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Response of the Army Sanitary Commission to questions posed by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
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pp 111-24. Response to questions posed by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding the utility of quarantine as a means of preventing the spread of cholera; a water-bourne aetiology of cholera; the use of disinfectants in military and civil hospitals; sanitati...
Report of the Land Quarantine Committee regarding rules to be observed on the outbreak of smallpox and cholera in Cantonments
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pp 971-1025. Gore Ouseley, President of the Land Quarantine Committee, forwards the report on the question of land quarantine as a protection against cholera in India, comprising: seriatim result of enquiries and deliberations; copy of the evidence presented by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commission...
Remarks regarding suggestions made by E D Dickson on the promulgation of the new Turkish Pilgrim Traffic Regulations
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pp 89-100. Communications received from the Governments of Madras, Bombay, Bengal, and Burma, regarding suggestions made by E Dickson, British Delegate to the Constantinople Board of Health, viz: 1) that pilgrim ships be supplied with hand pumps for supplying sea water to pilgrims; 2) that no la...
Papers by the Army Sanitary Commission on the subject of cholera
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p 319, then Appendix A pp 07-10 [at the end of the 1872 section of the volume]. Comprising: Memorandum on Dr Bryden's Report on the influence of age and length of service as affecting mortality and invaliding of the European Army in the Bengal PresidencyMemorandum on D D Cunningham's Report on ...
Remarks on the implementation of the new Turkish Pilgrim Traffic Regulations
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pp 263-65. Copy circular from the Ottoman Health Department to its Agents regarding the application of the pilgrim traffic rules, plus comments thereon from E D Dickson, British Delegate to the Constantinople Board of Health. The Secretary of State requests the opinion of the Government of India.
A report on Captain E R Rost's attempts to cultivate the bacillus of leprosy at the Pasteur Institute of India with a view to the preparation of leprolin, by Lieutenant-Colonel D Semple
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pp 801-23. Copy of the report, plus correspondence thereon, advising that further use of the "leprolin" be prohibited.
Reports from the Director, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, and from Captain T S B Williams, relating to the treatment of leprosy by means of a vaccine prepared by Major Rost
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pp 1713. Reports and correspondence regarding the experiments conducted with the leprosy vaccine prepared by Major Ernst Rost, IMS, and the isolation and cultivation of a Streptithrix "leproides" and Bacillus Leprae by Captain Williams during his work at the Acworth Leper Asylum, Matunga. Compri...
Means to be adopted for the more efficient working of the rules for the prevention of venereal disease at Thayetmyo
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pp 499-511. Correspondence between the Government of India and Madras Military Departments, plus reports by Surgeon General E Balfour, Indian Medical Department, Madras; Surgeon Major W R Cornish, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras; and J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of In...
Remarks on the Annual Report of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts for 1877, and on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Berar for 1876
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pp 501-15. Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Berar for 1876, in particular regarding bowel complaints, cholera, smallpox and vaccination; plus Resolution thereon by the Government of India.
Order of the Turkish Government requiring passports in future for all passengers and pilgrims arriving at Jeddah
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pp 275-77. George Goschen, Ambassador at Constantinople, forwards communication from Dr Hussein Jehur, Acting Consul at Jeddah, regarding the requirement for pilgrims arriving at Jeddah to be in possession of passports, and that those arriving without would have them issued by Turkish authoritie...
