Climate of the
station.
Construction
of huts if
conducive to
health.
Ventilation
and drainage
of the men's
huts, &c.
Water-supply.
Sanitary
arrangements.
Diet.
Vaccination has been attended to.
Vaccination.
Hospital
ventilation.
Hospital
drainage.
Hospital
water-supply.
HYDERABAD SUBSIDIARY FORCE.
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and buried at a distance. Private latrines in compounds of huts kept clean. Ashes and dry
earth are used in all.
Hospital is clean and in good repair. Accommodation ample ; ventilation good ; drainage Hospital.
natural and sufficient.
1st Regiment Native Infantry.
STATION—SECUNDERABAD.
Arrived from Thayetmyo on the 4th March 1875.
Average strength
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
...
694
Do.
do. present ...
... ... ... ... ...
...
...
649
Admissions ...
...
... ... ... ... ...
489
Daily sick ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
20
Deaths in hospital ...
...
...
... ... ...
...
2
Do. out of do. ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
Pensioned
...
...
...
...
...
...
22
Sick leave ...
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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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.
1873 ...
... Thayetmyo ...
...
42.72
1.87
1.19
...
.44
1874
...
...
Do.
...
...
55.36
1 . 8 9
2.07
.74
3.11
1875 ...
... Secunderabad
...
...
80.91
2.48
1.47
3.40
3.55
Average ...
59.66
2.08
1.57
1.38
2.36
1876 ...
.... Secunderabad
. . .
75.37
3.08
.86
3.17
1.29
Surgeon-Major W. J. Busteed was in medical charge of this corps during the
year and reports as follows :—
Climate of the station.—The chief point to be noted under this head is the very scanty
rainfall. viz.. 15.47 against an average of 26.
Construction of huts conducive to health. —According to European ideas the huts are
small, low, dark, ill-ventilated, and by no means conducive to health.
Ventilation and drainage of the men's huts, &c, —With the exception of the impossibility of
ventilating the inside of the sepoy's hut and the equal impossibility of securing efficient drainage
with merely earthen drains instead of stone ones—with these two very important exceptions—one
might say that ventilation and drainage were satisfactory.
•
Water-supply. —During the present year the supply even of doubtful water is scanty and
people have to take what they can get. The wells have been cleaned out and deepened, but
there is still a very great scarcity of water, which is likely to continue and grow worse owing to
the rainfall this year.
Sanitary arrangements carefully attended to.
Diet. —The price of food of all kinds has risen immensely during the year.
Foot soreness.—ln this respect this regiment does not differ from any other Madras native
regiment that I have ever been with. Given hard, ill-fitting boots and no socks, foot soreness
must be frequent, especially in men who, prior to enlistment, always went bare-footed. The
remedy apparently is to provide a better foot-covering or let the men go bare-foot.
Foot soreness.
Epidemic.—There were no admissions among the sepoys of this regiment for any epidemic. Epidemic.
Hospital ventilation excellent. No overcrowding.
Hospital drainage good. Dry earth used.
Hospital water-supply derived from the well in the lines.
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