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Bibliography of current work in tropical medicine and related fields, arranged by subject, compiled by Andrew Balfour, c 1902-1930.

Materials relating to Barclay Barrowman's work on malaria control, also more generally on his activities in the Federated Malay States and other parts of South East Asia, 1925-1978.

Correspondence of the Mayor and Aldermen of Kingston-upon-Hull. 1660-1698. Also their meeting book, 1668-1669, containing entries refering to the Plague and quarantine.

The collection comprises two sets of directives issued by the Mexico City Junta de Sanidad during the 1813 fever epidemics.

The items in the collection span the work of the Junta during the 1797-1798 smallpox epidemic, comprising a circular announcing the setting up in late 1797 of local charitable societies to be co-ordinated by the Junta, and the Junta's concluding report of early 1798.

The papers in this collection comprise official documentation issued by the authorities in New Spain (specifically, in Mexico). They include the appointment of José Gracida y Bernal (1760?-1815) as one of the Protomedicatos who were in charge of medical matters in New Spain (WMS/Amer.96); three certificates issued by Protomedicatos giving individuals licence to practice medicine (WMS/Amer.51, 64 and 97); a copy of a notice suspending quarantine procedures in the city of Mexico during the fever epidemic of 1813 (WMS/Amer.3); and a order authorising payment to F.X. de Balmis (1753-1819) for work on indigenous plants in the treatment of syphilis (WMS/Amer.62).