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Correspondence regarding the complaint of Messrs. Gray, Dawes and Co. as to the imposition of quarantine at Aden on vessels arriving there from Red Sea ports
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pp 385-88. Correspondence regarding the complaint received from Messrs Gray, Dawes & Co., agents for the British India Steam Navigation Company, including comments by the Government of Bombay regarding the measures adopted by the Resident at Aden following the appearance of smallpox on the st...
Annual report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1879-80
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Containing: Eighteenth Annual Report and Returns of the Government Cinchona Plantations in British Sikkim by Surgeon Major George King; Report of the Quinologist for 1879-80; Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the above.
Comment on the reports of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim and of the Government Quinologist for 1879-80
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p 443. Letter from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General regarding Dr King's recommendations following his visit to Java, the proposal to encourage private enterprise in cinchona cultivation in new localities, and his preference for Government to extend current plantations rath...
Reports of medical officers on the suitability of the cinchona febrifuge and cinchona alkaloids, and on the value of sulphate of quinetum and hydrochlorate of quinetum as a febrifuge
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pp 375-436. Reports contain detailed case studies for named patients, alongside tabulated data and Surgeon's comments on the various treatments.
Regarding the lunatic asylums in Madras, Bengal, the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, and the Central Provinces, for the year 1890
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pp 01-18. Correspondence regarding the reports on the asylums for the year 1890, with orders thereon. Contains detailed discussion of admissions and expenditure.