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Report on the Yellow Fever epidemic, printed for Parliament March 1858, being despatches...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/164
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This record is about the Report on the Yellow Fever epidemic, printed for Parliament March 1858, being despatches... dating from 1857 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 37/164
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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Report on the Yellow Fever epidemic, printed for Parliament March 1858, being despatches Nos 127 and 135 of 7 November and 3 December respectively. The report is signed by Commissioners Captain G LeM Tupper, Attorney General Duncan Stewart, Captain R W Clerke, Deputy Inspector John Rees, and Principal Medical Office Charles F Edwards.
The appendix to the report includes:
- various letters;
- questions circulated by the commissioners to various colonial officials, doctors, ministers, prison officers, and police officers;
- answers received from the various officials;
- a diagram showing 'the daily progress of the epidemic of Yellow Fever at Bermuda in 1856 from 18 August to 31 December… in Boaz and Ireland Islands'; and 'also the daily mean of the thermometer, barometer and hygrometer with the rainfall and prevailing winds during the same period';
- Health Acts and Quarantine Laws;
- printed papers relating to Yellow Fever in Bermuda collected by Governor Reid in 1843 and 1844;
- Report by Principal Medical Officer of the Convict Department Charles F Edwards.
Governor Freeman Murray, folios 1-297
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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CO 37
Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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