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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=VwVHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA39 ''Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China''] by G.F. Davidson (1846). Singapore covered in Chapters 3 and 4.  Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=VwVHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA39 ''Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China''] by G.F. Davidson (1846). Singapore covered in Chapters 3 and 4.  Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA725 ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore''] by Pharoah &Co (1855). Singapore, page 725.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA725 ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore''] by Pharoah &Co (1855). Singapore, page 725.
*''An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore (1819-1867)'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/ananecdotalhist00buckgoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''Volume 1'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/ananecdotalhist01buckgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] by Charles Burton Buckley 1902 Archive.org
*''An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore (1819-1867)'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/ananecdotalhist00buckgoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''Volume 1''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/ananecdotalhist01buckgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] by Charles Burton Buckley 1902 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktosinga00reitgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Handbook to Singapore with Map, and a Plan of the Botanical Gardens''] by George Murray Reith 1892 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktosinga00reitgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Handbook to Singapore with Map, and a Plan of the Botanical Gardens''] by George Murray Reith 1892 Archive.org
====Medical history of Singapore====
====Medical history of Singapore====

Revision as of 00:04, 11 February 2010

In 1819, the British East India Company, led by Sir Stamford Raffles, established a trading post on the island of Singapore, which was used as a port along the spice route.

Singapore formed part of the Straits Settlements, together with Penang (Prince of Wales Island) and Malacca.

Records

  • Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library. Prince of Wales Island [Penang], Malacca and Singapore 1799-1829 in IOR N/8.
The LDS film number for these records is 498606, item 2. LDS batch number for baptisms 1828-1829 C310051. Data for the baptisms 1828-1829 has been transcribed on the LDS website. Select the IGI Search and enter Region Asia and batch number C310051, and baptismal records for Singapore on film 498606 will be shown. It is not known whether the data is a complete transcription or not.
Returns are continued in the Bengal returns 1830-1868, N/1. For Malacca marriages 1820-1824, see also IOR: R/9/39/3.
  • This LDS catalogue entry gives details of the church and cemetery records available for Singapore.

Newspapers

External Links

Encylopedia entries

Institutions

Historical books online

Medical history of Singapore

  • Cholera(1973 Mar)
  • The Pauper Hospital (8 Parts-1973 Mar; 1974 Mar; 1975 Jun; 1975 Sep; 1975 Dec; 1976 Mar; 1976 Jun; 1976 Sep)
  • Smallpox and Vaccination (4 Parts- 1973 Dec; 1976 Dec; 1977 Mar; 1977 Jun)
  • Prostitution And Venereal Disease (2 Parts-1980 Oct; 1980 Dec)
  • The Mental Diseases Hospital Singapore (1st 100 Years) (4 Parts-1992 Aug; 1992 Oct;1992 Dec;1993 Feb)
  • The Coroner (2005 Oct)
  • Radiology (2006 Feb)
  • Anaesthetics (2006 Mar)
  • Pharmacy (2006 May).

Also see Apothecary and Nurse

Other

  • Rootsweb Singapore Mailing List - for details refer Mailing lists