Exercises.
Vaccination.
Epidemic
Hospital
ventilation.
Hospital
drainage and
latrines.
Hospital water-supply is good and abundant.
Hospital
water-supply.
Sanitary
condition of
all buildings.
Water-
supply.
Conservancy.
Hospital.
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Exercises.—There is a gymkhana in the lines which the young men and recruits avail
themselves of with benefit.
Vaccination has been diligently carried out in the corps during the cold season ; also the
revaccination of the men in the regiment with no marks or indifferent ones has been com-
menced.
Epidemic.—In the months of June and July a few cases of cholera occurred in the
regimental lines ; in all 6 cases, with 1 death, that of a child.
Hospital ventilation. —Ventilation in the hospital, which is built on the Bengal standard
plan, has been perfect.
Hospital drainage and latrines. —The condition of the hospital latrines has been looked
after and the dry-earth conservancy efficiently carried out. There is no regular system of
drainage.
General conclusions. —The health of the regiment during the year under review has been
good. There were 320 admissions into hospital as compared with 437 of the previous year—
a very large decrease. The men though small have mostly a good physique, and are
muscular. The health of the officers has on the whole been good.
Deputy Surgeon-General J. R. Theobalds inspected this corps on the 16th
January 1878 and reports as follows :–
General
conclusions.
Sanitary condition of lines. —I found the lines very clean, huts in fair order, ventilation of
each hut indifferent through tile spaces, where poles of roof rest on the mud walls, and a small
entrance door. The huts in these lines are detached and the floors are well raised above the
level of the streets. Drainage generally good from the natural configuration of the ground
on which the huts stand. During the past year greater attention has been given to improve the
drainage in the streets that are low.
Sanitary
condition of
lines.
Sanitary condition of all buildings. —I found the guard rooms, prison cells very clean, in
good repair, well ventilated, and well drained ; no cess-pool.
Water-supply. —Supply of drinking water from wells and tanks in some of the wells ; the
water is brackish ; the best drinking water is obtained from a well in the south-east boundary
of the lines ; the wells begin to run dry in April, quite dry in May. Except in the early
morning and from May to the beginning of the rains, most of the drinking water is obtained
from tanks. I would recommend that another well be sunk in the lines, and that when
the line wells are cleaned out at the close of the hot season, the drinking-water wells be
deepened.
Conservancy of the lines and neighborhood has been improved during the past year, and
is now in fair working order.
Hospital. —I found all the buildings, wards, latrines, store-rooms, and out-houses in good
repair, very clean, surroundings tidy, and all in good order. The wards and latrines are well
ventilated and well drained a good supply of drinking water from a well in the lines generally
sufficient ; during the hot season sometimes obliged to use tank water.
The hospital latrine is partially worked on the dry-earth system. The excreta is buried
in pits.
BRITISH BURMAH DIVISION.
Average strength
...
...
...
...
. . .
...
... 3,370
Do. do. present
...
...
...
. . .
. . .
. . . 3, 205
Total admissions
...
...
...
...
. . .
. . .
. . . 3,660
Daily sick
...
...
...
...
...
. . . ...
... 115
Deaths in hospital
...
...
...
...
. . .
...
. . .
21
Do. out of do.
... ...
...
. . .
. . .
. . .
...
30
Pensioned
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
...
17
Sick leave
..
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . ... 162
The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding as
contrasted with previous years :—
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