Regulations for the prevention of disease in Pilgrim Ships
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p 1. Communication from the Government of Fort St George, showing that the Madras Regulations for the prevention of disease in Pilgrim Ships are applicable to vessels of every nationality.
Arrangements made for affording Dr Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health, Constantinople, information as to the state of Public Health in India
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pp 767-69. Request that regular sanitary reports from the Bombay Presidency be submitted to the Board of Health, Constantinople, principally in regard to its arrangements for the prevention of cholera among pilgrims travelling to Mecca, and the regular journeys between Bombay, the Red Sea and the...
Regarding the adoption of certain measures to prevent the introduction of epidemic cholera into ports on the Red Sea, the coast of Arabia and the Persian Gulf, by vessels proceeding from India
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pp 145-74. Correspondence regarding measures implemented at the suggestion of the Turkish Board of Health and Dr Dickson, British Delegate to the Board. Includes copy certificate of health to be issued to ships, plus correspondence and extracts of the Madras Proceedings relating to the treatment ...
pp 603-04. Communication from Rivers Thompson, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Government of India, regarding conditions onboard the Utit Rachman Sirusker, and the bill for housing and feeding pilgrims during a stopover at Cochin.
Outbreak of cholera in the district round Bagdad [Baghdad], and the precautions respecting pilgrims which have been taken in consequence
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p 609. Report received from the Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople, reporting a cholera outbreak amongst troops stationed at Divanié, a town on the Euphrates near Bagdad. Ordered that pilgrims heading to Mecca not be allowed to proceed there until 15 days have elapsed since the last case of chol...
Sanitary and quarantine measures for ships sailing between Indian ports and those of the Red Sea
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pp 63-92. Communication from the Government of India to the Secretary of State regarding proposed precautionary measures to prevent contagion from cholera and other infectious diseases being conveyed on pilgrim and commercial vessels. Includes discussion of the Turkish Government proposals on th...
Amendment and enforcement of the Native Passenger Ship Acts, and accounts of journeys on pilgrim vessels
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pp 169-98. Copy correspondence and Proceedings forwarded to the Legislative Department, regarding the implementation of measures designed to reduce overcrowding on pilgrim vessels, and opinions on the proposed Bill to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Native Passenger Ships. Includes: S...
Overcrowding of pilgrim ships arriving at Aden from Singapore en route to Jeddah
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pp 199-204. Copy communications from the Government of Bombay; Colonel F Schneider Political Resident, Aden; and G W R Hay, Port Surgeon, Aden, regarding overcrowding on pilgrim ships S. S. Mecca and Paraguey. Includes copy License of the British Steamer Mecca, of which William Laws is Master, to...
pp 239-40. Secretary of State for India forward copy letters from E Hammond, and between Major-General Edward Stanton and the Earl Granville, regarding over-crowding on pilgrim vessels, and the possibility of extending the provisions of the Native Passenger Ships Act to include the posts of the H...
