Hospital water-supply.
General
conclusions.
Foot soreness
' Vaccination.
Epidemic
Sanitary arrangements
Diet.
Hospital
ventilation. Hospital
drainage.
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Sanitary arrangements properly carried out.
Diet.—Supplies plentiful, cheap, and of good quality. If the men were not encumbered
with large families they would get on very well ; but as it is, many are unable to take
nourishment sufficient to enable them to perform hard duties.
Foot soreness.—As a rule there is very little foot soreness in this regiment.
Vaccination.—Nearly if not all the men in the regiment have either been vaccinated or
have had small-pox.
Epidemic.—A severe epidemic of cholera visited the district and station during the hot
weather and greater part of the rains. The disease was clearly imported, and was often most
fatal in the cleanest places. Three children, a woman and a sepoy (all being in the lines)
contracted the disease. There is no doubt these people contracted the disease out of the lines.
During this period the regiment was enjoying exceptionally good health. Two of the children
died without the slightest attempt at re-action, the others recovered. There is no evidence to
show that the water or air had anything to do with propagating the complaint, but a good
deal to point in the opposite direction.
Hospital ventilation good. No overcrowding.
Hospital drainage is good. The latrines are well constructed and the dry-earth system
is efficiently carried out.
Hospital water-supply.—The water is not particularly good at present.
General conclusions.—I consider the health of the regiment has considerably improved
during the past year, for although the actual number of admissions (597) is in excess of what
they were last year (566), still the daily average is lower, showing the different classes of
diseases to have been milder. Then fewer men have been sent away on sick leave (only 7),
and the death-rate has come down only to 5 in hospital, and 4 out, against 11 in and 4 out
of hospital in the previous twelve months.
As usual by far the largest majority of admissions were caused by malarial fevers. Cholera
was epidemic in the station, but only one sepoy contracted the disease. Four others were
attacked among the families. These cases were undoubtedly imported into the lines, and were
not the result of any inattention to sanitary matters. The disease was very soon stamped
out of the lines, though it continued for months among the civil population, a large portion
living within a short distance of the men's huts. Every precaution was taken to keep the
disease off, and, fortunately, with very fair success.
11th Begiment Hatibe F n f a n t r y
STATION-NAGODE
Arrived from Raepore, 11th December 1872.
Average strength ... ... . . .
. . . . . . ...
. . . ...
. . . 702
Do. do. present ... . . .
. . . . . .
. . . ...
. . . ... 664
Admissions ...
. . . ... ... ... . . . ... ...
. . .
. . . 661
Daily sic
. . . . . .
. . .
. . .
. . . . . .
. . .
. . . ... ... 11
Deaths in hospital . . .
. . .
. . . . . . . . .
. . .
. . . ... ... 2
Do. out of do. . . . ...
. . . ... ... ... ... ... ... 4
Pensioned ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 22
Sick leave
. . . ...
. . . ...
. . . . . .
. . . ... ...
. . . 4
The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding, a
contrasted with previous years :—
Years.
Stations.
Rate per Cent. of
Average Strength Present.
Average Strength.
Admissions. Daily Sick. All Deaths. Pensioned. Sick Leave.
1873 ... ... Nagode
... ... 61.34
2.04
.42
3.57
3.29
1874 ... ... Do.
. . . . . . 60.36
2.10
.58
5.82
.87
1875 . . . ... Do.
. . . . . . 55.19
l.37
.85
2.84
1.13
Average ... 58.96
1.83
.61
4.07
1.76
1876 ... ... Camp Delhi ... ... 99.54
1.65
.85
3.13
.56
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