pp 85-90. Two letters received by the Secretary of State for India from Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), former Chief Executive Officer of the First General Board of Health, England.
p 115. Copy telegram received from the Resident at Bushire: "Mr Taylour Thomson informs me that Dr. Tholozau [Joseph-Désiré Tholozan (1820-1897)], the Shah's Physician, had declared that plague exists at Resht."
Overcrowding of pilgrim vessels lying between the ports of Aden ['Adan] and Jeddah
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pp 117-20. Correspondence regarding pilgrim vessels, the Native Passenger Ships Act, and the Ottoman sanitary administration. Includes communications received from the Government of Bombay, the Secretary of State for India, the Political Resident at Aden, and the Consul at Jeddah.
pp 129-41. Two letters received from the Deputy Surgeon General, Her Majesty's Indian Forces, Lucknow, reporting on the cholera in Oudh. Includes short reports received from medical officers throughout Oudh, plus statistics showing daily deaths from cholera in the District of Basti for March 1877...
Proposed extension of the rules framed under Clause 7, Section 19 of Act XXII of 1864 [Lock Hospital Rules], to the Cantonment of Dalhousie and a surrounding areas of four miles
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pp 147-51. Correspondence thereon between the Military Department, the establishment at Dalhousie, and the Governments of India and the Punjab.
Quarantine prescribed for vessels arriving in Egypt from a suspected port
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p 677. The Consul-General at Cairo forwards copy telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt, advising that vessels arriving without a bill of health or surgeon on board will be subjected to a three day quarantine observation.
Inspection of the sanitary condition of villages in the neighbourhood of Cantonments in Bengal
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pp 643-48. Remarks on the proposed inspection regime made by J M Coates, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal; plus comments thereon by the Government of India.