Inclusion in the annual report of the Sanitary Commissioner of the Bombay Presidency of the statistics of sickness and mortality among European troops in Bombay
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pp 33-36. Communication from T G Hewlett, Acting Sanitary Commissioner, Bombay, plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Report of the Health Officer of Calcutta for the second quarter of 1877
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pp 475-81. Report of Surgeon Major Arthur J Payne, Health Officer, Calcutta. Includes decennial statements of births and deaths for the second quarter of 1877.
pp 377-87. Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwards reports received from Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, plus memoranda of proceedings of the Board of Health at Teheran [Tehran], submitted by Sir Joseph R L Dickson. The reports include details about the...
Report on the 1876 cholera outbreak at Peshawar District
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pp 967-69. Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on a report on cholera in the Peshawar District during 1876, by Lieutenant A F Barrow, Officiating Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Peshawar District.
Inspection of the sanitary condition of villages in the neighbourhood of Cantonments in Bengal
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pp 643-48. Remarks on the proposed inspection regime made by J M Coates, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal; plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Proposed extension of Clause 7, Section 19 of Act XXII of 1864 to the Cantonment of Dalhousie and its neighbourhood
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pp 389-93. Correspondence regarding the difficulties in extending the provisions of the act to cover female labourers employed on public works in the vicinity of the soldiers' barracks.
Anticipated imposition of quarantine in the Red Sea on account of alleged prevalence of cholera at Madras
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pp 215-23. Secretary of State forwards copy correspondence regarding the imposition of quarantine by the Egyptian Sanitary Board on ships proceeding from Madras, due to suspected epidemic cholera. Alternative arrangements for mail steamers are discussed, including the possibility of sending steam...
Quarantine rules drawn up for Bombay; quarantine at Aden, Kurrachee and Bombay
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pp 173-97. Papers received by the Government of India regarding the quarantine rules proposed by the Government of Bombay under Act I of 1870 [copy draft included]; plus communications received regarding the outbreak of plague in the Persian Gulf, the quarantine imposed by the Egyptian Sanitary ...