Epidemics.
Vaccination.
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Water-supply.
4. Water-supply is good and sufficient, and is derived from
the river close by, there being no wells in the vicinity of the lines.
Food at -present is good, abundant and cheap, but during the rains it was not so
Food and clothing.
cheap. The present prices are:—wheat 12 lbs. per rupee,
iowari 35 lbs., bairi 33 lbs., rice 16 lbs., clothing as usual.
6. the ordinary duties consist of drill five days in the week, Treasury and Quarter
Duties, &c.
Guard, line pickets, &c. Amusements, none. No bad effects are
discernible from the duties.
7. There is no regular military hospital nor a special ward for the military patients.
The rent of the hospital building is paid by the Military
Department, and the repairs are conducted by the Civil Depart-
ment, and in it are treated the military and police cases and the civil paupers. My pre--
decessors have year after year reported about unsuitability of the hospital building, but I am
sorry to say nothing has been done. The hospital contains only one ward, Which could
accommodate ten patients, and is generally overcrowded. It is situated between the town and
the sudder bazaar, and is very convenient to the civil and police-patients, but it is very far
from the Native Infantry Lines. Ventilation is carried on by means of doors, windows and
ridge of roof. Hospital itself is clean and in very good repair, but the latrine in con-
nection with it has fallen down, and a new one will soon be built by the Public Works
Department.
Hospital, &c.
General health, &c.
Influence of climate, &c,
8. General health good, and the physique of the men also
very good. Most of them are capable of undergoing the hard-
ships of warfare.
9. No bad effects can be traced to the influence of cli-
mate on the health of the men.
10. 114 is the total number treated as compared with 129 during the year 1877.
Details of treated.
Ague, chronic rheumatism, syphilis, gonorrhœa, dysentery and
diarrhœa were the principal diseases treated. Ague was treat-
ed by quinine, cinchonidine, arsenic, and strychnine. Either of the latter two drugs was
sometimes added to the quinine or cinchonidine mixture. In dysentery, acute, large doses
of ipecacuanha do not succeed very well with natives. I find better results follow by
Dover’s powder and chlorodyne after castor oil with opium.
11. There were three deaths during the year:—one from cholera, one from scurvy, and
Mortality, &c.
one marked under the heading of chronic rheumatism, but died
of acute dysentery. The scurvy case was very obstinate. The
man would not eat vegetables, and often threw away medicines.
12. There was no epidemic during the year in the station, though a few sporadic cases
of cholera occurred in January and March.
13. No vaccinations were performed, as all men were
vaccinated before.
14. Three men were invalided—one for cataract, one for heart disease, and one for old
age and general debility. Seven men went on sick leave—four
from ague, two from chronic rheumatism, and one from lung
disease.
Invalidings, &c.
Requirements and recommend-
ations.
15. None.
16. No special treatment.
H. M.'s 15th Regiment N.
AHMEDNAGAR.— Medical charge of Surgeon Major E. P. BURRows.
Average Strength
703
Deaths in Hospital
15
Do.
Present
686
Do. out of do. 1
Admissions
,. ,
853
Invalided
41
Daily Sick
23.9
Sick Leave
21