pp 185-245. Correspondence regarding the recommendations of the Finance Committee on Lunatic Asylum expenditure, with resolution of the Secretary to the Government of India thereon.
p 57. Forwarding information from the Commissioner of Coorg regarding the provision of two trained midwives, and the support of Lady Dufferin's Medical Aid Association.
pp 479-97. Communication from the Government of India, forwarding a note by W Walker, Officiating Surgeon General for the Government of India, on expenditure within lunatic asylums in India, with specific reference to establishment and diet costs.
pp 501-14. Resolution regarding the possibility of the State taking a more direct role in the prevention and treatment of leprosy in India; with accompanying correspondence from the various Presidencies to the Government of India, summarising provision for leprosy treatment. Includes statistics.
Establishment of stipends and scholarships by Municipal Committees and District Boards in the Dacca Division with a view to increase the supply of female native doctors and trained nurses
Proposal for providing certain additional columns in the Statement No. VII of Annual Reports of Lunatic Asylums, showing the several intoxicants as options for causes of insanity
Revision of the terms on which Sanitary Commissioners are appointed
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pp 341-60. Correspondence, including detailed memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on the Report of the Sanitary Commission for Madras for 1885; plus resolution thereon.
Number of persons treated by vaccinators in certain Districts of the Punjab during 1887, and the expenditure incurred on account of medicines distributed by them
Reduction in the strength of the Provincial Subordinate Medical Service in Bengal by the transfer of a number of Dispensary appointments to private practitioners