Location and movements of corps.
Conservancy and sanitary ar
-rangements.
Water-supply.
Vaccination and re-vaccination.
General health and physique of
the men.
Resumé of the whole.
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NORTHERN DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
as overcrowding occurred during the year. I hope, also, that a building, a little distance off,
for infectious cases and a female ward may be sanctioned. Invaliding was heavy, 30 out
of 33 taken before the invaliding committee having been pronounced unfit.
When small-pox was raging at Bombay I re-vaccinated the whole regiment and wing.
I am happy to state that, although the disease reached this place, only 3 cases occurred in the
lines, and they recovered.
I wish to express my entire approval of the very satisfactory manner in which 3rd class
hospital assistant Shaik Ameen has performed his duties during the year. During cholera,
and when much sickness was prevalent, he was untiring in his exertions.
REMARKS BY DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL D. WYLLIE, M.D.
Health, as tested by treated, was only indifferent, admissions showing considerably in
excess of average. But there was little serious sickness, except the occurrence of cholera in
June. Bronchitis, however, and rheumatism figure unduly in the returns. Mortality moder
-ate. Surroundings fairly good, unless that the sanitary condition of the huts, particularly the
lines in which cholera happened, proved unsatisfactory. They have adequate cubage, are com
-paratively modern, and had previously been healthy. But they are altogether exceptional in
possessing ridge-ventilation, and the frequency of the latter-named ailments would suggest
that this may possibly, under certain conditions, be in excess of requirements. Sick accom
-modation throughout restricted, and occasionally straitened, as referred to in the report; but
the new hospital, Royal Artillery, will now soon be ready, and that of the corps made again
available. Re-vaccination was exhaustively carried out among the men, and vaccination in
the families.
H. M.'s 1st Squadron, 1st Lancers.
BARODA.—In medical charge of Surgeon-Major H. A. LEWIS, M.D.; strength 144.8.
1. The squadron has been stationed in Baroda during the
past year.
2. The latrines belonging to the 22nd Regimental hospital
are used. The sanitary arrangements in the lines are properly
conducted.
3. The water-supply is obtained from the Native Infantry
wells.
4. There were 205 admissions from all causes; 95 of the number were from fevers ,
chiefly ague; 26 from contusions, 17 from chronic rheumatism,
and 21 from conjunctivitis. There were no deaths. Six men
were invalided.
Sickness, mortality, and invalid
-ing.
5. Fifteen children were vaccinated in the lines and
13 were re-vaccinated.
6. The health of the men is fair, and their physique
good.
7. The year, on the whole, has been favourable to the men
in the squadron, there having been less sickness as compared
with last year.
REMARKS BY DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL D. WYLLIE, M.D.
The men continue to occupy a part of the Native Infantry lines. The accommodation is
old and very indifferent, cubage of each hut but 650 feet, and drainage defective, the ground
being nearly a dead flat. Sick are accommodated in the hospital 22nd Regiment N. I., a
building objectionable in site and surroundings, and deficient in out-offices. But present
arrangements are not likely to prove protracted. There was sufficient room, unless in autumn,
when the verandahs were occasionally occupied. Service and equipment satisfactory.
Health, as tested by treated, although better than in previous year, still compares unfavour
-ably with that of the infantry; but admissions from injuries go far to account for the
difference. Here, as in the 22nd, ophthalmia, chiefly of malarious origin, was relatively very
prominent in the rains. Vaccination was efficiently conducted.