Unsuccessful attempt by the Bengal Government to persuade the Bombay Government to abolish Lock Hospitals throughout the Bombay Presidency (includes the observations of William Augustus Burke, Inspector General of Hospitals of H.M. Forces in India, pp 71-83, and returns showing the prevalence of ...
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.
Abandonment of the plan to build a new lunatic asylum in Calcutta in consequence of measures being adopted for sending insane patients back to England, (includes a list of patients in the Calcutta Lunatic Asylum in September 1818, who are to be sent home, with remarks, pp 104-05)
Trial and conviction of several natives of the Northern Konkan for murdering persons deemed to be sorcerers and responsible for the recent cholera outbreak - they are subsequently all pardoned with the exception of one who is transported to Penang for life.
Precautionary measures taken at Calcutta in view of the possible introduction of the plague by ships from the Red Sea; appointment of a Board of Health etc.
Papers regarding famine and hospital provision in British Bundelkhand and the Bundelkhand States
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Papers regarding the famine which prevailed in British Bundelkhand and the Bundelkhand States as a result of the severe drought in 1833/34 - measures taken by the Commissioner of the Hamirpur Division, Richard Milbank Tilghman, to bring relief to the inhabitants - employment of some of the destit...