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Dr H Vandyke Carter's deputation to visit certain countries where leprosy prevails
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Correspondence between the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and Vandyke Carter, including the expenditure and itinerary of his tour through Italy, Algiers, Greece and Turkey.
Report on the outbreak of cholera to the north of Allahabad City, North-Western Provinces
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pp 181-86. Report by C Planck, Sanitary Commissioner with the North-Western Provinces, regarding the rise, progress, and extent of the cholera outbreak. Includes mortality and outbreak statistics. Plus remarks thereon by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
Plague deaths at Baghdad and Hillah, and the lifting of quarantine at Persian ports
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pp 379-80. Telegrams from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Resident at Turkish Arabia, reporting plague cases and deaths, and the lifting of the quarantine in Persian ports.
Results of trials with Dr H W Adams' specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea
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pp 521-23. Letters summarizing the results of trials with Dr H W Adam's specific for cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea. Dr Adams' suggested coal and carbon diet was not tested.
Manufacture of febrifuge from the bark grown on the Government cinchona plantations in Bengal
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pp 15-48. Correspondence and resolutions on the manufacture of febrifuge with the Bengal cinchona bark, including letters and reports from: Surgeon-Major George King, Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal, July 1882; W T Thiselton-Dyer, Assistant D...
Suggestions made by Sir Joseph Fayrer for lessening the mortality from snake-bite in India
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pp 1183-93. Letter from J Fayrer, enclosing copy of the report by Sir Lauder Brunton and Joseph Fayrer, "Experiments on a Method of Preventing Death from Snake-bite capable of Common and Easy Practical Application"; plus correspondence regarding the special lancet constructed by Arnold & Sons.
pp 93-112. Dispatch from the India Office to the Governor General of India in Council regarding cinchona production, enclosing: Report on the manufacture of sulphate of quinine and other cinchona alkaloids on Government account Report by Sir J Fayrer on a collection of papers showing the recent ...