Mortality in the Lucknow Lunatic Asylum during 1871-1872
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Correspondence regarding the mortality rate, including comparative statistical statements of the ratios of deaths and discharges in the lunatic asylums of different provinces; a memorandum of the 1865 Lunatic Asylum Site Committee on the sanitary condition of the asylum site; letter from the Comm...
Communication from the Chief Commissioner of Oudh forwarding reports on endemic skin diseases, received from medical officers stationed throughout the Province in response to the circular from Drs Tilbury Fox and Farquhar. Contains statistics and detailed case studies for skin diseases in Oudh,...
pp 545-53. Government comments on: the reports by the Commissioners of the Patna, Rajshahye, Kuch Behar and Chota Nagpur Divisions on the working of the Cantonment Lock Hospitals for the year 1876. the annual reports of the several Lock Hospitals in the Punjab for the year 1876. reports on the w...
Outbreak of the disease called beri-beri in Atchin
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pp 481-85. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding a translation of a paper on the beri-beri epidemic in Atchin by Professor C A Pikelharing, which originally appeared in No. 25 of the Netherlands Medical Journal.
Financial proposals connected with the Bombay Plague Laboratory
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pp 2093-2114. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bombay, and Waldemar Haffkine, regarding staffing of the Plague Laboratory, operating costs, and the move from the Khushru Lodge to Government House, Parel.
Probable causes of the epidemic fever lately prevailing in the Burdwan and Hooghly Districts
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Communication from the Government of Bengal, forwarding correspondence and reports regarding the epidemic Burdwan fever and Hooghly fever. Includes detailed population returns for Burdwan, Hooghly and Midnapore; reports on the condition of the ryots; a Resolution by the Statistical Department; ...
Correspondence regarding the report on the Government cinchona plantation at British Sikkim for 1878
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pp 143-44. Correspondence regarding the satisfactory report, enclosing a letter from J Eliot Howard regarding the supply of raw materials to manufacture sulphate of quinine and Mr Wood's mixed cinchona alkaloids.
Correspondence regarding the proposed appointment of Physcian and Resident Surgeon positions in connection with the Pestonji Hormasji Cama Hospital for women and children, Bombay
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pp 335-57. Includes detailed information on the funding and foundation of the Pestonji Hormasji Cama Hospital for women and children, and the Jaffer Suleman Dispensary.