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.
Reduction in the strength of the Provincial Subordinate Medical Service in Bengal by the transfer of a number of Dispensary appointments to private practitioners
Agent of the Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway acknowledges adoption of the rules regulating the conveyance by rail of persons suffering from contagious disease