Regarding the Bengal Vaccination Report for 1878-79
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Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor regarding the [smallpox] vaccination report for Bengal, plus letter from the Government of India to the Government of Bengal regarding the Bengal vaccine establishment.
Letters from Dr Henry MacCormac, advocating the use of dilute sulphuric acid as a prophylactic against cholera, and for the use of "earth closets" as a sanitary measure.
Charitable Dispensaries in Bengal for the year 1879
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pp 175-87. Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor, Bengal, on the charitable dispensaries within Bengal Presidency, commentating on the annual report, plus correspondence regarding forms for recording financial information.
pp 153-235. Reports collated by provincial Indian Governments and Administrations, to determine: the extent to which leprosy exists among the people in each district; if localised, the locality in which it is chiefly found; the special peculiarities of such localities, if there are any; the spec...
Trial of cinchona febrifuge in the Madras Presidency
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pp 75-79. Correspondence regarding trials of the cinchona febrifuge from Sikkim, and its possible substitution for 75 percent of the supply of quinine in Madras Presidency.
Correspondence regarding the report on the Government cinchona plantation at British Sikkim for 1878
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pp 143-44. Correspondence regarding the satisfactory report, enclosing a letter from J Eliot Howard regarding the supply of raw materials to manufacture sulphate of quinine and Mr Wood's mixed cinchona alkaloids.
Selection of a Government Quinologist, plus reports on the production of cinchona alkaloids
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pp 283-307. Correspondence and memoranda regarding the selection of a successor to C H Wood as Government Quinologist, and concerning: the production of the "triple" and cinchona febrifuges; the desirability of manufacturing pure alkaloids from succirubra bark, and the establishment of a small fa...
Proposal to issue a revised edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia in England
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pp 213-340. Correspondence and reports regarding the compilation of a revised Indian Pharmacopoeia to be published in England. Discusses the ongoing suitability of Waring's Pharmacopoeia (1868) and Mohideen Sheriff's supplement (1869). Several reports received providing detailed lists of Indian...
Introduction of the cinchona febrifuge into the civil hospitals and dispensaries in the North-Western Provinces
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pp 103-06. Correspondence and abstracts of reports regarding the introduction of the cinchona febrifuge in the North-Western Presidencies, and comparing the efficacy of the febrifuge with quinine and other preparations.