The item consists of five letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The letters refer to recent activities connected to the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people] in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, especially Judda [Juddah], Bahrein [Bahrain], Oman, and ...
Report on convalescent patients treated at the Nilgilri Hills by Robert Baikie, Thomas George Stephenson, and James Strachan
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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...
This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, British Political Agent at Aden; the Me...
Reports on the comparative salubrity and economy of stations on the hills and in the plains
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Report and supplementary report of the Committee on the Comparative Salubrity, Economy and Eligibility of the stations of Umballah and Ferazapore in the plains and Kussowlie and Subathoo in the hills, collated by committee president J G Drummond, Deputy Quarter Master of the Army; with three app...
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Commander Lynch, Acting Superintendent of the Indian Navy. It is the thirteenth in ...
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which form partial enclosures to a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 14 February 1846. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102302, alongside deta...
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 30 September 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of furth...
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.