Several reports on municipal sanitary improvements in the town of Calcutta
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Contains: Report of the committee appointed by the Governor of Bengal on the subject of supplying drinking water, 1846 [including a reference to J R Martin's recommendation of establishing a fever hospital]; A note on the medical topography of Calcutta and its suburbs, 1840; Text of a draft Act ...
Further papers regarding the proposed exchange of vegetable products between Europe and India
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Table of Contents. Extracts from Public letters from the Government of India, 31st May to 4th December 1839, on the subject of the interchange of vegetable productions of India and Europe with a view to their naturalisation. Public Department letter, No.1 of 1839, to the Governor General of ...
Details of sections The item contains a title page and the following elements: extract of letter to the Court of Directors from the Government, 8 Mar 1831 extract of letter to the Government from the Court of Directors, 29 Sep 1830 extract of letter to Parker from Sir C. T. Metcalfe, in charge ...
Papers regarding endowments: the Sitapur endowment in the District of Hooghly - complaints against Meer Keramut Allee, the Mutawalli of the Hooghly Imambarah - management of the Khangah or Charitable Endowment at Sasaram, Zillah Shahabad - Dr Esdaile's remuneration for superintending the Hospital...
Papers relating to a Government charity school established in 1837 at Negapatam under the Madras Presidency to educate the children of the Protestant poor
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The papers include a copy of the prospectus for the school, accounts for the year 1838, and a list of the names of the children at the school in the year 1840 with a statement of the condition in life of their parents
Papers relating to obstructions which were alleged to exist in the commercial intercourse of British subjects with Siam
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Includes a copy of the 1827 treaty between the East India Company and the King of Siam, a list of imports from Siam during the official year 1842/43 and a list of exports to Siam during the official year 1842/43
