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Comments on the report of the working of the Lunatic Asylum at Rangoon for the year 1892
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pp 171-74. Resolution of the Chief Commissioner of Burma, plus letter from the Government of India, regarding poor performance and employment opportunities for patients.
Absence of any means in the Madras Presidency for carrying out a bacteriological examination of water obtained from suspected polluted sources
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pp 53-54. Communication to the Home Department, enclosing an extract from a report of the Sanitary Board on the outbreak of cholera at the Bangalore Hill Station.
Proposed deputation of a European Medical Officer to assist Dr Lingard in investigating the nature of the disease known in the Himalayas as Mahamari
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pp 717-19. Communication from the Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, forwarding a letter from Professor Robert Koch to Sir Anthony MacDonnell, recommending that an investigation be carried out to determine whether the disease known as mahamari is in fact bubonic plague, through b...
Continued employment of Captain S P James on special duty in connection with the anti-malarial operations at Mian Mir initiated by the Royal Society's Malaria Committee; return of Dr S R Christophers to England
Answer to a Parliamentary question relating to the statistics in regard to the prevalence of cancer in India
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pp 1043-49. Secretary of State forwards two statements in response to Parliamentary questions: Total number of cases of cancer and their percentage to the total number of other diseases treated in the dispensaries and medical institutions in the several ProvincesAdmissions and deaths from cancer...
Prevalence of the sleeping sickness in parts of Uganda, and the probability of its conveyance to India. Illustrated reports.
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pp 117-51. Despatch from the Secretary of State, forwarding copy reports on sleeping sickness in Uganda: Detailed reports by R U Moffat, Principal Medical Officer for Uganda, and Dr Aubrey Dallas Percival Hodges, containing descriptions of the outbreak, case studies for named patients, notes o...