Proposed extension of Clause 7, Section 19 of Act XXII of 1864 to the Cantonment of Dalhousie and its neighbourhood
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pp 389-93. Correspondence regarding the difficulties in extending the provisions of the act to cover female labourers employed on public works in the vicinity of the soldiers' barracks.
Measures taken in the Punjab to give effect to the civil scale of pay fixed for Civil Hospital Assistants
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pp 195-208. Contains tabulated list showing the names, date of rank, &c., of Civil Hospital Assistants serving in the Punjab Circle Department, corrected up to 31 March 1881, excluding local Native Doctors.
Precautions taken due to apparent plague outbreak in Mecca
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pp 371-72. Government of India forward to the Government of the Punjab copy extracts from the Aden News Report, plus translated letter from Sheikh Esaw Ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrain, advising that as a precaution against plague transmission, pilgrims will be prevented from entering Mecca.
Treatment of snake-bite by means of the injection of ammonia
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Report by A H Hilson, Civil Surgeon at Moradabad, reporting on his experience of injecting ammonia to treat snake-bite, as recommended by Prodfessor Halford. Hilson comments on Dr Fayrer's method of using artificial respiration in cases of cobra bite.
Question as to the legality of the orders issued by the Commanding Officer of Moradabad Cantonment prohibiting the Indian servants of the residents to pass into the city at night
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pp 17-18. Letter from the Government of India to the Solicitor for Government, Calcutta, regarding regulations enforced following the cholera outbreak.
Anticipated imposition of quarantine in the Red Sea on account of alleged prevalence of cholera at Madras
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pp 215-23. Secretary of State forwards copy correspondence regarding the imposition of quarantine by the Egyptian Sanitary Board on ships proceeding from Madras, due to suspected epidemic cholera. Alternative arrangements for mail steamers are discussed, including the possibility of sending steam...
Result of the experiments made with the alleged remedy for snake-bite supplied by the King of Siam
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Contains a report by Surgeon A J Wall, member of the Snake Poison Commission, detailing the experiments with "two small pieces of a root of a tree with a slightly aromatic odour".