Food, quality of, and whether
abundant and cheap.
Clothing.
Duties and their effects on
health.
Exercise, amusement, and occu
-pation.
Lock-up rooms and cells.
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A SKETCH OF THE MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BOMBAY.
Resumé of the whole.
Education of medical pupil.
19. On the whole there has been less sickness than last
year, but with new lines for the men the number of admissions
to hospital would decrease.
20. The native medical pupil who has lately joined the
regiment is making satisfactory progress. He is daily instruc
- t e d i n m a t e r i a m e d i c a a n d d i s p e n s i n g .
REMARKS BY DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL D. WYLLIE, M.D.
Health was better than in previous year, and ague less notable than ordinary. Syphilis
also shows a large decrease. Unless in autumn there was no pressure on hospital accom
- m o d a t i o n . L i n e s o l d , d e f e c t i v e , a n d i n p o o r r e p a i r : t o o m u c h o v e r s h a d o w e d b y t r e e s f o r
due perflation. This, it appears by the medical officer's report, has since been remedied.
Trench latrines in use, but objectionably near to hospital, and apt to prove a nuisance when
winds are northerly. Hospital site bad—just within cantonment limits, and only some
24 paces from a native village, in which numbers of cattle are kept. The building is also
defective in the want of adequate and requisite out-offices. Existing arrangements are, how
- e v e r , u n d e r s t o o d t o b e m e r e l y p r o v i s i o n a l ; a n d p r o b a b l y t h e n e c e s s i t y f o r o c c u p y i n g t h e
present accommodation will cease some two years hence.
H. M.'s Squadron 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry.
RA'JKOT.—In medical charge of Surgeon-Major H. R. McDOUGALL, M.D.; strength, 145.
1. The 1st Squadron was stationed at Rájkot from the 1st January to the 15th
November, when it marched for Deesa, having been relieved by
the 3rd Squadron. The 2nd Squadron, which had been relieved
by the 1st Squadron on the 1st January 1876, remained here
until the 17th January, when it marched for Deesa.
Location and movements of
corps.
Detachments.
2. No detachments have been furnished during the year.
3. No change has been made in the lines since last report. There has been no over-
crowding ; the huts were thoroughly cleaned and purified on
the occurrence of some cases of cholera in April, when the
corps was marched out into camp.
4. The conservancy is still carried out as in former years. The latrines (pucka built)
are considered to be too far from the lines, and there is a difficul
-ty about keeping them as clean as desirable, owing to the one
filth cart of the station being unable to perform all the work
allotted to it. The conservancy of the lines themselves appears to be well attended to.
5. Water for drinking is obtained solely from wells, which contain a pure supply of good
water at present, but it is beginning to fail, and, owing to a
deficient rainfall, is likely to prove a source of anxiety before
next monsoon: water for ablution can be procured from the river about ½ a mile distant, and,
it necessary, the horses can also be watered there. The wells are protected from all source of
contamination except such as are common to all uncovered wells.
Lines.
Conservancy, sanitary arrange-
ment, latrines.
Water-supply.
6. Food is abundant but dear: prices have risen of late
owing to a large exportation to famine districts. Vegetables
are very scarce and dear, apparently at all times.
7. No change has been made in the clothing during the
past year.
8. The duties of the men are light, and have not appa-
rently had any ill effect on their health.
9. The men have no particular occupation or amusement
for their leisure hours.
10. There is one lock-up room attached to the quarter
-guard; its superficial area being 64 square feet and cubic
capacity 720 feet.