pp 201-24. Comprising: Communication from William Thom, Officiating Surgoen General, Indian Medical Department, Bombay. Remarks upon the Sind boil by Surgeon Keelan, 2nd Belooch Regiment, Native Infantry. Report on the Sind Sore by Surgeon J A Howell, 30th Native Infantry. Annual Report on the S...
Cultivation of sunflowers in the Dutch East Indies
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pp 77-78. British Minister at the Hague forwards a translation of a report on the cultivation of sunflowers in several of the Residencies in Java and Madura, for the purposes of neutralizing marshy exhalations.
Ranikhet Lock Hospital Report and Returns for 1871
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pp 95-102. Copy report and returns containing tabulated statistics, plus comments thereon by the Commissioner of the Kumaon Provinces; Lieutenant-Colonel T H Chamberlain, Cantonment Magistrate; J A Ferguson, Surgeon in Medical Charge; and the Government of the North-Western Provinces.
Supply of Hospital Assistants for the Civil Department
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pp 967-1259. Correspondence regarding the supply of hospital assistants to the Civil Department. Includes statistics on the distribtion of staff throughout the establishment; comments on examinations and educational requirements; details of syllabuses and the composition of lectures; and discuss...
Egypt imposes quarantine on ships arriving from Jeddah
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p 05. Telegrams received, advising that due to the reported outbreak of cholera at Jeddah and Mecca, Egyptian authorities will impose ten days quarantine on ships bringing passengers from those locations.
pp 153-235. Reports collated by provincial Indian Governments and Administrations, to determine: the extent to which leprosy exists among the people in each district; if localised, the locality in which it is chiefly found; the special peculiarities of such localities, if there are any; the spec...
Trial of cinchona febrifuge in the Madras Presidency
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pp 75-79. Correspondence regarding trials of the cinchona febrifuge from Sikkim, and its possible substitution for 75 percent of the supply of quinine in Madras Presidency.
pp 247-251. Contains: Letter from the Office of the Chief Commissioner, Burma, to the Government of India regarding suitable sites for cinchona cultivation in British Burma. Report from the Assistant Commissioner, Hlaingbweh, to the Deputy Commissioner, Amherst District, regarding suitable sites...