This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Memorials from certain officers regarding the displacement of Europeans by Indian Medical Officers as Civil Surgeons
Scope & Content:
pp 137-48. Government of the Punjab forward to the Government of India a list of memorials received from various officers regarding the proposals to strengthen provision of an Indian civil medical service; plus copy memorial from a Judge of the Punjab Chief Court, regarding Indian Medical Officer...
pp 375-79. Colonel J P Nixon [John Pigott], Her Majesty's Consul General, Baghdad, forwards copy telegrams regarding the imposition of quarantine in Baghdad as a result of an outbreak of plague, and declaring Bussorah [Al-Basrah] to be infected. Telegrams received from: Syud Mahomed Redif, Govern...
Imposition of quarantine on arrivals from the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
pp 541-44. Copy telegrams received from Colonel Nixon, Consul-General in Baghdad; and Messrs Gray, Dawes and Company, Agents, British India Steam Navigation Company, regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq], the imposition of quarantine, and competition in shipping with the Khedive'...
Further reports on the endemic skin diseases of India
Scope & Content:
Communication from the Deputy Surgeon-General, Presidency Circle, Bengal, to the Government of India, forwarding four reports on skin disease in response to the circular by Drs Tilbury Fox and Farquhar.
Introduction of the Contagious Diseases Act in to certain places in Bengal and Berar
Scope & Content:
pp 867-75. Government of Bengal forward, with comments, copy Minute by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal on the introduction of Act XIV of 1868 into Bengal and Berar. Plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
Captain Warren's scheme for the manufacture and supply of ice in India
Scope & Content:
pp 105-37. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Presidency and Provincial administrations regarding Captain Warren's proposal, discussing the requirements for ice in industry and medical practice, and the practicalities and economics of Warren's scheme as regards manufacture an...
Report on the working of the Sitapur Lock Hospital for the year 1874
Scope & Content:
pp 321-34. Report by Surgeon Major Theobold Ringer, in medical charge of the Lock Hospital, plus comments from the Sitapur Cantonment Committee, the Chief Commissioner of Oudh, and the Government of India.