Papers regarding Act I of 1844, An Act for securing certain immunities and privileges to His Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic, His Family and Retinue
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of the Act, and lists of the male and female relations, and the principal officers, of the Nabob who were to be exempted from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Court of Commissioners for the recovery of small debts
Report by W Kirkland, Collector of Kaira, on the subject of the state of the tanks, drains and other public works within his district for the year 1841/42, with proceedings thereon
Scope & Content:
Includes on page 37 a colour sketch map of the district, giving a general view of the lines of the drains that had been recently completed; also showing the drains which were in contemplation; and those which were recommended to be dispensed with
Dr J R Martin recommends compiling a general medical topography of India
Scope & Content:
On the recommendation of Dr James Ranald Martin, the Bengal Government instruct all their medical officers to compile data on the medical topography of their particular locality, the results to be made up into a general medical topography.
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and the Government of India. It is the eleventh in a series of fifteen items on the Per...
Introduction of inoculation in Trichinopoly District, and the extension of the practice throughout the Madras Presidency
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Government of Madras award 500 pagodas to Surgeon James Richardson for his work in furthering the practice of inoculation in Trichinopoly, introduced several years prior by Nicol Mein. Order than an abstract report regarding inoculation be published in the vernacular languages and circulated. L...
Returns of medical pupils at the Medical College at Bolarum
Scope & Content:
Report of the annual examination of the Medical School at Bolarum, held on Wednesday the 30th December 1840, with returns of medical pupils, and related correspondence
Twelve persons are sent from Madras to Canton as live carriers of the cowpox vaccine, but find that their services are not required, the vaccine having been obtained from Manila (includes a list of the carriers, p 23).
