The Madras Government bring to the notice of the Court of Directors a paper by Surgeon William Eugene Edward Conwell defending the treatment of cholera by the British authorities in India.
Suggestion of the Bengal Medical Board that the experimental sanatorium at Cherrapunji should be used only by Eurasian and native insane patients and not by Europeans; includes report of Assistant Surgeon William Rhodes (pp 7-18).
Unsuccessful attempt by the Bengal Government to persuade the Bombay Government to abolish Lock Hospitals throughout the Bombay Presidency (includes the observations of William Augustus Burke, Inspector General of Hospitals of H.M. Forces in India, pp 71-83, and returns showing the prevalence of ...
Quarantine measures taken at Madras after information had been received from Bombay of the outbreak of plague at Bushire in March 1832 - proposal of the Bengal Government that there should be a uniform quarantine system in all the Indian ports, corresponding as far as possible to H.M. Order in Co...
Report on convalescent patients treated at the Nilgilri Hills by Robert Baikie, Thomas George Stephenson, and James Strachan
Scope & Content:
Lists of Public Officers and Establishments in the Nilgiri Hills, with their salaries and allowances - returns of convalescent patients with remarks regarding same; plus reports by: Dr Robert Baikie on the beneficial climate etc. of the Nilgiris (pp 57-120) Dr Thomas George Stephenson (pp 121-6...
Measures taken in Bengal to prevent the possible introduction of the plague on ships from the Persian Gulf - temporary establishment of quarantine stations at Diamond Harbour and Chittagong (includes lists of Arab ships, with particulars, pp 90-91, 481-82, coloured plans of the quarantine station...
Establishment of an experimental sanatorium at Cherrapunji in the Khasi Hills
Scope & Content:
Establishment of an experimental sanatorium at Cherrapunji in the Khasi Hills - plan to establish a cantonment for European troops there - grants of land at Cherrapunji on 99 year leases etc. Vol 1 (includes sketch map of route from Gauhati to Nongkhlao by Lieutenant Richard Wilcox, on pp 232-33,...