Papers regarding the high incidence of scurvy among the invalids and time-expired soldiers of H M Service returning to England on the ship Asia in 1838/39 - report by the Company's Examining Physician in London, Dr J R Hume, etc
Equipment, stores and supplies for EIC ships to transport troops; instructions from Bengal Govt for assistance to expeditionary force in capture of Mauritius; preparations for expedition to Mauritius and Reunion; stores supplied for squadron off Mauritius; arming of ships; disposal of effects of ...
A journal (log book) of the second voyage of the East India Company ship Ilchester, recorded by the Captain of the ship John Tedd. The daily entries are dated 30 December 1749 to 7 October 1751. The journal includes the following inscriptions (on folio 1): ‘This is my Original Journal John Ted...
Collection 425/742 Operations against "Mad Mullah" (Dervishes) at Las Korai (Somaliland); despatch of double company of 58th Vaughan's Rifles; outbreak of scurvy among troops.
Collection 425/1110 Part 1 Prevalence of scurvy among troops in Mesopotamia; Lister Institute memorandum on Indian anti-scorbutics; ration committee's reports and correspondence; Colonel Hehir's recommendations for improving medical and sanitary efficiency on field service.
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 123 of 1846, dated 15 October 1846. The enclosures are numbered 3-20. Enclosure Nos. 3-16 and 18 are dated 21 September to 10 October 1846, and...
Outbreaks of scurvy on board ships sailing form the ports of Bassein and Rangoon
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p 923. Communications received from the Board of Trade and Secretary of State, expressing concerns that bad water obtained at ports is causing the disease.
Outbreaks of scurvy on certain vessels supposed to have been due to the water taken on board at Bassein
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pp 31-36. Reports and correspondence regarding outbreaks of scurvy on the ships Nereus and Mallowdale, sailing from Bassein in July and August 1879 respectively.
Outbreak of scurvy on board the Janet Cowan attributed to the bad quality of the water supplied at Bassein
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p 105. Marine Department forward report by William Spooner, Medical Inspector, remarking on the appearance of scurvy on vessels departing from Bassein and Rangoon, and the case of the Janet Cowan; plus comments thereon by the Marine Department.
