Resolution of the Under Secretary to the Government of India regarding the report on the Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries in the Bombay Presidency for the year 1884
Decision that newly appointed Officers of the Indian Medical Service should, on first arrival in India, be attached to Presidency Hospitals for two months for clinical instruction in tropical disease
Proposed amendment of the Contagious Diseases Act (XIV of 1868)
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pp 953-55. Communication received from the Government of Bengal, proposing new police powers to arrest women for breach of lock hospital rules, exempting themselves from medical examination, or engaging in prostitution without registration. Reply from the Government of India.
Revision of the Establishment of the Indian Medical Service
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pp 509-14. Copy communication from the Surgeon General of Madras, requesting that the Medical Establishment of Madras be extended in order to meet the demands made upon it; with correspondence thereon.
Proposal to create a class of Senior Hospital Assistants
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pp 135-70. Correspondence, including a tabulated statement of the names of Indian Civil Hospital Assistants serving in Assam and the appointments held by each, together with their pay and allowances.
Proposed improvements in the administration of Lunatic Asylums in India
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pp 127-49. Communication from the Government of India to the Presidency and Administration Governments, forwarding two reports on asylum administration in India by A Fraser and Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel C Warden, members of the recent Hemp Drugs Commission.
Re-use of apparatus for producing Röntgen's rays [x-rays]
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pp 301-29. Correspondence regarding the difficulties in operating the machinery in a humid climate, recommending alternative places for the machinery, or alternative uses.