Imposition of quarantine on arrivals from the Persian Gulf
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pp 541-44. Copy telegrams received from Colonel Nixon, Consul-General in Baghdad; and Messrs Gray, Dawes and Company, Agents, British India Steam Navigation Company, regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq], the imposition of quarantine, and competition in shipping with the Khedive'...
pp 241-43. Government of Bombay forward report by the Municipal Commissioner regarding the analyses of potable waters in Bombay, carried out on the drinking water wells believed to have been the source of the 1870 cholera epidemic. Encloses copy of Dr L B Lyon's analysis [Chemical Analyser, Bombay].
Army Sanitary Commission remarks on various reports
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pp 301-14. Comprising: Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras, 1872. Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for the Central Provinces, 1872. Remarks on the Report of the Chemical Analyser to the Government of Bombay for 1872-73.
pp 245-96. Communication from the Government of Bombay to the Government of India, 03 Dec 1873, forwarding: Report of T B Johnstone, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, 16 Aug 1872, providing a short description of the accomodation on the island, with a sketch map of the positions of the vari...