Government enquiry into the supposed practice of wealthy Muslims providing for the poor to make pilgrimage to Mecca without sufficiently providing for their journey back or subsistence
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pp 397-473. Following receipt of a report from the British Council in Jeddah that many pilgrims do not have provision for their subsistence at Jeddah or return passage to Mecca, the Government of India request opinions on the matter from the Presidency Governments, and recommendations for any ap...
Crowded state of the mail steamers belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Company when carrying Indian passengers
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pp 225-27. Correspondence regarding alleged overcrowding, plus List of British India Steam Navigation Company's Steamers that arrived from the Persian Gulf during the year 1876-77, showing ship name, tonnage, and the number of deck passengers.
Measures proposed by the Government of India in view to relieving the Sanitary Commissioners in India of statistical duties
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pp 71-74. Resolution of the Government of India. Separate compilation of jail statistics to be discontinued, and compiled instead by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
Trial of the crystalline variety of the cinchona febrifuge prepared by Mr Gammie of the Mungpoo Factory
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pp 23-31. Letter from the Government of Bengal to the Government of India regarding the trials of Gammie's crystalline cinchona febrifuge, free from the amorphous alkalkoid, enclosing: Report on the trial of crystalline cinchona febrifuge Memorandum. A further trail of crystalline cinchona febri...
Report on the Government Cinchona Plantation in Bengal and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1882-83
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pp 319-33. Dispatch to the Secretary of State for India, forwarding copies of the reports by George King, Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta; plus resolution of the Government of Bengal.
Measures to address the condition of poor pilgrims at Jeddah, and travelling to and from Mecca
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pp 521-23. Communication between Brigadier-General J Schneider, Political Resident at Aden, Captain G Beyts, Consul at Jeddah, and the Secretary of State for India, regarding the payment of passage for poor pilgrims by the wealthy without making provision for their subsistence at Jeddah and Mecca...