Medical arrangements for the protection of Simla against Plague
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pp 623-29. Correspondence between the Governments of India, the Punjab, and Bombay. Provides details of observation posts and medical officers selected for plague duty.
Construction of a new Provincial Lunatic Asylum at Lahore
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pp 737-71. Correspondence regarding the construction and proposed establishment of the new asylum, including plans and elevations, plus conference proceedings and statements showing the comparative cost of a new asylum against the cost of modifications to existing arrangements.
Engagement of ten doctors for temporary plague duty in India
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pp 1403-19. Correspondence, plus details of the ten doctors [name, qualifications, posting]; extract of an article published in The Lancet of 27 May 1899, critical of the treatment of those on temporary plague duty; plus copy [blank] Memorandum of Agreement form.
pp 67-69. Secretary of State for India forwards three letters from Captain F Warren, Royal Navy, proposing a scheme for the manufacture and transport of ice in India, and discussing his alleged arrangements with the Government of Spain. Plus memorandum thereon by the Army Sanitary Commission.
pp 201-24. Comprising: Communication from William Thom, Officiating Surgoen General, Indian Medical Department, Bombay. Remarks upon the Sind boil by Surgeon Keelan, 2nd Belooch Regiment, Native Infantry. Report on the Sind Sore by Surgeon J A Howell, 30th Native Infantry. Annual Report on the S...
Cultivation of sunflowers in the Dutch East Indies
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pp 77-78. British Minister at the Hague forwards a translation of a report on the cultivation of sunflowers in several of the Residencies in Java and Madura, for the purposes of neutralizing marshy exhalations.
Supply of Hospital Assistants for the Civil Department
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pp 967-1259. Correspondence regarding the supply of hospital assistants to the Civil Department. Includes statistics on the distribtion of staff throughout the establishment; comments on examinations and educational requirements; details of syllabuses and the composition of lectures; and discuss...
pp 153-235. Reports collated by provincial Indian Governments and Administrations, to determine: the extent to which leprosy exists among the people in each district; if localised, the locality in which it is chiefly found; the special peculiarities of such localities, if there are any; the spec...
Trial of cinchona febrifuge in the Madras Presidency
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pp 75-79. Correspondence regarding trials of the cinchona febrifuge from Sikkim, and its possible substitution for 75 percent of the supply of quinine in Madras Presidency.