Quarantine restrictions upon vessels coming from infected ports
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pp 413-32. Comprising: Port of Calcutta, Rules for the Guidance of Running Pilots. Chief Commissioner, British Burma, Rules relating to quarantine for the ports mentioned in Schedule A [Rangoon, Moulmein, Akyab, Kyouk-Phyoo, Sandoway, Tavoy, Mergui, Bassein]. Correspondence between the Governmen...
Introduction of the Contagious Diseases Act in to certain places in Bengal and Berar
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pp 867-75. Government of Bengal forward, with comments, copy Minute by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal on the introduction of Act XIV of 1868 into Bengal and Berar. Plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Registration of sub-soil water levels to test Pettenkofer's theory of cholera
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pp 49-51. Government of Bengal request information as to whether they should continue with sub-soil water registration. Communication from the Government of India to the Presidency and Provincial Governments, ordering that registration be amended for a more extended use, and combined with informa...
Conduct of Dr De Renzy, Sanitary Commissioner with the Punjab, in publishing his Remarks on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India on the Cholera Epidemic of 1872 in Northern India
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pp 61-78. Government of the Punjab forward copy statement by A C C De Renzy regarding the circumstances surrounding the publication of his pamphlet, discussing in detail the disagreement between himself and J M Cuningham over the aetiology of cholera, and enclosing copy articles from The Lancet,...
pp 01-02. Communication from H Calvert, British Delegate to the Board of Health at Alexandria, advising that ships arriving at Suez without a bill of health, or having sustained a death mid-journey, are to be submitted to quarantine.