This dataset comprises 2 samples of digitised India Office Medical Archives on cholera and medical topography (one manuscript and one printed item). All Open Government Licence. These files relate to cholera and medical topography in British India and can be used for teaching, study, etc.
Due to the extreme sizes of some of the zip archives (often well in excess of 4GB), we recommend using a dedicated zip archive application, such as 7-zip, to open and extract these datasets. For example, the built-in zip archive handling in Microsoft Windows (ie Right-click to 'Extract Here') is not designed to handle these sizes and will throw errors, even suggesting (falsely) that the archive is corrupt.