Special cholera enquiry in the Jabalpur [Jubbulpore] District
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pp 103-05. S C Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner with the Central Provinces, forwards sample forms for recording returns of sickness and mortality in regiments; cases of cholera reported at station-houses and outposts; and nominal registers of deaths. Plus request that Dr Edis [Medical Officer appo...
pp 123-25. Report of the Commissioner, Jabalpur [Jubbulpore] Division, on the improvement of the water-supply in villages [datd May 1871] is forwarded for information. Plus Appendix A [appears at the end of the 1872 section in the volume] Sanitary Commissioner with the Central Provinces submits a...
pp 545-53. Government comments on: the reports by the Commissioners of the Patna, Rajshahye, Kuch Behar and Chota Nagpur Divisions on the working of the Cantonment Lock Hospitals for the year 1876. the annual reports of the several Lock Hospitals in the Punjab for the year 1876. reports on the w...
Outbreak of the disease called beri-beri in Atchin
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pp 481-85. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding a translation of a paper on the beri-beri epidemic in Atchin by Professor C A Pikelharing, which originally appeared in No. 25 of the Netherlands Medical Journal.
pp 277-83. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding letter from Bayer & Co., Germany, regarding the use of Europhen by a Dr Goldschmidt to cure leprosy, and inviting the Government of India to trial the drug. Request for the papers and medicine sample to be sent to the Civil Surgeon o...
Financial proposals connected with the Bombay Plague Laboratory
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pp 2093-2114. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bombay, and Waldemar Haffkine, regarding staffing of the Plague Laboratory, operating costs, and the move from the Khushru Lodge to Government House, Parel.
pp 595-99. Correspondence regarding the distribution of Calmette's serum by the Plague Research Laboratory, and the supply of dried snake venom to Calmette.
Arrangements for a Pasteur Institute in Southern India
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p 353. Communication from the Government of Madras, accepting the recommendations of the Government of India as to the location of the institute at a hill station, and informing the Government that sites at Ootacamund and Coonoor are under consideration.
pp 1859-69. Correspondence regarding the pressure for places at the Agra Medical School, and considering the options (i) to reduce the reserve of military hospital assistants; (ii) to enlarge the school; (iii) to transfer students from Rajputana to the medical school at Indore.