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Report of the Commissioners on the Yellow Fever at Bermuda in 1853: Forwards and...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/150
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- 1854
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Report of the Commissioners on the Yellow Fever at Bermuda in 1853:
Forwards and comments on the Yellow Fever report. Includes both the original and a printed version of the despatch and report. The report is signed by commissioners Lieutenant Colonel S Oakeley of the 56th Regiment, Attorney General John Harvey Darrell, and Solicitor General D Stewart.
The appendix to the report includes:
- various letters;
- the commission issued to the commissioners;
- questions circulated by the commissioners to various colonial officials, doctors, ministers, prison officers, and police officers;
- answers received from the various officials;
- a table of comparative mortality of troops at the several stations;
- Dr Inne's letter to the editor of the Royal Gazette.
Two other maps have been extracted:
- St George's Island 1854 Bermuda 'Officer's Quarters. Royal Barracks' [now MR 1/2069/1];
- St George's Island: 1854 Bermuda 'Plan of the town of Saint George's and its environs, (including the Ordnance lands, military buildings and Co)' [now MR 1/2069/2].
Officer Administering the Government Lieutenant Colonel Montgomery Williams RE, No 77, Folios 3-347
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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