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Arrangements for medical education in the Madras Presidency and proposed reorganisation of the teaching staff of the Medical College, Madras
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pp 25-58. Correspondence between the Governments of India and Madras regarding the Medical College, Madras, including: Statement of provision for revision of the establishment; Report of the Madras University Commission appointed to inspect the Madras Medical College [1911]; Communication from W...
Excessive mortality from bowel complaints in Berar
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pp 23-42. Comprising: Report by J Lumsdaine, Bombay Sanitary Commissioner, including statement showing mortality from bowel complaints for 1866-72 in Bombay Presidency Registration Districts, plus comparative prevalence of bowel complaints in the registration districts according to different sea...
Abstracts of Proceedings of the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, January-December 1866
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This volume contains the Abstracts of Proceedings of the Political Department of the Government of Bombay for the months of January-December 1866. These Proceedings comprise abstracts of correspondence sent to the Government of Bombay, and the resolutions taken by the Political Department in rel...
Utilisation of latrine sewage for manure: selection of Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] for the experiment.
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pp 281-96. Communication S C Townsend, Sanitary Commissioner with the Central Provinces and Berar, regarding the proposals of the War Office Sanitary Commission, on the relative utility of water- and dry-earth sewage systems. Enclosing: G Sutherland, Report on the best method of removal and disp...
Proposals by Dr Abdur Ruzzack [Abdur Razzack] in connection with the pilgrimage to Mecca
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pp 131-51. Dispatches from the Secretary of State for India, forwarding opinions of the Governments of Bengal and Bombay on the recommendations of Assistant Surgeon Abdur Razzack that a Pilgrim Health Officer and Agent be established at Bombay, and that a Pilgrim Agency be established at Jeddah....
Account of the proceedings and results of the International Medical Congress held at Amsterdam
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pp 411-15. Contains report by Sir J Fayrer; report by Surgeon Major Timothy Richard Lewis; and the text 'Quarantine in regard to Cholera', a speech delivered by Lewis.
Instructions for vaccinators by Dr W Ingledew, compiled from the writings of Edward Jenner and others
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Letter from M Wilks, the Acting Resident of Mysore, to the Government of Madras, enclosing papers compiled by William Ingledew to be used as written instructions for native vaccinators. Wilks comments on the receptiveness of Hindu medical practitioners to western medicine. Encloses: 'On the Cow...
Transfer of Surgeons T R Lewis and D D Cunningham from the Military Department to the Home Department
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pp 95-101. Lewis and Cunningham transferred with a view to their being employed as Special Assistants to the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, without diverting them from the special enquiry in to cholera.
Response of the Army Sanitary Commission to questions posed by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India
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pp 111-24. Response to questions posed by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, regarding the utility of quarantine as a means of preventing the spread of cholera; a water-bourne aetiology of cholera; the use of disinfectants in military and civil hospitals; sanitati...
Report of the Land Quarantine Committee regarding rules to be observed on the outbreak of smallpox and cholera in Cantonments
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pp 971-1025. Gore Ouseley, President of the Land Quarantine Committee, forwards the report on the question of land quarantine as a protection against cholera in India, comprising: seriatim result of enquiries and deliberations; copy of the evidence presented by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commission...
