Increase in the charges for boarding and providing servants for the Ceylon youths admitted into the Calcutta Medical College from 16 to 20 Rupees per month for each
China Expedition: confirmation of two General Orders by Major General Lord Saltoun, Commanding the land forces in China, placing the services of certain officers at the disposal of Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
Scope & Content:
The officers were Captain Clement Edwards, Her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish; Captain T M Edwards, Her Majesty's 98th Regiment; Lieutenant De Havilland, Her Majesty's 55th Regiment; Lieutenant Sargent, Her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish; Captain D Bamfield, 56th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry.
Correspondence regarding certain modifications made in the system of pay and promotion in the class of native medical pupils in the Madras Presidency, with a view to assimilating that branch of the Subordinate Medical Service with the class of medical apprentices
Scope & Content:
Includes a list of 35 native medical pupils who commenced their studies at the Medical School in July 1842
Introduction in the Company's territories of the practice of vaccination against smallpox. Establishment of a vaccination hospital at Madras under the superintendence of William Horsman (includes statistics of patients).