Sanitary
condition of
lines.
Sanitary
condition of
all buildings.
Conservancy.
Hospital.
CENTRE OR PRESIDENCY DISTRICT.
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Deputy Surgeon-General W. J. vanSomeren, M.D., inspected this corps on the
15th February 1878 and reports as follows:—
Sanitary condition of lines.—The lines are clean, their drainage not improved.
Sanitary condition of all buildings. —The style of latrines is unchanged, and objectionable
as formerly;—the pen system in vogue in them and in the municipal latrines also! the schools
are now held in a dwelling house to the left of the main road, and a great improvement in their
former location. Two of the cells in the fort are very clean, and the walls of the third are
stained in two places with the blood of bugs, and in a third with spittle. The guard room is
clean, but its floor and that of the verandah adjoining are dilapidated. The taleenkhana the
same, dark, ill-ventilated hut it was. The guard-room latrine beautifully clean and inoffensive!
Water-supply.—Drinking water from 15 wells in the lines, ample, clear, and inodorous.
Water-supply.
Conservancy is good still, for the thoroughfares are clean. I cannot approve, however, of
the pen-latrines, the absence of earth-conservancy in them, and the ignorement of tar.
Hospital.—This is simply beautiful in its cleanliness, order, and method. Each patient
has enjoyed 192.93 superficial, and 1696.61 cubic feet of space. Each ward is lighted at
night, as required, by a pendent lamp, trimmed with oil,—one such lamp hangs in the surgery,
and one in the latrine. The arrangements, accommodation, and water-supply are unaltered. On
the maidan north-east of the lines I saw one thatched shed and three tents for cholera and
small-pox cases. The tents are all torn and useless.
33rd Regiment Native Infantry.
STATION—MADRAS (VEPERY).
Arrived from Dorundah on the 22nd January and 12th February 1877.
Average strength
654
Do.
do.
present
591
Admissions
248
Daily sick
8
Deaths in hospital
9
Do. out of do
...
...
. . .
Pensioned
...
...
..
..
. . .
Sick leave
6
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.
1874
Dorundah
49.45
1.64
. 9
. . .
. 4 2
1875
Do
37.23
1 . 4 8
. 9 3
...
.46
1876
Do
3 9 . 1 8
1.56
. 7 4
. 2 9 .89
Average
41.95
1.56
. 8 7
. 0 9 .59
1877
Madras
4 1 . 9 6
1.35
1.37
...
.91
Surgeon D. J. McCarthy, M.D., was in medical charge of this corps during
the year and reports as follows : —
Climate of the station.— Owing to the failure of the rain and the famine prices of all
descriptions of food, the health of the population has suffered considerably. Cholera, small-pox,
and measles have been epidemic in Madras, and diarrhœa and dysentery have been very
p r e v a l e n t .
If regiment has been on the march. —The Right Wing and Head Quarters of the regiment
marched from Dorundah on 6th December 1876, and arrived in Calcutta on 4th January 1877,
embarking on 3rd February, and arrived in Madras on 10th February; the Left Wing left
Dorundah on 19th December 1876, and arrived in Calcutta on 14th January 1877, embarked
Climate of
the station.
If regiment
has been on
:he march.
6