The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 30 September 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of furth...
Correspondence regarding an investigation by William Augustus Gott into the products and commerce of the Naini Tal and Almora Districts with special reference to the supply of timber and hemp seeds
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[pp 1-2] Extract of Public letter from Bengal in the Department of the Ceded Provinces, dated 20th October 1803, regarding the appointment of W A Gott to carry out an investigation into the products of the countries situated beyond the Hills bordering on Rohilkhand, and of the commerce carried o...
Papers regarding Act XXIV of 1843, An Act for the better prevention of the Crime of Dacoity
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A printed copy of the Act is included within the papers. The papers also include printed copies of statements by three Kechuck Jemadars named Fuqeera, Nahandeea and Behadoor, made before Captain Marsh, Assistant to the Superintendent in the Thuggee [Thagi] Department; and a printed copy of the...
Measures taken to introduce smallpox vaccination in Bengal Presidency
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Measures taken to introduce the practice of vaccination against smallpox in the Bengal Presidency. Cowpox to be introduced to Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen], Sumatra, by orphan children sent out from Bengal. Question of introducing vaccination to New South Wales and China.
Report on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency
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Favourable report by Dr William Russell on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency in the year 1813 - vaccination work by Surgeon Bernard Reilly in Fatehgarh and by the Reverend Felix Carey at Rangoon.
Proposed establishment of a Fever Hospital at Calcutta, Vol 1
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Proposed establishment of a Fever Hospital at Calcutta, Vol 1 (includes, on pp 15-39, a copy of Dr James Ranald Martin's 'Topographical Notes on the state of Calcutta and its Suburbs')
This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2174/105546. It is the thirtieth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: t...
