Report on Mr J G P de Vasconcellos' alleged remedy for snake bites
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pp 93-95. Communication from the Government of Bengal enclosing a report of the experiments made by Surgeon Vincent Richards, Civil Medical Officer, Goalundo, on the supposed antidote to snake poison (Natalicea Paulicea) suggested by de Vasconcellos.
Amended forms for the registration of deaths prescribed for general adoption
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pp 87-95. W R Cornish, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Madras, comments on the new forms prescribed by the Government of India, and submits an amended version of Register B.
Captain Elliot's researches into the nature and action of snake venom
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pp 697-719. Forwards the following reports by Captain R H Elliot: On acquired immunity against snake-venom as possed by Indian snake-charmers, by mongooses and by certain other animals On the value of the serums of the Russell Viper and the Cobra, as antidotes to the venoms of those snakes
pp 377-87. Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwards reports received from Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, plus memoranda of proceedings of the Board of Health at Teheran [Tehran], submitted by Sir Joseph R L Dickson. The reports include details about the...
Want of uniformity in the Sanitary Reports sent to the India Office; discontinuance of the reports on water analysis
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pp 777-819. Correspondence, plus reports on water analysis performed in Calcutta, and report of the Chemical Examiner to the Government of the Punjab on an examination of waters.
Observations by the Army Sanitary Commission on the replies of Officers and Departments to the remarks of the Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bombay for 1871
Difference of opinion between the Collector of Malabar and the Civil Surgeon of Calicut as to the classification of deaths during 1875-1876
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p. 235. Regarding a disease which the Collector identified as cholera, but which the Civil Surgeon recorded under the heading 'bowel complaints' in the annual reports. Government of India express their view that Madras had suffered from a particularly bad cholera epidemic that year.