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Quarantine prescribed for vessels arriving in Egypt from a suspected port
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p 677. The Consul-General at Cairo forwards copy telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt, advising that vessels arriving without a bill of health or surgeon on board will be subjected to a three day quarantine observation.
Revised statistical forms for adoption in the Sanitary and Vaccination Reports
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pp 511-15. Comments from Surgeon Major H W Bellew, Sanitary Commissioner and Superintendent General of Vaccination for the Punjab, plus Resolution of the Government of India.
Report on the Lunatic Asylum at Rangoon for the year 1875
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pp 283-304 Report contains statistics on admissions and discharges; the religion, sex, occupations and originating districts of patients; types and causes of mental illness. Also includes financial report for the Asylum. Accompanied by resolution regarding the detention of people at out-statio...
Proposal to issue a revised edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia in England
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pp 213-340. Correspondence and reports regarding the compilation of a revised Indian Pharmacopoeia to be published in England. Discusses the ongoing suitability of Waring's Pharmacopoeia (1868) and Mohideen Sheriff's supplement (1869). Several reports received providing detailed lists of Indian...
Report of the Government Cinchona Plantations on the Nilgiris for 1882-1883
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pp 453-85. Dispatch from the Government of Madras to the Sectretary of State, forwarding: H A Gass, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Administration Report of the Cinchona Plantations in the Nilgiri District, with appendices Order thereon by E F Webster, Secretary to the Government of Madras.
Question of local manufacture of cinchona febrifuge in lieu of home manufacture
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pp 5-25. Despatch from the Secretary of State stating that, pending the final decision regarding the local manufacture of quinine from the Madras and Sikkim barks in lieu of home manufacture, he has determined to revert to the former system of sale by auction of the barks consigned to the India ...
Proposals for the establishment of a Quinine Manufactory on the Nilgiris
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pp 127-32. Correspondence between the Secretary of State, the Government of Madras and the Government of India regarding proposals for a quinine manufactory in the Nilgiris, forwarding: Letter from Messrs H Stranbrough [Stanbrough?], Hinde and other to the Under Secretary of State, detailing a p...
Report on the Government Cinchona Plantations in the Nilgiris for 1883-1884
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pp 401-35. Despatch from the Government of Madras forwarding the report of M A Lawson, Director of Government Cinchona Plantation, Parks and Gardens, Nilgiris [report on the four planatations - Dodabetta, Naduvatam, Hooker and Wood] for the official year 1883-84, including 17 statistical stateme...