Ventilation.
The bazaar.
Drainage
Tanks.
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23. The medical pupils had instruction imparted to them, whenever they were free
from ball practice and other duties, in arithmetic, elementary
anatomy, materia medica, and in the English language. As
cases occurred in hospital which were considered fit for clinical demonstration, they were
taught medicine and surgery at the bed-side.
REMARKS BY DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL D. WYLLIE, M.D.
There is little room for comparison between the past and previous year, for the aggregates
of admissions to treated closely correspond; average health was fairly maintained, and the
only notable features are relative excess in bowel complaints and increase in ague, the latter
explained by decrease under continued fever. Lines much in the same unsatisfactory state
as before, and there is the same common complaint of dampness in the rains from want of
plinths, and resulting predisposition to disease. Remedy is perhaps more called for here
than at Deesa or Baroda, in so far as at no other station are streets so constructed and con
- fined, and perflation concurrently so imperfect. In any reconstruction permanent latrines
should be located within reasonable distance; at present they are so inconveniently far as to
be practically unavailable for families after dark,—a common defect at stations of the Mhow
Division. Hospital, inspected December 8th, has ample and good accommodation; wall
ventilation, however, complained of in cold weather, requires to be controlled. Subsidiary
buildings sufficient, and mortuary completed since last visit; equipment, conservancy, and
service satisfactory and efficient. The mortality was the lowest of any, and I was pleased
with all I saw. Surgeon Parakh's report is painstaking and creditable.
(In this report no mention of the numbers of the treated, died, &c., of the detachment,
stationed at Mehidpore from 16th of October last, is made.)
Wings of H. M.'s 25th and 23rd Regiment N. L. I.
INDORE.—In medical charge of Surgeon E. BURROUGHS ;—strength, 224.6
1. The left wing of the 23rd N. L. I. is at present stationed here, having arrived on
July 15th 1876 to relieve the wing of the 25th N. L. I., which
had been stationed here for twelve months.
Education of medical pupils, &c.
Location and movement of
troops.
Detachments.
2. There are no detachments detailed from the wing.
3. There is plenty of room for new lines, which are greatly needed. The blocks of
pendals are five in number; they are far too close together, and
the height of the plinth is not sufficient: I may say they are
in a most unsatisfactory state.
The native officers' dwellings are very good; but as they are situated to the west and
close to the sepoys' huts, they prevent the current of air to a great extent from passing
down the lines. There are five native officers' houses.
Lines.
The ventilation in the lines is not good.
Is situated about half a mile from the lines, and is clean.
Is tolerably good during the wet season.
There are none in the immediate proximity of the lines.
4. The latrines for men are situated about two hundred yards to the north-east of the
huts: the pans are eighteen in number. Those for the wo
-men are to the south of the men's latrines: there are ten
pans. Lately carbolic acid and MacDougall's powder have
been issued to the sweepers every other morning. The sewage is buried to the north of
the latrines in pits.
Conservancy and sanitary ar
-rangements.
5. Is furnished by two wells, one close to the hospital and another to the south of the
lines, in close proximity to a large ditch which receives a por
-tion of the drainage from the lines, and which during the
Water-supply.