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Establishment of sanatoria for treatment of patients suffering from tubercular diseases
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pp 477-535. Communications sent by the Presidency and Provincial Governments regarding the need for sanatoria for the treatment of tubercular diseases, including the following enclosures: Report of the Consumptives' Homes Societies for the first year ending 31 May 1910 Report Tuberculosis in Kas...
Proposed quarantine at Suez for all vessels arriving from India
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pp 315-19. Secretary of State forwards copy telegrams regarding the Egyptian Board of Health proposals to impose quarantine restrictions at Suez on vessels arriving from India without a clean bill of health, because of concerns arising from the famine in India. Received from Major-General Edward ...
Alleged cure for dysentery discovered by Mr George A White
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Correspondence regarding White's alleged cure, using the sesamum indicum. Includes instructions for preparing the treatment, and copy testimonies forwarded by White. Order of the Governor General in Council that the treatment be trialled.
Dr Beatson's mangement of the Nagpur Lunatic Asylum
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Correspondence regarding the operation of the asylum under the superintendence of Surgeon Major W B Beatson, primarily focusing on the pregnancy of a patient. The correspondence provides detail about the day to day running of the asylum.
Comment on the Lahore Medical School entrance criteria and syllabus
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Letter from the Government of India to the Government of the Punjab, regarding the level of English required to attend to the medical school, and the possibility of focusing on practical medicine.
Conveyance by rail of persons suffering from contagious diseases
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pp 09-16. Comprising: Memorandum by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, remarking on the views expressed by different Railway Companies in the Bengal Presidency regarding the draft rules. Cuningham considers each rule and the responses to them in sequence. Correspo...
Water-supply and drainage scheme for the City of Lahore
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pp 69-76. Correspondence between the Governments of the Punjab and India, plus Report of the Committee appointed to report on the general form of the project for the Drainage of the City of Lahore, and comments thereon by Sanitary Commissioner De Renzy.
Proposed amendment of the Contagious Diseases Act (XIV of 1868)
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pp 33-39. Copy communication from the Government of Bengal regarding the proposed amendments, principally concerning 1) the definition of the term "common prostitute", 2) provision for compulsory registration, and 3) powers of summary arrest for unregistered prostitution. Resolution thereon by ...
Pasteur Institute in India for the treatment of rabies
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p 467. Communication from the Secretary of State for India regarding the lines of demarcation between the functions of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli and the central bacteriological laboratory at Parel, and the funding arrangements for the former.