Opinions of the Bombay Presidency Collectors on inoculation and vaccination
Scope & Content:
Opinion of the Collectors of the Northern and Southern Divisions of Bombay Presidency regarding the prohibition of inoculation by legislation, and improving the existing system of vaccination.
Registration of sub-soil water levels to test Pettenkofer's theory of cholera
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pp 49-51. Government of Bengal request information as to whether they should continue with sub-soil water registration. Communication from the Government of India to the Presidency and Provincial Governments, ordering that registration be amended for a more extended use, and combined with informa...
Proposed extension to the Cantonment of Jutogh of the Contagious Diseases Act
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pp 327-30. Correspondence regarding the necessity of extending the act to Jutogh, including communication from Major C H Le Mesurier, Commanding at Jutogh, regarding the ad hoc arrangements for regulating prostitution.
Report of the Health Officer of the Port of Calcutta for 1876
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pp 491-501. Report submitted by S C Mackenzie, Health Officer, plus comments there on by A S Lethbridge, Officiating Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal; and by the Government of Bengal.
Sample of cinchona febrifuge manufactured by the Government Chemist in Jamaica
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pp 181-85. Dispatch from the Secretary of State forwarding a letter by Sir W T Thiselton-Dyer [written on behalf of Sir Joseph Hooker] regarding a febrifuge prepared in Jamaica from red cinchona bark grown in the colony; accompanying an analysis report by Dr B H Paul of the London Analytical Labo...