Report on the special enquiry which has been made regarding cholera in the Jubbulpore District [Jabalpur]
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pp 255-96. Copy of the special report by Surgeon Major S C Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner with the Central Provinces, including Appendix I. Correspondence between the Sanitary Commissioners with the Government of India and the Central Provinces regarding the enquiry; and Appendix II. Report of ...
Correspondence regarding certain preparations of cinchona febrifuge other than quinine which have been tried in India
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pp 3-4. Letter to the Governor General of India from the Secretary of State forwarding a letter by C R Markham regarding the cinchona bark grown at Darjeeling, commenting on the amorphous alkaloid of the red bark of Rungbi, and requesting that a quantity of Mr Wood's cinchona febrifuge be forward...
Arrangements for medical education in the Madras Presidency and proposed reorganisation of the teaching staff of the Medical College, Madras
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pp 25-58. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Madras regarding the Medical College, Madras, including: Statement of provision for revision of the establishment; Report of the Madras University Commission appointed to inspect the Madras Medical College [1911]; Communication from W...
Excessive mortality from bowel complaints in Berar
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pp 23-42. Comprising: Report by J Lumsdaine, Bombay Sanitary Commissioner, including statement showing mortality from bowel complaints for 1866-72 in Bombay Presidency Registration Districts, plus comparative prevalence of bowel complaints in the registration districts according to different sea...
Utilisation of latrine sewage for manure: selection of Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] for the experiment.
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pp 281-96. Communication S C Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner with the Central Provinces and Berar, regarding the proposals of the War Office Sanitary Commission, on the relative utility of water- and dry-earth sewage systems. Enclosing: G Sutherland, Report on the best method of removal and disp...
Proposals by Dr Abdur Ruzzack [Abdur Razzack] in connection with the pilgrimage to Mecca
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pp 131-51. Dispatches from the Secretary of State for India, forwarding opinions of the Governments of Bengal and Bombay on the recommendations of Assistant Surgeon Abdur Razzack that a Pilgrim Health Officer and Agent be established at Bombay, and that a Pilgrim Agency be established at Jeddah....
Account of the proceedings and results of the International Medical Congress held at Amsterdam
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pp 411-15. Contains report by Sir J Fayrer; report by Surgeon Major Timothy Richard Lewis; and the text 'Quarantine in regard to Cholera', a speech delivered by Lewis.
Transfer of Surgeons T R Lewis and D D Cunningham from the Military Department to the Home Department
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pp 95-101. Lewis and Cunningham transferred with a view to their being employed as Special Assistants to the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, without diverting them from the special enquiry in to cholera.