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Malaria investigations and preventative measures: reports and recommendations
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pp 1281-1333. Secretary of State forwards the following reports and correspondence to the Governer-General of India in Council: Circular by Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), Colonial Secretary, regarding tropical medicine; the establishment of training schools in tropical medicine; the funding fo...
Report by Drs T R Lewis and D D Cunningham on the work done by them during the quarter ending 30th June 1877
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p 367. Report on the "arrangements for conducting systematic observations... to ascertain the leading chemical changes taking place in soil-air at varying distances from the surface of the ground".
Reports by Drs T R Lewis and D D Cunningham on the fever prevalent in Bombay in the early months of the year
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pp 567-68. Reports received from Lewis and Cunningham: regarding their research into the Bombay fever and their investigations into a possible relationship with famine conditions, reporting also on the German literature; and summarising the rest of their research.
Selection of a site for, and the management of, the proposed Pasteur Institute for Southern India
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pp 1371-87. Correspondence regarding a proposed site for the institute and potential arrangements for its management, including: Extract from a memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel W G King, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras, regarding the best climate for the location of the institute, and the probl...
Proposed establishment of a central institute for the study of health problems in India
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pp 1471-1539. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Central Committee of the Pasteur Institute of India regarding the establishment of a central bacteriological laboratory for the study of health problems in India, and numerous provincial laboratories. The location of the centra...
Outbreak of plague in Turkish Arabia and the quarantine arrangements which have been made for preventing the spread of the disease
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pp 153-71. Copy communications forwarded to the Home Department regarding the outbreak of plague at Baghdad, Tehran, along the Euphrates and the Tigris, quarantine arrangements and other measures - disinfection, destruction of woollen goods - taken to prevent its spread. Includes reports and te...
Remarks on the Annual Reports of the Sanitary Commissioners with the North-Western Provinces and the Punjab
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pp 133-48. Comprising: Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the fifth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the North-Western Provinces, 1872 Remarks of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Sanitary Administration of the Punjab for the year 1872 Communication by A C C De Renzy, Sa...
Progress made in sanitary improvements and in Military sanitation in India
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pp 59-420. Extensive collection of reports, correspondence and statistics, comprising: pp 59-61 Secretary of State for India requests information on the progress made towards: implementation of the "Suggestions in regards to Sanitary Works required for improving Indian Stations" (1864) arrangem...
Position of J M Cuningham on the use of quarantine as a preventive against the spread of cholera
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pp 41-42. Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, forwards a statement arguing that quarantine is useless as a means of preventing the spread of cholera, and should be prohibited.
Report by Assistant Surgeon Abdur Ruzzack [Abdur Razzack] on the sanitary condition of pilgrims at Mecca
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pp 469-534. Report submitted by Abur Razzack detailing his journey from Bombay to Mecca as a pilgrim undertaking the Hadj, plus correspondence thereon received from the Foreign Office, the Under Secretary of State for India; a report by Dr E Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health at Co...
