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often been condemned as unsuitable and insufficient for its purpose, and its removal to the old
European Infantry Hospital in the Commissariat Square, which has, I believe, been sanctioned,
will, when effected, supply a want long felt and often pointed out. The boarded floor of one of
the wards in the regimental hospital at Mercara was taken up, and the space underneath cleaned,
laid down with concrete, and ventilated. The necessity for this was pointed out in the last
report.
The hospital at Hunsur was overcrowded, although the Civil Dispensary had been removed
from it to another building ; but the space thus rendered available could not be utilized until
shelves had been put up for the medicines and other stores that were kept in a portion of the main
ward, partitioned off from that occupied by the sick.
All the hospitals were lime-washed according to the regulations.
Latrines .—The standard plan of latrines for Natives has proved a failure, as was predicted
in a former report, and a new and simpler arrangement is required. Nothing could be better for
a small latrine than the plan of the hospital latrines of the native regiments at Bangalore.
The Sappers and Miners are still without the new latrines which were sanctioned some time ago,
and it is better that it should be so until a new standard plan replaces the existing one. The
covered drain which connected the Sapper latrines with the main sewer of the town has been
removed, and the urine is now received into a tub outside, which is removed in the scavenger cart
daily. A new covered latrine for the Right Wing of the 28th Native Infantry at Mercara was
erected last year, but is not a success. The entrance is too narrow, and the internal arrange-
ments are objectionable. The hospital latrines of this corps have been somewhat improved
during the year : more air and light have been let in, but still not enough. The arrangement of
the seats has also been altered for the better. The latrine of the Garrison Hospital at Bellary is
unsuited to native habits and is consequently always foul. The soil under the floor is
saturated with urine.
A suitable latrine for the Native Infantry Hospital at Bellary is still a desideratum.
Those originally built are not used as such owing to their defective position. The regimental
latrines in the west hutting lines at Bangalore answer their purpose well. There is an abundant
supply of water from the wells close by for flushing the urine channels, which otherwise
would become a nuisance.
In designing standard plans of latrines for Natives it should be remembered, that no single
plan will suit all stations and all circumstances ; where there is plenty of water at hand at all
times a plan of latrine may be adopted which would be unsuitable where the supply was scaree
or intermittent. In the latter case there should not be a channel to carry off the urine, but this
should be voided into chatties or buckets which could be emptied into a larger receptacle outside.
Lavatories. —The bath-rooms attached to the hospitals are all provided with tubs and supplied
with water. The sepoys and their families perform their ablutions in the enclosures in front of
their huts, the waste water finding a passage into the open drain outside through an earthenwar
e p i p e i n t h e w a l l .
Clothing and bedding .—The supplies of hospital clothing and bedding are maintained at the
regulated allotment.
STATEMENT NO.1
Latrines.
Lavatories.
Clothing and
bedding.
Divisions.
Strength.
Admitted.
Died.
Invalided.
Average
Daily
Sick.
In.
Out.
Pensioned. Discharged.
Mysore Division
..
3,114
2.488
42
17
156
6
86
Ceded Districts
..
1,611
1.591
35
..
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3
69
Divisions.
Years.
Admitted.
Ratio per Mille of Average Strength.
Died.
Invalided.
Average
Daily
Sick.
In.
Out.
Pensioned. Discharged.
Mysore Division
..
1877
780.08
14.92
2.27
11.02
0.64
22.05
1878
798.97
13.48
5.46
50.10
1.92
27.62
Ceded Districts .. 1877
1099.82
15.85
..
18.20
0.58
37.58
1878
987.58
21.72
..
29.17
1.86
42.83
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