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Information regarding the price of the Indian cinchona febrifuge and its therapeutic power furnished to the Secretary of State for the Government of Jamaica
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pp 17-18. Despatch, forwarding a copy letter by Surgeon Major George King, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal.
Inoculation of soldiers at Agra with the cholera virus; experiments conducted by Dr Waldemar Haffkine
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pp 367-73. Despatch to the Secretary of State forwarding answers to questions asked in the House of Commons concerning Waldemar Haffkine's scientific mission to India, and his trials in inoculating for cholera.
pp 419-29. Comprising: Communication from Colonel J P Nixon, Political Agent and Consul-General in Baghdad, reporting on the plague, quarantine, and the potential impact on the wool trade, and enclosing: Report by Surgeon Major W H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad, on his investigation into pla...
Operation of the Native Passenger Ships Act (Act VIII of 1876), plus reports on a voyage made by the S. S.Guy Mannering
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pp 463-76. Copy correspondence regarding the application of the Indian Native Passenger Ships Act and the Turkish Regulations to pilgrim vessels from Jeddah to Aden and Indian ports, and the status of the Messageries Maritimes and Austro-Hungarian Lloyds' vessels under the Act. Plus copy corres...
The best means of acquiring powers for the Government of India to undertake the duty - declined by the Board of Trade - of punishing breaches of section 230 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, which requires certain ships to carry Medical Practitioners
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pp 27-32. Copy correspondence between the Secretary of State for India and the Board of Trade (Marine Department) regarding recent cases brought under the Act, regarding the vessels Potomac, Arago, and the pilgrim vessel the S. S. Clan Gordon. The Government of Bengal raise concerns over the no...
Reports on leprosy and the oriental or delhi sore [leishmaniasis] in India
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Correspondence and numerous reports, principally concerning leprosy across the three Presidencies. Reports contain detailed case histories and medical notes; information on treatment regimens; statistics for leprosy cases across the Presidencies; discussion of provision for the treatment of lep...