Twelve persons are sent from Madras to Canton as live carriers of the cowpox vaccine, but find that their services are not required, the vaccine having been obtained from Manila (includes a list of the carriers, p 23).
Establishment of a dispensary in Black Town for the sale of drugs and medicines
Scope & Content:
Establishment of a dispensary in Black Town for the sale of drugs and medicines. Assistant Surgeon William Eugene Edward Conwell is appointed Superintendent.
Precautionary measures taken at Calcutta in view of the possible introduction of the plague by ships from the Red Sea; appointment of a Board of Health etc.
Abandonment of the plan to build a new lunatic asylum in Calcutta in consequence of measures being adopted for sending insane patients back to England, (includes a list of patients in the Calcutta Lunatic Asylum in September 1818, who are to be sent home, with remarks, pp 104-05)
Measures taken to check the spread of an epidemic of 'cholera spasmodica' at Madras - (includes printed extracts from the correspondence of the Madras Medical Board, giving case histories etc. pp 5-18, and a printed extract of the Government Gazette Extraordinary for 22 Oct 1818, p 48)