Conservancy.
Hospital water-supply.
sickness, mortality, and invalid--
ing.
Chicken-pox
...
...
...
18
Measles ...
...
...
...
3
Malarial fevers ...
...
... 111
Cholera
...
...
. . . . . .
1
Mumps
...
...
. . . . . .
2
Rheumatic cases, &c. ...
...
12
Soft chancre
...
...
...
1
Secondary syphilis
. . . . . .
1
Scurvy
... ...
...
...
6
Nervous affections
...
...
5
Conjunctivitis
...
... ...
2 3
Glaucoma ...
...
...
...
1
Other diseases of the eye
...
...
4
Diseases of the ear and nose
...
2
Heart affections ...
...
...
4
Diseases of the respiratory system..
30
Dysentery
...
... ...
20
Diarrhœa
...
...
...
...
9
Other bowel complaint
...
...
2
Diseases of liver
...
...
...
4
„ spleen ...
...
...
1
Gonorrhœa ...
...
... ...
2
Bubo...
...
... ...
2
2
Guinea-worm
...
...
...
4
Gangrene
...
...
...
...
3
Abscess
...
...
...
...
8
Skin diseases
...
. . . . . .
32
Datura poisoning ...
...
...
1
Wounds and injuries
...
. . .
37
Others
...
...
...
...
23
Total ... 372
Duties.
Exercise, amusement, and occu-
pation.
POONA DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
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9. The duties have been comparatively light, the sepoys
having on an average 4¼ nights in bed, and the men have en-
joyed very fair health.
10. The men attend the gymnasium, the school-room, and
the workshop, and some have been practising for the rifle mat--
ches during their leisure hours.
11. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th detachments marched from Vingorla to Belgaum in January,
February, and March, and the men enjoyed good health, with
the exception of a considerable taint of scurvy, which they
brought from Aden.
12. Since Dr. Rogers submitted his report of this hospital in 1874, a new bath-room
has been added to the eastern side of the northern verandah.
Its capacity is about 144 square feet. The hospital is well ven--
tilated. There is room for 20 sick, and this number has not been exceeded. During the
month of December the maximum number of patients has been, however, over 20 ; but
the increase being due to chicken-pox, those so suffering were treated in tents. The hospital
accommodation for persons suffering from ordinary diseases is very fair ; but there is no
accommodation now for patients suffering from epidemic diseases, except in tents, which do
not afford sufficient protection from the rains, and the difficulty was very much felt during the
last monsoon during the cholera epidemic. It would seem highly desirable to build a tem--
porary shed with a well-raised floor flagged with stone for the treatment of such cases,—a
temporary shed being preferable to a permanent building, as it can always be renewed when
necessary.
Marches.
Hospital.
13. Same as in the lines, and ought to be improved.
14. Is obtained from the wells in the lines.
15. There were 372 admissions, of whom 247 persons were
admitted once during the year, and 125 were re-admissions.
There were 5 remaining cases. Total treated 377. The admis-
sions were as follows :—
The deaths were—from pericarditis 1, remittent fever 1, paralysis 1, cholera 1, total 4.
There have been 6 desertions, and 3 discharged by court-martial.
16. Malarial fevers were the cause of 111 admissions ; with 2 remained of last year,
gives a total of 113 treated, or about 30 per cent. of cases
treated. This large number is due to, as I have already re-
marked, to the peculiar position of Belgaum. The cases, however, were slight, with a few
exceptions, where the disease assumed the form of remittent fever, some of them attended
with typhoid symptoms, such as diarrhœa, sordes over the lips and gums, a dry tongue,
and in two cases complicated with stupor, and when recovering from the fever, with deafness
for several days ; both these cases had to be sent for a change of air ; one has just recently
returned quite vigorous, the other is still away on sick leave. One death occurred from
remittent fever in a young recruit on the seventh day ; the case was complicated with pneumonia.
There was 1 case of splenic enlargement, and 3 of hepatic congestion, and 1 of hepatitis
which might be attributed, to a certain extent, to malarial influences. Eruptive fevers sent
Principal causes of sickness.