If regiment
has been on
the march.
Ventilation
and drainage
of men's
barrack-
rooms, huts,
&c.
Water-
supply.
HYDERABAD SUBSIDIARY FORCE.
87
If regiment has been on the march.—The Head-quarters and Right Wing marched from the
Begumpett lines on the 18th November en route to Vizagapatam, and arrived within 25 miles of
their destination on the 31st December 1878. Cholera broke out at Rajahmundry on 19th
December and continued in regiment during rest of march.
Ventilation and drainage of men's barrack-rooms, huts, &c.—The huts are badly ventilated, but
well drained. The guard-rooms are well ventilated and drained.
Water-supply.—In the early months of the year, before the rains set in, the wells were very
low, but for the rest of the year the supply was abundant and good from four wells about the lines.
Diet.—Food-grains very dear though plentiful. Vegetables not so abundant as usual and dearer.
Foot-soreness. —Very little foot-soreness occurred in the Right Wing when on the march,
simply because the men preferred carrying their boots in their hands to wearing them on the
feet. Some few wore their boots always, but they had provided themselves with socks, which
most of the men were without. There would have been a great amount of foot-soreness if the
men had worn their boots without socks.
Epidemics.—Two cases of cholera amongst men and 6 amongst the families, occurred in the
regimental lines in the month of July. This disease also broke out in the Right Wing when it had
been a month on the march, and continued till the end of the march. The outbreak was
attributable to the regiment having been unavoidably detained in the neighbourhood of a village in
which cholera was present.
Hospital ventilation.—Good.
General conclusions.—The general health of the troops during the year has been satisfactory,
and compares very favorably with the previous year, ague particularly having been very much
less. Deaths have been numerous and exceed those of 1877. The Left Wing remains in the
Begumpett lines, Secunderabad, and does not march to join the Head-quarters at Vizagapatam
till 12th February 1879.
Deputy Surgeon-General W. H. Rean, M.D., inspected this corps on the 13th
November 1878 and reports as under :-
Lines.—The huts are in good order, capacious and well built, with a good courtyard, in one
portion of which is a small domestic latrine and another part is devoted to cooking. The drains
of the main streets are V-shaped and lined with brick, allowing from the configuration of the
ground sewage from the huts to be washed away, but also from their imperfect construction
permitting a good deal to penetrate the soil.
Sanitary condition, of all
buildings— The buildings in connection with the lines, viz., school.
rooms, cells, guard-rooms and latrines, are clean and in good repair. Only one large public
latrine exists it is built at a convenient distance from the lines on the west. It is resorted tc
by all who do not make use of their own domestic latrines.
Water-suppiy.—Water-supply is good and ample, and from the abundant rainfall this yea]
of excellent quality, it is obtained from several very large wells adjoining the lines, and the
walls of the wells and the adjoining ground are carefully conserved.
Conservancy of the neighbourhood.—The conservancy of the neighbourhood of the lines is
carefully attended to, and I have noticed no defect of any importance in their vicinity. In
consequence of the heavy rains there is in all parts of the station a thick growth of weeds, which
tends in some degree perhaps to the production of fever, but this excessive growth will soon be
checked with the setting in of the dry weather and the ground become bare again.
Hospital.—The hospital is in excellent order, clean and tidy. It is higher and better
ventilated than most Native hospitals, having been originally built for Europeans.
Epidemics.
Hospital
ventilation.
General
conclusions.
Lines.
Sanitary
condition of
all buildings.
Water-
supply.
Conservancy
of the neigh-
bourhood.
Hospital.
Diet.
Foot-
soreness.
10th Regiment Native Infantrg,
STATION—SECUNDERABAD.
Arrived from Saugor 18th February 1873.
Average strength
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684
Do.
do. present
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666
Admissions
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.
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.
432
Daily sick
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22
Deaths in hospital
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14
Do. out of hospital
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1
Pensioned
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Sick leave
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6
The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding, as
contrasted with previous years:—