p 213. Government of India inform the Secretary of State that plague has broken out in Baghdad, and that quarantines have been established at Busreh [Basreh] and Kifri.
p 489. Telegram received from C Vivian, Cairo, reporting on a meeting of the Egyptian Board of Health regarding quarantine arrangements at Egyptian ports.
p 375. Telegram received from Bombay: "Nixon telegraphs - Baghdad 12th. Ottoman Board of Health have this day abolished quarantine in Turkish Arabia. Inform Government of India."
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.
Proposed re-arrangement of the Annual Sanitary Reports
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pp 251-353. Extensive correspondence between the Secretary of State, the Government of India, the Presidency and Provincial Governments, and a number of Sanitary Commissioner, regarding the content and layout of the Annual Sanitary Reports, and the collection and recording of vital statistics.
Proposed International Commission of Enquiry into the plague
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pp 623-25. The Foreign Office forward copy correspondence regarding the proposed International Medical Commission of Enquiry into the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia, and the nomination of Dr [William Henry] Colvill as the representative for Her Majesty's Government.
pp 41-61. Correspondence between the Government of Bengal and the Military Department regarding the duties and responsibilities of civil officers in regard to the working of lock hospitals in Cantonments.
pp 561-64. Government of India forward previous telegrams and correspondence regarding cholera outbreaks along the river Indus and the suggested establishment of a quarantine at Attock, Punjab, and draw attention to the measures to be adopted on the outbreak of cholera and smallpox.