; and sugge...
Question of the applicability of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 to the pilgrim traffic in the East
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pp 359-63. Communication from the Government of India to the Secretary of State for India, regarding the applicability of section 230 of the Merchant Shipping Act to pilgrim vessels, and the provision of medical assistance on board ships. Includes discussion of the mortality sustained on the stea...
Remarks on the working of the Contagious Diseases Act (XIV of 1868) in light of its proposed amendment
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pp 187-261. Correspondence and reports received from local administrations regarding the working of the Contagious Diseases Act. The reports are rich in statistical information. Includes Report of the Committee of Inquiry assembled at Calcutta under the orders of the Government of India, examin...
Report on the Government Cinchona Plantation in Bengal, and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1884-1885
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pp 207-19. Contains: Twenty-third Annual Report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim by Surgeon-Major G King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. Annual report of the Government Quinologist, Surgeon-Major G King, for 1884-1885. Resolution of the Government of...
Alleged inoculation by Waldemar Haffkine with cholera virus of 250 children in the Elementary Schools at Agra
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p 483. Communications between the Government of India and the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, regarding the inoculation of 53 pupils at St Peter's college, Agra.
Report by E H Hankin, Chemical Examiner and Bacteriologist to the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, on his method of isolating enteric microbes from water and other substances
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pp 2249-57.Copy of E H Hankin, On the detection of the bacillus typhi abdominalis in water and other substances, prepared from the Government Laboratory, Agra.