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Drill.
Vaccination.
Epidemic.
Hospital
ventilation.
Drill.—The drills appear to be beneficial to the health of the men, and no recommendations
have been required on this subject.
Vaccination has been regularly carried on; no cases of small-pox have occurred among the
men of the wing.
Epidemic.—There has been no epidemic disease.
Hospital ventilation has been good ; no overcrowding has occurred.
Hospital drainage has been good, and the latrines properly looked after. The dry-earth
system has been carried out efficiently.
Hospital
drainage.
Hospital water-supply has been abundant and of good quality.
Hospital
water-supply.
General conclusions.—During the past year, as I have already observed, there has been a
considerable increase in the number of admissions from ague, and this I believe to have been
due chiefly to the longer residence of the men in a malarious climate. The cases were
however of a mild type and yielded readily to treatment. The most severe and obstinate cases
occurred among men who had contracted the disease at Hoshungabad. No fatal cases occurred
in hospital and no men were sent on sick leave. One man died while on furlough from
cholera at Chicacole. The death-rate compares very favorably with that for the previous year,
when seven deaths occurred. On the whole the general health of the wing may be regarded as
f a v o r a b l e
Deputy Surgeon-General J. R. Theobalds inspected the head-quarters and wing
at Hoshungabad on the 27th November 1877 and reports as follows :—
General
conclusions.
Sanitary condition of lines.– I found the lines very clean and the huts in fair order. The
ventilation of the huts is as usual through a low door in front, the interstices of the tiles of the
roof, and where the poles supporting the roof rest on the mud walls. The drainage from the
natural configuration of the ground is good through drains cut on both sides of the streets, and
these empty themselves into the nullah on the northern boundary of the lines and so into the
Bagdurrah river.
Water-supply.—An abundant supply of good drinking water from two wells in the lines
and one covered well in the centre of the northern parade ground ; well away from the soakage
of the lines.
Conservancy of the lines, good. Five dust-bin.s which are emptied daily. I would again
recommend that more dust-bins be put up in these lines, and that they should be built upon mud
platforms, about one foot high, with holes at the bottom of each wall for ventilation and drainage.
Hospital.—For a full description of hospital and out-houses see my Annual Inspection
Report dated 22nd November 1876.
Sanitary
condition of
lines.
Water-supply
Conservancy.
Hospital.
I found all the buildings, wards, latrine, and out-houses in good repair, very clean, and all
the surroundings were tidy and in perfect order ; the drainage very good from the natural
configuration of the ground in which the hospital is built : ventilation very good through doors,
windows, large glazed ventilators in each gable end and ridge-roof ventilator. Accommodation
sufficient. An abundant supply of good drinking water. The latrine is always very clean
and well worked on the dry-earth system.
3 1 s t R e g i m e n t R i g h t I n f a n t r y .
STATION—RAEPORE.
Arrived from Berhampore, 1st March 1873.
Average strength
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Do. do. presen
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Admissions
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Daily sick•••
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Deaths in hospital
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Pensioned...
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Sick leave
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