Introduction in the Company's territories of the practice of vaccination against smallpox. Establishment of a vaccination hospital at Madras under the superintendence of William Horsman (includes statistics of patients).
Unsuccessful attempt by the Bengal Government to persuade the Bombay Government to abolish Lock Hospitals throughout the Bombay Presidency (includes the observations of William Augustus Burke, Inspector General of Hospitals of H.M. Forces in India, pp 71-83, and returns showing the prevalence of ...
Papers regarding the progress of vaccination in the Bombay Presidency; outbreak of a smallpox epidemic in Bombay city; report on the causes and origins of the disease in the city of Surat; report of Dr D White.
Abandonment of the plan to build a new lunatic asylum in Calcutta in consequence of measures being adopted for sending insane patients back to England, (includes a list of patients in the Calcutta Lunatic Asylum in September 1818, who are to be sent home, with remarks, pp 104-05)
Trial and conviction of several natives of the Northern Konkan for murdering persons deemed to be sorcerers and responsible for the recent cholera outbreak - they are subsequently all pardoned with the exception of one who is transported to Penang for life.
