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131. IOR/F/4/523/12474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/523/12474
Title:
Scope & Content:
Twelve persons are sent from Madras to Canton as live carriers of the cowpox vaccine, but find that their services are not required, the vaccine having been obtained from Manila (includes a list of the carriers, p 23).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1813-Mar 1815
Extent:
1 file

132. IOR/F/4/2474/138636

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2474/138636
Title:
Refusal of the Bengal Government to publish Dr Balfour's translation of Outlines of Midwifery on the terms proposed
Scope & Content:
Madras Government authorises printing of 500 copies at the Gazette Press.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849-1850
Extent:
1 file

133. IOR/F/4/637/17525

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/637/17525
Title:
Proposal of Surgeon Thomas Hope of HMS Gannymede that opium and nitrous acid should be used as a cure for cholera
Scope & Content:
Includes accounts of the use of these substances.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1821-Feb 1822
Extent:
1 file

134. IOR/F/4/382/9625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/382/9625
Title:
Papers regarding the progress of vaccination in the Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the progress of vaccination in the Madras Presidency - re-establishment of the smallpox hospital at Madras - the allowances of the Superintendent reduced below the sum fixed by the Court of Directors - certain additions made to the native establishment - the Abbé Jean A Dubois, S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1810-Mar 1813
Extent:
1 file

135. IOR/F/4/1719/69277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1719/69277
Title:
Appointment of a Committee to consider the best method of improving the state of public hygiene in Madras City
Scope & Content:
Reports of the Chief Engineer (pp 39-57) and of the Committee (pp 58-70); failure of the contract system; the Scavenging Department placed once more under the Superintendent of Roads; priority given to cleaning the drains in Black Town and suburbs.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1836-Dec 1837
Extent:
1 file

136. IOR/F/4/2212/109401

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2212/109401
Title:
Establishment of a mesmeric hospital at Calcutta under the superintendence of Assistant Surgeon J Esdaile
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1847
Extent:
1 file

137. IOR/F/4/2387/127295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2387/127295
Title:
Sanitary improvements in the town of Akyab [Sittwe] in response to the great sickness which prevailed there in 1843-44
Scope & Content:
Contains reports by Major A Bogle, Lieutenant H Hopkinson, and Assistant Surgeon C Archer on the cause of the sickness and measures to prevent its recurrence.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845-1847
Extent:
1 file

138. IOR/F/4/2166/104726

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2166/104726
Title:
Mesmeric experiments by Dr Esdaile at Hooghly [Hugli], during the course of 102 surgical operations on native patients
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 file

139. IOR/F/4/2398/129162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2398/129162
Title:
Regarding a doolie of very ingenious construction invented by John S Login and intended to be used for the conveyance of the sick
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of Login's 'Memoir on the field carriage of sick and wounded soldiers in the Bengal army', with illustration.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1850
Extent:
1 file

140. IOR/F/4/1852/78219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1852/78219
Title:
Measures taken to obtain accurate reports on the medical topography of the three Presidencies
Scope & Content:
Regarding the suggestion by James Ranald Martin that Medical Officers in each Presidency be required to prepare reports on the Medical Topography of areas which they are acquainted with, and that a committee of surgeons be formed to collate the reports into a topographical memoir. Discussion of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1836-Jan 1840
Extent:

82 pages