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Memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras for 1877
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pp 813-33. Includes discussion of the famine in Madras, and D D Cunningham's paper On certain effects of starvation on vegetable and animal tissues (1877).
Imposition of quarantine at Aden and elsewhere in consequence of the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia [Iraq]
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pp 101-29. Copy correspondence and telegrams regarding the outbreak of plague in Mesopotamia, and actions taken by the Government of India in response. Includes communications received from the Government of Bombay; Brigadier-General F A E Loch, Political Resident, Aden; C A Cookson, Consul at E...
Note on the working of the Rules for the prevention of venereal disease among European Troops in the Bengal Presidency in 1873
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pp 381-405. Report by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, including: Statement A. Showing the area over which the rules for the prevention of venereal disease have been in force, the cost of establishment of Lock Hospitals, &c., during the year 1873. Statement B. Showing...
A dozen of the most venomous snakes to be found in Australia required for the Committee appointed to test the efficacy of artificial respiration in cases of snake-bite
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Specimens required for further testing, based on the work of Dr Fayrer - India, recommending the use of artificial respiration - and Dr Halford - Australia, recommending the injection of liqour ammonia.
Deputation of a Muslim doctor to Mecca to report on the sanitary condition of that place during the pilgrimage
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pp 767-72. Correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the Indian Medical Department, discussing arrangements and the details to be reported. Assistant Surgeon Abdoor Razzack [Abdur-Razzack], previously stationed at the Mayo Hospital, Calcutta, is selected.
Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Commission on Volumes III and IV of Dr Bryden's reports on the statistical history of the European Army in India and of the Native Army and Jail population in Bengal
Results of the trial made to test the efficacy of the cinchonine alkaloids and of the soluble tartrates manufactured in England on behalf of the Government
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pp 143-47. Letter from J M Cuningham, Surgeon-General of the Government of India, to the Home Department, enclosing a summary of reports on the cinchonine alkaloid and quinetum tartrates.
Sale by auction of any cinchona bark consigned to the India Office from Madras and Sikkim, and transmission to India of the stock of quinine and febrifuge which has accumulated in London
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pp 167-79. Government of India to the Secretary of State, forwarding correspondence from the Presidency Governments regarding the decision to revert, pending final decision on the question of local manufacture, to the former system of sale by auction. Encloses the following letters: G King, Supe...
Possible supervisory role for the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
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pp 177-87. Comprising: Army Sanitary Commission memorandum on the Ninth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bombay, 1872. Resolution thereon by the Government of India regarding the suggestion that the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India exercise some...
