Instructions issued to the Madras Medical Board to prepare an account of the nature and treatment of 'cholera spasmodica'; reports of the Board on the present extent of the disease.
Papers regarding the cholera epidemic in the Bombay Presidency - measures taken to control the spread of the disease, etc. (includes mortality statistics for Bombay Island, pp 71, 73, 105-06)
Suggestion of the Bengal Medical Board that the experimental sanatorium at Cherrapunji should be used only by Eurasian and native insane patients and not by Europeans; includes report of Assistant Surgeon William Rhodes (pp 7-18).
Two people with leprosy buried alive at Chirka and Dassa
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Papers regarding Kathiawar (Vol 37) - burial alive of two native lepers, one at the village of Chirka in Oct 1837, the other at the village of Dassa in Mar 1838 - proceedings of the official enquiries into both crimes.
Investigation into the killing of a woman with leprosy
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Papers regarding Kathiawar (Vol 38) - case of the decapitation, on or about 18 Mar 1838 in the village of Pansana, Bhilka Taluka, of a woman called Jiwi, by Sompuri Rupuri, a religious mendicant - proceedings of the initial enquiry
Application by Dr Honigberger for permission to test, by experiment in the General Hosptials, the efficacy of certain remedies which he believes he has discovered for some of the worst Indian diseases