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Review by the Sanitary Commissioner of the working of the rules for the prevention of venereal disease among British Soldiers in the Bengal Presidency; plus reports on Lock Hospitals in Oudh
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pp 231-46(34). Comprising reports received from Lucknow, Seetapore and Fyzabad on the working of the Contagious Diseases Act, admissions to Lock Hospitals, and the registration and examination of prostitutes [pp 231-44]. [pp 245-46(34)] Report submitted by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner w...
Government enquiry into the supposed practice of wealthy Muslims providing for the poor to make pilgrimage to Mecca without sufficiently providing for their journey back or subsistence
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pp 397-473. Following receipt of a report from the British Council in Jeddah that many pilgrims do not have provision for their subsistence at Jeddah or return passage to Mecca, the Government of India request opinions on the matter from the Presidency Governments, and recommendations for any ap...
Crowded state of the mail steamers belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Company when carrying Indian passengers
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pp 225-27. Correspondence regarding alleged overcrowding, plus List of British India Steam Navigation Company's Steamers that arrived from the Persian Gulf during the year 1876-77, showing ship name, tonnage, and the number of deck passengers.
Measures proposed by the Government of India in view to relieving the Sanitary Commissioners in India of statistical duties
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pp 71-74. Resolution of the Government of India. Separate compilation of jail statistics to be discontinued, and compiled instead by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.