Drill.
Vaccination.
Hospital
ventilation.
Hospital
drainage.
Hospital
water-supply.
Genera
l
conclusions.
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during the year. Men with slender means have large families or dependents living with them,
and I am certain that the want of good nourishing food is one source of disease.
clothing.—Regulation clothing is worn all the year round when the men are on duty, and
is suited to the climate; but the undress of the sepoy, which is usually of cotton and scanty, is
insufficient protection against cold. The head dress is open to the objection pointed out during
the last decade, namely, that it does not protect the eyes nor the back of the head, and allows of
water trickling down the back of the wearer in rainy weather.
Foot soreness.— Fifty-eight men have been excused wearing boots for periods varying from
one to several weeks.
Clothing.
Foot soreness.
Duty.—It is not easy to say whether the amount of duty now performed by the troops is
injurious to health, or at any rate to discriminate how many admissions into hospital are due to
duty and how many to other causes ; but this may be attested, that if there were one or two
brigades at Agram weekly (as had been the case in former years) more men than at present
would report sick. The number of consecutive nights in bed per week has been 2.96, which I
consider sufficient.
Drill. —Twice a day from 6 to 7 in the morning, and from half past 1 to half past 5 in the
evening; they tend to keep the men in exercise.
Vaccination.—Ninety-seven cases were operated on, of which 65 were successful and 32
unsuccessful. Small-pox prevailed to a slight extent among the families.
Duty.
Intermittent ...
... 506
Remittent
... ...
1
Continued
...
...
5
Total ... 512
E p i d e m i c . — S i x t y - f i v e p e r c e n t . o f t h e a d m i s s i o n s i n t o h o s p i t a l h a v e b e e n f r o m f e v e r s , a n d
many of these appear to have had. previous attacks. The number
admitted during the year is made up as shown in the margin. Previous
attacks, exposure on night duty, the unhygienic conditions (noted in
other paragraphs of this report), and the well known malarious
character of the Mysore plateau all exert one influence.
Epidemic.
Hospital ventilation, satisfactory. The building has doors, windows, four dormer and three
roof ventilators. The wards were not allowed to be overcrowded as tents were applied for and
pitched for patients when the number of sick exceeded 18.
Hospital drainage good. Water from the bath-room escapes by a pipe to the outside
of the building, but a part of the main and special wards adjoining the lavatory is always damp.
The dry-earth system is efficiently carried out.
Hospital water-supply.
—Water is supplied by a puckally who is told off every week for
hospital work, and the sources of supply are the same as the men have in their huts.
General conclusions. —Cholera and small-pox prevailed among the families of the regiment.
During this, the last year of its stay in Bangalore, the percentage of sickness to strength
has been higher than in any previous year ; being 120·32 against 72·8 in 1873, 64·2 in 1874, 78·5
in 1875, and 76·5 in 1876.
The average daily sick has been 18·6, and the only year in which a higher average was
attained was 1875, when it rose to 19·9.
The percentage of deaths in hospital to strength has been 0 . 92 against 0 . 30 in 1876,
0 . 64 in 1874, and 1 . 5 in 1.873.
The percentage of men invalided and pensioned to strength was 81·7 in 1877 against
3 . 6 in 1876, 4 . 8 in 1.875, 5 . 6 in 1874, and 3 . 4 in 1873.
36th Regiment Native Infantry.
STATION—BANGALORE.
Arrived from Thayetmyo, 26th February 1872.
Average strength
... ... ... ... ... ...
... 690
Do.
do. present
... ... ... ... ... ...
690
Admissions
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
420
Daily sick
... ...
...
... ... ...
...
...
12
Deaths in hospital
...
...
... ...
...
...
...
7
Do. out of do.
... ...
...
... ... ... ...
4
Pensioned
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
...
1
Sick leave
...
...
...
... ... ... ...
...
12
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