Hospital.
Principal
diseases.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.
Hospital
water-supply.
General
conclusions.
Lines.
Sanitary
condition of
all buildings.
Hospital water-supply. —The well water is brought from the lines to the hospital by a
puckali.
General conclusions. —If it were not that all these multitudinous annual reports and returns
have to be prepared in duplicate (in triplicate, counting the book copies) by the two Dressers
forming the entire office and subordinate medical establishment of the regiment, in addition to
their current duties, one might be disposed to give some information under this head. As it is,
however, I feel bound to make every thing as brief as possible and to leave general conclusions
to be inferred from the answers to the previous questions.
Deputy Surgeon-General W. H. Rean, M.D., inspected this corps on the
3rd December 1878 and reports as follows :—
Lines. —The huts are particularly clean and neat, and no cess-pools or defective drainage was
visible. The gutters, however, outside the huts are not lined with either brick or stone, and in
consequence a certain amount of sewage must be absorbed into the ground as the drainage is
altogether natural from the channel cut in the soil.
Sanitary condition of all buildings. —During the year a guard-room has been built close to the
hospital for the guard on duty, who formerly remained in the verandah, and it was occupied in
October. The four large latrines connected with the lines are built on a different plan from other
public latrines at this station, and are very satisfactory. Inside the compound wall of the latrine
are several compartments around the sides, consisting of three units in each, a unit consisting of two
large stones with dry earth between and a gutter in front for the urine to pass off to a cistern
outside the wall. A small pucka house is also inside for storing dry earth, and the walls are
painted with coal-tar to a height of about 3 feet. The urine and excreta are conveyed to a distance
in filth carts and buried.
Water-supply.
Water-supply. —There are six wells in the lines.
Conservancy.
Conservancy. —The conservancy of the lines is well attended to and the huts look neat and
clean. No collections of filth are allowed to exist, nor is there any rank undergrowth about. The
latrines and the land around are quite pure and in a very satisfactory condition.
Hospital. —The site is not very good as it is near the main road and has many buildings very
close to it. The hospital accommodation is sufficient for the requirements of the regiment.
Water-supply is furnished by puckallies from the regimental wells already noticed.
Principal diseases.—The principal diseases have been
Cholera
..
..
..
.. 10 Pneumonia
..
..
..
3
Malarious fever
..
..
.. 280 Diarrhœa
..
..
.. 13
Dysentery
..
..
..
.. 20 Bronchitis
..
..
.. 10
Regiment Light Infantry.
STATION—DEODEA ; en route TO HOSHUNGABAD.
Average strength ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.. 696
Do.
do. present
..
..
..
..
..
.. 656
Admissions
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.. 633
Daily sick ..
..
..
..
..
..
....
..
.. 18
Deaths in hospital
..
..
..
..
..
..
3
Do. out of hospital
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
Pensioned ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
Sick leave ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
3
The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding, as
contrasted with previous years :--
.
Years.
Stations .
Rate per Cent. of
Average Strength Present.
Average Strength.
Admissions. Daily Sick. All Deaths. Pensioned. Sick Leave.
1875 ..
.. Secunderabad.
..
92.61
4.87
. 8 9
1.19
2 . 6 8
1876 ..
..
Do.
..
68.79
3.34
1.01
4.07
2.18
1877 ..
..
Do.
..
95.82
3.12
1 . 3 0
.86
1.15
Average ..
85.74
3.77
1.06
2.04
2.00
1878 ..
.. Deodea
..
..
96.49
2.74
.57
.14
.43