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9. An extraordinary heavy rainfall, the largest on record here, has, there is little doubt,
Influence of climate or local
circumstances on health.
been the great cause of the increased sickness in the corps.
The civil population of the province also suffered most severely
f r o m a s i m i l a r c a u s e .
10. The admissions from all causes during the entire year under review amounted
to 287, and if to this number be added 3 cases which remained
on the 1st January 1878, the total treated will be 290, which
compares most unfavourably with the previous year, in which the number treated was only 75.
For the first eight months of the year the standard of health was very good, the register for
that period showing only 69 admissions from all causes.
11. Two deaths took place in hospital—one from cholera, the other from acute bron
-chitis.
Une death took place out of hospital from general
debility, due to secondary syphilis and syphilitic cachexia; the
man was proceeding to Ahmedabad to appear before the General Invaliding Committee, and
died on the way.
Details of treated.
Mortality.
Epidemics.
12. Three cases of cholera occurred, one in May and two
in July.
13. Nine primary vaccinations, all successful, took place. There were 41 re-vaccina-
Vaccination and re -vaccination.
tions, of which only 11 were successful. The lymph was on all
occasions carefully examined and found good.
14. Five men were invalided on “ Pension,” the causes being, 2 old age and general
debility, 1 night blindness, 1 scrotal hernia, 1 loss of power
in the left arm from an old fracture. Two ere g
dischared on
a small gratuity on account of permanent unfitness, from weakness and gonorrhæal
rheumatism.
Invaliding and its causes.
Requirements and recommend-
ations.
15. The quarters of the Hospital Assistant require to be
thoroughly repaired.
16. I have persistently administered, for the past two months, in most cases of
Special observations, new ex-
periences in treatment, &c.
intermittent fever, the cinchona mixed alkaloid, and it has not
proved, in my hands, the valuable antiperiodic it has been
reported to be. In all cases it produced intense nausea, and in
not a few gastro enteric irritation with diarrhœa in some, and dysentery in others. I have
given it regularly for over twenty days, in five grain closes three times daily, to patients
without any apparent benefit, when I substituted. quinine for it, with the most marked
favourable results. I am happy to state that 1st Class Hospital Assistant Shaik Luteef
has performed his duties to my entire satisfaction; he is an able and most deserving
servant.
Inspection by Deputy Surgeon General WYLLIE.
Inspected February 22nd, 1879. Hospital, shared by the sick of Cavalry and Infantry
wing, is suitable and ordinarily ample, but in the exceptional prevalence of ague from Octo-
ber to December, tents were necessary to supplement the accommodation. Lines on stand-
ard plan, clean and roomy, with appropriate arrangements for ventilation and the disposal of
sullage. Masonry latrines common to Artillery and Cavalry are in permanent use owing to
rocky ground, Nothing has yet been done towards removing the hospital privy from its very
objectionable proximity to the well, as formerly detailed, beyond selecting a site for a new
latrine.
H. M.’s 1st Regiment N. I. (Grenadiers).
AHMEDABAD.—In Medical charge of Surgeon Major C. F. OGILVIE, M.D.
Average Strength
676
Deaths in Hospital
15
Do.
Present
668
Do. out of do.
4
Admissions
1,158
Invalided
38
Daily Sick
25.1
Sick Leave
13