Comments on annual statistical returns of Lunatic Asylums in India for the year 1901
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pp 567-93. Remarks and resolutions by Presidency and Provincial Governments regarding the statistics of asylums within their jurisdiction; plus copy of the statistical returns of asylums in Madras for 1901.
pp 595-99. Correspondence regarding the distribution of Calmette's serum by the Plague Research Laboratory, and the supply of dried snake venom to Calmette.
Reports of the Pasteur Institute at Kasuali; plus correspondence
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pp 223-73. Copy of the First Annual Report of the Central Committee of the Pasteur Institute of India; the First Annual Report of the Pasteur Institute of India, Kasauli; plus correspondence regarding the secondment of an Officer of the Indian Medical Service to the Institute.
Report of the successful treatment of a snake-bitten patient with injections of stychnine according to Dr Mueller's method
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pp 399-405. Secretary for Berar forwards a report by Civil Surgeon O W Jones, Wun District, providing details of a successfully treated case of snake-bite using strychnine.
Establishment of a provincial Bacteriological Laboratory for the Madras Presidency and the appointment of a Provincial Health Officer to be superintendent of it
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pp 451-58. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Government of Madras.
Answer to a Parliamentary question relating to the statistics in regard to the prevalence of cancer in India
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pp 1043-49. Secretary of State forwards two statements in response to Parliamentary questions: Total number of cases of cancer and their percentage to the total number of other diseases treated in the dispensaries and medical institutions in the several ProvincesAdmissions and deaths from cancer...
Report by Mr E H Aitken suggesting measures for the reduction of malaria
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pp 1063-71. Report by E H Aitken, Chief Account Officer of Customs, Salt and Opium, reporting on his tour of the Goa Frontier, his observations and recommendations; plus accompanying correspondence.
pp 893-903. Government of India circulate copies [enclosed] of reports received from Uganda concerning sleeping sickness, and Dr Hodge's researches into the filaria perstans. Includes tables of mortality for districts within Myoro [Yangoma].
Proposal for (1) the transfer of medical establishments in Rangoon from the Municipal Committee to Government, and (2) the revision of the staff of the Rangoon General Hospital
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pp 905-34. Correspondence, including detailed description of the running of the hospital and details of staffing and expenditure.