Proposal made by the Ceylon Government to apply the Ceylon Quarantine Rules to all arrivals from ports in India which may be considered to be infected with cholera or smallpox
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pp 469-71. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Colonial Secretary, Colombo, including copy of the Ceylon Quarantine Rules; plus copy telegrams received from the Government Agent at Jaffna, showing list of ports of India between which there is communication with the ports of nor...
Proposed extension of Clause 7, Section 19 of Act XXII of 1864 to the Cantonment of Dalhousie and its neighbourhood
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pp 389-93. Correspondence regarding the difficulties in extending the provisions of the act to cover female labourers employed on public works in the vicinity of the soldiers' barracks.
Measures taken in the Punjab to give effect to the civil scale of pay fixed for Civil Hospital Assistants
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pp 195-208. Contains tabulated list showing the names, date of rank, &c., of Civil Hospital Assistants serving in the Punjab Circle Department, corrected up to 31 March 1881, excluding local Native Doctors.
Precautions taken due to apparent plague outbreak in Mecca
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pp 371-72. Government of India forward to the Government of the Punjab copy extracts from the Aden News Report, plus translated letter from Sheikh Esaw Ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrain, advising that as a precaution against plague transmission, pilgrims will be prevented from entering Mecca.
Treatment of snake-bite by means of the injection of ammonia
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Report by A H Hilson, Civil Surgeon at Moradabad, reporting on his experience of injecting ammonia to treat snake-bite, as recommended by Prodfessor Halford. Hilson comments on Dr Fayrer's method of using artificial respiration in cases of cobra bite.