Scheme for the extension of bacteriological work in India
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pp 1559-66. Circular from the Government of India to the Provincial and Presidency Governments regarding the need to apply modern scientific methods to the study of diseases in India; plus Note on the bacteriological requirements for India by the Director General, Indian Medical Service.
Methods of analysis pursued by the Government Chemical Analysts in India for the detection of the presence of bhang and ganja when made up for consumption with other vegetable substances
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pp 1517-30. Letters received by the Government of India from the various provincial Chemical Examiners, detailing their methods for detecting bhang and ganja [cannabis].
Report by E H Hankin, Chemical Examiner and Bacteriologist to the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, on his method of isolating enteric microbes from water and other substances
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pp 2249-57.Copy of E H Hankin, On the detection of the bacillus typhi abdominalis in water and other substances, prepared from the Government Laboratory, Agra.
Report of the Special Committee appointed to inquire into the dietary arrangements of the Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta
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pp 1275-1310. Government of Bengal forward for information a copy of the report, which includes lists of crockery and equipment; food price tables; copy Rules for the guidance of Medical Officers, Medical Subordinates, Ward Masters, Nurses, Patients and Servants; list of proscribed and allowed st...
Engagement of ten doctors for temporary plague duty in India
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pp 1403-19. Correspondence, plus details of the ten doctors [name, qualifications, posting]; extract of an article published in The Lancet of 27 May 1899, critical of the treatment of those on temporary plague duty; plus copy [blank] Memorandum of Agreement form.
pp 2235-38. Report Mode of Treatment of the Jigger [translation from the German] by Dr Beeper [also given as Becker], Principal Medical Officer to the Imperial Troops in German East Africa.