Proposal is made by the Government of Bengal in connection with the Professorships of Pathology and Physiology in the Medical College, Calcutta, and for conducting bacteriological research in Bengal
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pp 1271-95. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bengal, with enclosed note by Surgeon-Colonel T H Hendley, Inspector General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal: Note on the appointment of a successor to Brigade-Surgeon D Cunnincham and the establishment of a Research Department (1893).
Proposed amalgamation of certain Lunatic Asylums in the Bombay Presidency
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pp 1027-35. Correspondence between the Governments of Bombay and India, regarding the proposed amalgamation of the existing asylums at Poona and Ratnagiri with the new asylum at Nowpada. Includes tabulated statements showing patient numbers, plus temperature and rainfall from 1893-98.
Remarks on the Annual Reports on Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries in India for the year 1897
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pp 225-91. Resolutions and remarks from the Presidency and Provincial Governments on the annual reports for medical institutions, plus comparative note by the Director-General, Indian Medical Service.
Measures to be taken for the prevention of the insect "Chigo" or "Jigger flea" [Tunga] being introduced into India from Africa
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pp 297-303. Government of India forward report by E C Cotes, Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, regarding the Tunga or Sarcopsylla penetrans, and the potential dangers of importing the insect to India [includes illustration].
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel G A Emerson, Superintendent of the MacLaren Leper Asylum, Dehra Dun, on the use of "Europhen" in the treatment of Leprosy
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pp 77-87. Report of Surgeon Emerson of his medical trials with the drug Europhen, received from Friedrich Bayer & Co., including detailed case study descriptions for named leprosy patients.
Appointment of temporary medical practitioners in England for plague duty in India
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pp 97-109. Note by the Director General of the Indian Medical Service, regarding the difficulties in obtaining medical practitioners for plague duty; plus copy telegrams from the various Presidencies and Provinces providing details of their respective plague establishments.