Annual report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1879-80
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Containing: Eighteenth Annual Report and Returns of the Government Cinchona Plantations in British Sikkim by Surgeon Major George King; Report of the Quinologist for 1879-80; Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the above.
Comment on the reports of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for 1879-80
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p 443. Letter from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General regarding Dr King's recommendations following his visit to Java, the proposal to encourage private enterprise in cinchona cultivation in new localities, and his preference for Government to extend current plantations rath...
Dr George King's report on the Java Cinchona Plantation
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pp 9-16. Report of George King, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, on his visit to inspect Dutch cinchona plantations in Java, and investigations into the cultivation of cinchona calisaya; letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal, regarding guidance for the I...
Regarding the Bengal Vaccination Report for 1878-79
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Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the [smallpox] vaccination report for Bengal, plus letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal regarding the Bengal vaccine establishment.
Use of calisaya bark from Sikkim, and the manufacture of alkaloids from the succirubra bark
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Letter from Fort William to the Secretary of State to India regarding the use of calisaya bark from Sikkim and the experiments with mixed alkaloids conducted by C H Wood, Government Quinologist. Enclosing a letter from Dr George King to the Government of Bengal regarding the same.
pp 153-235. Reports collated by provincial Indian Governments and Administrations, to determine: the extent to which leprosy exists among the people in each district; if localised, the locality in which it is chiefly found; the special peculiarities of such localities, if there are any; the spec...
Correspondence regarding the report on the Government cinchona plantation at British Sikkim for 1878
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pp 143-44. Correspondence regarding the satisfactory report, enclosing a letter from J Eliot Howard regarding the supply of raw materials to manufacture sulphate of quinine and Mr Wood's mixed cinchona alkaloids.
Trial of cinchona febrifuge in the Madras Presidency
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pp 75-79. Correspondence regarding trials of the cinchona febrifuge from Sikkim, and its possible substitution for 75 percent of the supply of quinine in Madras Presidency.
Report on the efficacy of the cinchona febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee
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pp 81-87. Compiled reports on the efficacy of the cinchona febrifuge manufactured at Rungbee in the Sikkim cinchona plantations, including statements comparing its effects on European and Native patients, and comments on the trial with the mixed alkaloids (quinine, cinchonine and cinchonidine).
Introduction of the cinchona febrifuge into the civil hospitals and dispensaries in the North-Western Provinces
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pp 103-06. Correspondence and abstracts of reports regarding the introduction of the cinchona febrifuge in the North-Western Presidencies, and comparing the efficacy of the febrifuge with quinine and other preparations.