pp 361-66. Correspondence between various Departments of the Governments of India and the Punjab, plus remarks by A C C De Renzy, Punjab Sanitary Commissioner.
Correspondence and reports showing the results of trials with the mixed cinchona alkaloid manufactured by the Government Quinologist, C H Wood, at Rungbee. Includes details of the cinchona preparation, and detailed case study notes for named patients.
p 133. Copy telegram from the Resident at Bushire, advising Government of the apparent appearance of plague, that vessels arriving from Busreh [Basra] will be inspected, and advising the same measures be adopted at Muscat. Government of India request that suitable measures be taken.
Military Department memo regarding the efficacy of precollegiate training for Indian medical pupils. Appends copy report by Dr J F Beaton, Surgeon General of the India Medical Department, regarding the present system. Attached statistics show pupil admittance for 1868-1874; plus a statement by...
pp 77-78. Circulars forwarded to the Government of the NorthWestern Provinces and Oudh, and to Jail Superintendents: Circular of the Inspector General of Prisons regarding the use of am-chur, putva or roselle [hibiscus subdariffa] and kokum as antiscorbutics; Tabular statement by J B Lyons, Prof...
pp 687-91. Letters received from the Zomba Residency and British Central Africa Administration regarding the spread of the Jigger-flea [Tunga or pulex penetrans].
Proposed international commission on the Asiatic plague
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pp 203-04. Correspondence regarding the Austro-Hungarian proposal to establish an International Medical Commission of Enquiry into the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia.