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Report on the Government Cinchona Plantation in Bengal and the Report of the Government Quinologist for 1881-82
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pp 1-13. Communication from the Government of Bengal, enclosing: Twentieth Annual Report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim - by Surgeon-Major George King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of Cinchona cultivation in Bengal Quinologist's report for 18...
Report on the Government Cinchona Plantations in Bengal and of the Government Quinologist for the year 1883-1884
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pp 201-15. Dispatch of the Secretary of State, enclosing: Twenty-second Annual Report of the Government Cinchona Plantation in British Sikkim by Surgeon-Major G King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal Quinologist's report for 1883-84 Reso...
Outbreak of cholera at the Gaya Jail and at Lucknow, plus results of Waldemar Haffkine's experimental inoculation on soldiers
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pp 175-204. Correspondence regarding cholera outbreaks at the Gaya Jail and Lucknow, and the results of Haffkine's inoculation of prisoners and soldiers. Includes reports on the outbreak of cholera in the jail, including a register of cholera cases at the jail for the year 1894 [identifies patie...
Report on the results of inoculation against cholera performed at Serampore according to Dr Haffkine's system
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pp 349-51. Communication from the Government of Bengal, forwarding report by the Chief Medical Officer and Sub-Divisional Officer on Haffkine's inoculation work in Serampore.
Proposal is made by the Government of Bengal in connection with the Professorships of Pathology and Physiology in the Medical College, Calcutta, and for conducting bacteriological research in Bengal
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pp 1271-95. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Bengal, with enclosed note by Surgeon-Colonel T H Hendley, Inspector General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal: Note on the appointment of a successor to Brigade-Surgeon D Cunnincham and the establishment of a Research Department (1893).
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel G A Emerson, Superintendent of the MacLaren Leper Asylum, Dehra Dun, on the use of "Europhen" in the treatment of Leprosy
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pp 77-87. Report of Surgeon Emerson of his medical trials with the drug Europhen, received from Friedrich Bayer & Co., including detailed case study descriptions for named leprosy patients.
A simple account of the causation of malarial fever and an indication of the practical measures towards its prevention based upon the recent discoveries on the subject
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pp 1431-42. Government of India forward copies [one printed] of a circular by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Madras on the causes and treatment of malaria, based on the Handbook of Gnats and Mosquitoes by Major Giles.