Statistical tables for smallpox across the three Presidencies, 1853-1877
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pp 557-63. Statistical tables compiled by J Murray, Inspector General of Hospitals, showing admissions and deaths amongst the civil population, native prisoners, native troops and European troops across the three Presidencies for 1853-1877.
Report on the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum for 1877, plus resolution
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pp 453-67. Returns of the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum, providing tabulated data on admissions and discharges, number of criminals admitted, religion and sex of patients, occupation, ages, types of insanity, causes of insanity, hospital statistics, expenditure, sanctioned establishment, profit from pa...
Scheme for the extension of bacteriological work in India
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pp 1559-66. Circular from the Government of India to the Provincial and Presidency Governments regarding the need to apply modern scientific methods to the study of diseases in India; plus Note on the bacteriological requirements for India by the Director General, Indian Medical Service.
pp 115-17. Communication from W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, Turkish Arabia, regarding the upcoming International Sanitary Conference on the transmission of cholera and plague, the value of quarantine restrictions in preventing the spread of cholera, and the current arrangements in Persi...
Quarantine restrictions upon vessels coming from infected ports
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pp 413-32. Comprising: Port of Calcutta, Rules for the Guidance of Running Pilots. Chief Commissioner, British Burma, Rules relating to quarantine for the ports mentioned in Schedule A [Rangoon, Moulmein, Akyab, Kyouk-Phyoo, Sandoway, Tavoy, Mergui, Bassein]. Correspondence between the Governmen...
Quarantine rules framed by the Government of Bombay
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pp 313-18. Government of Bombay submit Rules relating to Quarantine for the ports of Bombay [Mumbai], Kurrachee [Karachi], Aden and Karwar; and extract thereon from a Report by the Health Officer, Bombay. Plus communication from the Government of India noting their concern over the proposals.