Introduction in the Company's territories of the practice of vaccination against smallpox. Establishment of a vaccination hospital at Madras under the superintendence of William Horsman (includes statistics of patients).
Papers regarding the progress of vaccination in the Bombay Presidency; outbreak of a smallpox epidemic in Bombay city; report on the causes and origins of the disease in the city of Surat; report of Dr D White.
Volume 2: continues from IOR/F/4/2537/147512. Reports and correspondence forwarded to the Court of Directors, regarding vaccine establishment throughout the Presidencies and Provinces, and measures taken to combat smallpox.
The Bombay Government decide not to make the practice of vaccination against smallpox compulsory - (includes returns of persons vaccinated in the Bombay Presidency between 1 Apr 1814 and 31 Mar 1815, pp 9 and 12-13).
Report on the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency
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Correspondence regarding the progress of vaccination in the Bengal Presidency, forwarding copy report by Thomas Coats showing the numbers vaccinated in 1811-1812; and "A short account of the Cow Pox as translated into the Mahrattah language by Thomas Coats, Surgeon.".
Volume I: Volume 2 continues in IOR/F/4/2537/147513. Government of India to the Court of Directors regarding measures to reduce smallpox mortaility and increase the success of vaccination across the Presidencies. Letter dated 02 Jun 1853 summarises the various reports and letters that are enclo...
Measures taken to introduce smallpox vaccination in Bengal Presidency
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Measures taken to introduce the practice of vaccination against smallpox in the Bengal Presidency. Cowpox to be introduced to Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen], Sumatra, by orphan children sent out from Bengal. Question of introducing vaccination to New South Wales and China.
Measures to improve vaccination diffusion in the Lower Provinces of Bengal
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Correspondence forwarded to the Court of Directors by the Government of Bengal, regarding measures to improve vaccination uptake throughout the Lower Provinces. Discusses the opinion of the Bengal Medical Board that legislation prohibiting inoculation [variolation] should not be enacted until an...
Introduction of inoculation in Trichinopoly District, and the extension of the practice throughout the Madras Presidency
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Government of Madras award 500 pagodas to Surgeon James Richardson for his work in furthering the practice of inoculation in Trichinopoly, introduced several years prior by Nicol Mein. Order than an abstract report regarding inoculation be published in the vernacular languages and circulated. L...
