Measures to be taken for the prevention of the insect "Chigo" or "Jigger flea" [Tunga] being introduced into India from Africa
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pp 297-303. Government of India forward report by E C Cotes, Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, regarding the Tunga or Sarcopsylla penetrans, and the potential dangers of importing the insect to India [includes illustration].
Dr H Vandyke Carter's deputation to visit certain countries where leprosy prevails
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Correspondence between the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and Vandyke Carter, including the expenditure and itinerary of his tour through Italy, Algiers, Greece and Turkey.
Plague deaths at Baghdad and Hillah, and the lifting of quarantine at Persian ports
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pp 379-80. Telegrams from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Resident at Turkish Arabia, reporting plague cases and deaths, and the lifting of the quarantine in Persian ports.
Results of trials with Dr H W Adams' specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea
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pp 521-23. Letters summarizing the results of trials with Dr H W Adam's specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea. Dr Adams' suggested coal and carbon diet was not tested.
Manufacture of febrifuge from the bark grown on the Government cinchona plantations in Bengal
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pp 15-48. Correspondence and resolutions on the manufacture of febrifuge with the Bengal cinchona bark, including letters and reports from: Surgeon-Major George King, Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal, July 1882; W T Thiselton-Dyer, Assistant D...
pp 93-112. Dispatch from the India Office to the Governor General of India in Council regarding cinchona production, enclosing: Report on the manufacture of sulphate of quinine and other cinchona alkaloids on Government account Report by Sir J Fayrer on a collection of papers showing the recent ...