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Asst Surgeon R H England visit to Shevaroy and Chundamungalam Hills
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Asst Surgeon R H England appointed to visit the Shevaroy and Chundamungalam [Sendamangalam] hills [Kollaimalai Hills] in order to report on their medical topography.
Reports from various superintendents of vaccination in the hill districts of Bengal concerning the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine
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No. 19. Communication from the Bengal Medical Board to the Government of India, requesting that they be sent lymph and crusts taken from children vaccinated with fresh lymph from England during the months October - December. Enclosing the following reports on vaccination: Dr Stewart, Superintend...
Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India directed to proceed to the Cantonments and Camps where cholera is now prevalent, with a view to making investigations
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pp 1065-66. To proceed to Saugor, Jubbulpore, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Fyzabad, Agra and Morar.
Compilation of data from the three Presidencies of India regarding the prevalence of cholera and the dates of its appearance among emigrants on board ship
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pp 825-26. Communication from J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, requesting that data be compiled in the enclosed form.
Measures to be adopted for testing Professor Max von Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
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pp 871-77. J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, requests Drs Cunningham and Lewis prepare a memorandum of Pettenkofer's theory of cholera aetiology and transmission, and proposes an investigation into its veracity. Copy of the memorandum enclosed, plus diagram of app...
Replies by the Army Sanitary Commission to questions concerning sanitary improvement in India stations, posed by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kyd regarding the cultivation of the prickly pear and cochineal insect; plus recording meteorological and agricultural information
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No. 19, Letter from Lieutenant Coloneal Robert Kyd dated 08 Sep 1788. [pp 258-346] Kyd discusses the expedition of Thiery de Menonville to Guaxaca to retrieve samples of the prickly pear and cochineal insect. The letter contains extensive extracts from Nicolas-Joseph Thiery de Menonville, Traité...
Reports on the medical topography of the Shevaroy and Chundamungalam [Sendamangalam] hills
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pp 2715-2838. Communication from the Medical Board to the Governor in Council, discussing the medico-topographical surveys conducted in the hills, comparing them to Bangalore and the Nilgiris, and recommending that the surveys be discontinued. The Board forward the following: An anonymous articl...