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Reports on the experiments carried on by the Superintendent of the Zoological Garden, Calcutta, and Captain R H Elliot, Indian Medical Service, in connection with antidotes against snake poison
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pp 2033-43. Reports received from Rambramha Sanyal and R H Elliot regarding experiments on attempted immunization against snake venom, and the use of strychnine; plus correspondence thereon.
Communications received from Major Ronald Ross regarding the prevention of malaria in India by the destruction of the anopheles mosquito
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pp 853-77. Reports received from Ronald Ross, criticising the anti-malarial operations conducted at Mian Mir, and proposing additional measures to reduce the numbers of anopheles mosquitoes. Comprising reports by Ross: the Prevention of Malaria in India; the Anti-Malaria Experiment at Mian Mir; ...
Scheme for the establishment of a Central Research Institute at Kasauli and a laboratory for scientific, medical and sanitary work at the head-quarters of each Provincial Government
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pp 895-99. Correspondence plus resolution regarding the establishment of the institute at Ranbir Villa in Kasauli, appointing Lieutenant-Colonel D Semple as director.
Offer made by the Salvation Army to co-operate with the Government in supplying medical assistance to the people of India
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pp 621-37. Communication from the Government of Madras to the Government of India regarding the Salvation Army proposals, enclosing a Report on the working of the Catherine Booth Hospital of the Salvation Army Medical Department at Vadasery, Nagercoil, South Travancore. Plus letters from the Pr...
Creation of a separate chair of anatomy in the Medical College, Calcutta; arrangements for teaching botany and zoology
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pp 109-23. Proposals received from the Government of Bengal and the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal; plus details of the proposed revised establishment at the College.
Enquiry into the nature and pathology of the Delhi Sore
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pp 129-31. Correspondence regarding the apparent decrease in occurrence of the Delhi Sore, and the deputation of Drs Lewis and Cunningham to investigate. Plus copy memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the subject of the Delhi and Sind Sores.
Report on the 1876 cholera outbreak at Peshawar District
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pp 967-69. Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on a report on cholera in the Peshawar District during 1876, by Lieutenant A F Barrow, Officiating Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Peshawar District.
Annual report of the Agra Medical School for 1877-78
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pp 319-49. Report of the Medical school, providing details of pupils, examination results, the syllabus, and school behaviour. The report is preceeded by correspondence regarding school discipline and the suicide of a pupil.
Dr George King's report on the Java Cinchona Plantation
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pp 9-16. Report of George King, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden, Calcutta, on his visit to inspect Dutch cinchona plantations in Java, and investigations into the cultivation of cinchona calisaya; letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal, regarding guidance for the I...