pp 281-83. Communication from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General of India in Council, regarding the sanitary improvements needed in Simla as summer seat of the Government of India, and arrangements for funding.
pp 123-24. Correspondence, plus request from the Government of India for a report on the existing quarantine arrangements, their effectiveness and cost, and whether there have been any instances where an absence of enforced quarantine procedure allowed the importation and spread of disease.
p 133. Copy telegram from the Resident at Bushire, advising Government of the apparent appearance of plague, that vessels arriving from Busreh [Basra] will be inspected, and advising the same measures be adopted at Muscat. Government of India request that suitable measures be taken.
pp 239-57. Correspondence regarding the proposed International Sanitary Convention designed to give practical effect to the conclusions of the Vienna Sanitary Conference 1874, and the measures implemented following the Constantinople Sanitary Conference 1866. Discusses research into cholera; qua...
pp 73-76. Correspondence between the Government of Bengal and the Government of India, plus: report by J G French, Health Officer at the Port of Calcutta; and extract from a report on the state of the river bank, with special reference to the outbreak of cholera on board the steam ship Viceroy, b...