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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.
HYDERABAD SUBSIDIARY FORCE.
Average strength ...
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3,306
Do, do. present ...
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3,188
Total admissions.. .
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. . .
...
. . .
. . .
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2,798
Daily sick ...
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. . .
...
86
Deaths in hospital ...
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41
Do. out of do.
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12
Pensioned
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104
Sick leave
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39
The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding as
contrasted with previous years :—
Years.
Rate per Cent. of
Average Strength Present.
Average Strength.
Admissions.
Daily Sick.
All Deaths.
Pensioned.
Sick Leave.
1874
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...
144·11
6·32
1·26
4.14
1·99
1 8 7 5
84·45
3·33
1· 13
2.57
2·05
1876
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...
...
84·59
2·93
1· 63
2·61
1·69
Average ...
104·38
4·19
1·34
3·10
1·91
1877
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87 76
2·69
1·60
3·14
1·17
The following corps were serving in this division on the 31st December 1877 :—
1st Regiment L. C
.
1st do. N. I,
3rd Regiment Palamcottah, I. I
.
29th do. N. I.
40th Regiment N. I
.
Detachment, Sappers and Miners.
Constitution
of the force.
Lines.
Deputy Surgeon-General. W. Williamson was in medical administrative charge
of this division during the year and reports as follows :—
Constitution of the force.— The constitution of the force at Secunderabad remains the same
as last year, with the exception of the removal by rail of G- and H Companies of the Sappers
and Miners to Bangalore on famine duty ; the former on the 11th, l 2th, and 14th May, and the
latter on the 19th and 20th October. The A Company arrived here from Bangalore on the 8th
and 9th of May in the place of the above companies removed.
Lines.— No change has taken place in any of the lines occupied by the Native troops
certain alterations were suggested by the " Quartermaster-General and Surgeon-General,
"Madras, with a view of improving the size of the huts and the drainage in the lines of the 3rd Light
Infantry, reported both by myself and the Medical Officer of the Regiment as defective, but t h e
Executive Engineer reported that to carry out the recommendations as suggested would be
practically impossible, as the huts were in such a condition that the walls would not bear
touching without endangering the stability of the whole hut, and the drainage, unless at a very
great expense to " Government, " could not be improved owing to the configuration of the
ground on which the lines stand. The drainage in the lines of all the other Native regiments
with the exception of the 29th Native Infantry, may be said to be defective, and will remain so
until stone or brick-faced drains are introduced ; but their great expense will, I fear, prove an
obstacle to their general introduction.
The public and private latrines in the lines of all the regiments are kept very clean by the
daily removal (morning and evening) of the excreta. 2 public latrines have been built
in the lines of the 3rd Light Infantry since last year. The dry-earth system of conservancy is fairly
carried out in all—both public and private.
Hospitals
Hospitals.—No changes have taken place in any of the hospitals ; arrangements are being
made for improving the roof of the lock hospital which is faulty, and other alterations will
be carried out in the building in order to adopt it more to the requirements of the institution.