Means to be adopted for the more efficient working of the rules for the prevention of venereal disease at Thayetmyo
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pp 499-511. Correspondence between the Government of India and Madras Military Departments, plus reports by Surgeon General E Balfour, Indian Medical Department, Madras; Surgeon Major W R Cornish, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras; and J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of In...
Remarks on the Annual Report of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts for 1877, and on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Berar for 1876
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pp 501-15. Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Berar for 1876, in particular regarding bowel complaints, cholera, smallpox and vaccination; plus Resolution thereon by the Government of India.
Order of the Turkish Government requiring passports in future for all passengers and pilgrims arriving at Jeddah
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pp 275-77. George Goschen, Ambassador at Constantinople, forwards communication from Dr Hussein Jehur, Acting Consul at Jeddah, regarding the requirement for pilgrims arriving at Jeddah to be in possession of passports, and that those arriving without would have them issued by Turkish authoritie...
Comments on the Rules for the Regulation of Pilgrim Traffic issued by the Superior Board of Health, Constantinople
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pp 279-95. Comprising: Report on the Règlement issued by the International Sanitary Commission at Constantinople in 1880 for regulating the conveyance in ships of pilgrims, by James Zohrab, Consul at Jedda. Translation of a report by a sub-committee of the Constantinople Board of Health, made in...
Malaria investigations and preventative measures: reports and recommendations
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pp 1281-1333. Secretary of State forwards the following reports and correspondence to the Governer-General of India in Council: Circular by Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), Colonial Secretary, regarding tropical medicine; the establishment of training schools in tropical medicine; the funding fo...
Report by Drs T R Lewis and D D Cunningham on the work done by them during the quarter ending 30th June 1877
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p 367. Report on the "arrangements for conducting systematic observations... to ascertain the leading chemical changes taking place in soil-air at varying distances from the surface of the ground".
Reports by Drs T R Lewis and D D Cunningham on the fever prevalent in Bombay in the early months of the year
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pp 567-68. Reports received from Lewis and Cunningham: regarding their research into the Bombay fever and their investigations into a possible relationship with famine conditions, reporting also on the German literature; and summarising the rest of their research.
Selection of a site for, and the management of, the proposed Pasteur Institute for Southern India
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pp 1371-87. Correspondence regarding a proposed site for the institute and potential arrangements for its management, including: Extract from a memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel W G King, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras, regarding the best climate for the location of the institute, and the probl...
Proposed establishment of a central institute for the study of health problems in India
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pp 1471-1539. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Central Committee of the Pasteur Institute of India regarding the establishment of a central bacteriological laboratory for the study of health problems in India, and numerous provincial laboratories. The location of the centra...
Outbreak of plague in Turkish Arabia and the quarantine arrangements which have been made for preventing the spread of the disease
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pp 153-71. Copy communications forwarded to the Home Department regarding the outbreak of plague at Baghdad, Tehran, along the Euphrates and the Tigris, quarantine arrangements and other measures - disinfection, destruction of woollen goods - taken to prevent its spread. Includes reports and te...
