Ventilation of
the hospital,
Overcrowd
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Hospital
drainage.
General
conclusions.
Sanitary
condition of
all buildings.
Water-supply
M Y S O R E D I V I S I O N .
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Drill .—Recruits are drilled daily morning and evening. Battalion and company drill
takes place usually twice a week between 6 and 7 o'clock A.M. The influence on health has
been favorable.
Drill.
Exercises.— There is a good gymnasium which all recruits are obliged to attend.
The Europeans have a billiard table.
Exercises.
Vaccination has been regularly carried on from week to week. 10 Natives and 1 European,
all having distinct marks of vaccination, were admitted with small-pox, and all recovered.
96 men were revaccinated, of whom 19 were successful.
Epidemic.— Cholera : 7 cases of this disease occurred during the year among the men
of the corps, and of these 3 proved fatal ; the first case was apparently imported, having
occurred in a man who had just returned from Trichinopoly, where the disease was prevalent.
There was nothing peculiar about the type of the disease. As usual, the first cases were the
most malignant. There was an epidemic of small-pox among the families, and tents had to be
pitched for these cases.
Fifty women and children and 11 men were treated under canvas. 2 women and 2
children died from the disease.
Vaccination:
Epidemic.
When the disease broke out I visited, accompanied by the commandant, every hut in the
lines, and examined every child as to whether it had been vaccinated or not ; the names of such
children as were not vaccinated were taken down at the time, and in due course they were
all vaccinated.
Ventilation of the hospital.— The ventilation of the hospital has been good throughout.
Overcrowding.—There has not been any overcrowding.
Hospital drainage .—The condition of the drainage and of the latrines about the hospital
has been very satisfactory. Earth sewage has been thoroughly carried out.
General conclusions.— On the whole the health of the sepoys of the regimental head-quarters
has been very good ; more particularly, considering the amount of famine and disease which
prevailed throughout the year.
There were out of an average daily strength of 458.833 admissions 297, and 7 deaths ; of
these 3 were from cholera, 1 from simple continued fever, 1. pneumonia, 1 obstruction of
bowels, and 1 dropsy.
Deputy Surgeon-General P. G. FitzGerald, M.D., inspected this corps on the
5th March 1878 and reports as under :—
Sanitary condition of lines.— The lines of the Sappers and Miners have been often described
in former reports. 10 huts have been added to the north end of each line to afford accom
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modation for some of the men who are or were obliged to live in the bazaar. The drainage
of the lines is good. Along the front of each line of huts there is a small V -shaped stone drain
which receives the drainage of the huts and is washed—I cannot say 'flushed'—daily by means
of the water chatties placed in front of each hut to provide against fire. These are emptied
doily into the drain, and refilled. These drains empty themselves into the main sewer of
the bazaar which skirts the south side of the lines.
Sanitary
condition
of lines.
Sanitary condition of all buildings .—There is a regimental latrine divided into two for the
sexes. This has been already described and condemned in former reports, and I understand that
sanction has been obtained for the erection of new ones in a better place.
Water-supply.— Water is obtained from wells in the lines. Last year a new well was sunk
by the regiment which affords an abundant supply of good water. It is of great depth, and is
lined with stone, A platform of concrete, with suitable, drainage, will be laid down.
Conservancy.— The lines are bounded on two sides by the Native bazaar from which they
are separated only by the width of the road. The conservancy of the bazaar is far less
satisfactory than that of the Sapper lines, and indeed the contrast between the two sides of
the road is very marked. The ground on the other two sides is under the control of the
Regimental authorities, and is well attended to.
Hospital.— No change has taken place in the regimental hospital since last inspection.
The two wards it contains are large and airy, and are kept scrupulously clean. The accom
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modation they afford has not been found sufficient lately, owing to the return to head-quarters
of several detachments which had been employed in superintending famine and other works ;
the surplus sick have therefore been accommodated in tents. There is a great want for some
place in which to treat sick members of the families of the sepoys, and an effort was lately
made to obtain sanction for the erection of a ward for women near the hospital, but I believe
unsuccessfully.
Conservancy.
Hospital.