Report from Paris on a successful method of treating dysentery
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The Governor of Pondicherry [the Marquis de Saint Simon] sends the Madras Government copy of a report he has received from Paris on a successful method of treating dysentery. Madras Government forward the report to the Madras Medical Board.
Minute by the Governor General of India [Marquess of Dalhousie], 29 May 1851, approving the establishment of an Agri-Horticultural Society at Lahore in the Punjab and the dedication of a public garden for the Society’s use, and approving a monthly donation of 200 rupees to further its aims, on c...
Detachments of H.M. 10th and H.M. 22nd Regiment of Foot, the Bengal Marine Regiment and a Company of Artillery are ordered to embark for service in Cuttack.
The sum of 30,927 sicca rupees is ordered to be paid to Major General Arthur Wellesley for expenses incurred by him in excess of his staff allowances. [Reply postponed by order of the Board of Control; for original draft (137 of 1808/09) see Bengal Draft Dispatches, F/3/22 pp 280-84]
The Master and six of the crew of the Hamburg ship Jenny which was captured by the Company's extra ships Lord Eldon and Carmarthen are received as prisoners of war at Bombay.
Shah Najji is sent on a mission from the King of Delhi [Akbar Shah] to the Governor General, [Lord Minto] - criticism of Akbar Shah's pretensions to regal authority vis-a-vis the Company.