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Operation of the Native Passenger Ships Act (Act VIII of 1876), plus reports on a voyage made by the S. S.Guy Mannering
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pp 463-76. Copy correspondence regarding the application of the Indian Native Passenger Ships Act and the Turkish Regulations to pilgrim vessels from Jeddah to Aden and Indian ports, and the status of the Messageries Maritimes and Austro-Hungarian Lloyds' vessels under the Act. Plus copy corres...
The best means of acquiring powers for the Government of India to undertake the duty - declined by the Board of Trade - of punishing breaches of section 230 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, which requires certain ships to carry Medical Practitioners
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pp 27-32. Copy correspondence between the Secretary of State for India and the Board of Trade (Marine Department) regarding recent cases brought under the Act, regarding the vessels Potomac, Arago, and the pilgrim vessel the S. S. Clan Gordon. The Government of Bengal raise concerns over the no...
Asst Surgeon R H England visit to Shevaroy and Chundamungalam Hills
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Asst Surgeon R H England appointed to visit the Shevaroy and Chundamungalam [Sendamangalam] hills [Kollaimalai Hills] in order to report on their medical topography.
Reports on leprosy and the oriental or delhi sore [leishmaniasis] in India
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Correspondence and numerous reports, principally concerning leprosy across the three Presidencies. Reports contain detailed case histories and medical notes; information on treatment regimens; statistics for leprosy cases across the Presidencies; discussion of provision for the treatment of lep...
Dr Mueller's method of treating snake-bite by injections of strychnine
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pp 59-66. Correspondence regarding trials of Dr Mueller's method for treating snake-bite, including detailed reports received from Surgeons, and case histories for named patients; and a letter from Surgeon-Lieutenant Robert Henry Elliot, requesting that further experiments into the use of strychn...
Remarks on the Reports by the Commissioners of the Patna, Cooch Behar, Chota and Nagpore Divisions on the working of the Cantonment Lock Hospitals for the year 1874
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pp 453-58. Resolution of the Government of Bengal, plus comments of the Government of India.
Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner of the North-Western Provinces for 1869
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pp 255-56. Commenting in particular on the high mortality rate from malaria cholera and dysentery, and their relation to the sanitary and irrigation works carried out.
Opinion of the Government of Bengal on the causes of the epidemic fever at Bardwan [Burdwan] and Hugli [Hooghly]
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p 343. Government states its disagreement with the conclusions drawn by the Army Sanitary Commission, arguing that a complete examination of the levels and drainage system should be carried out in order to ascertain the cause(s) of the fever.