some mortality, one death each in the 1st Light Cavalry and 26th N. I., and
three in the nth N. I. Diarrhoea occasioned three deaths in the 26th N. I. and
three in the 24th N. I. at Mehidpoor. It caused two deaths each in the 4th
N. I. at Satara, and in the 7th and 28th at Rajkote. The total number of
deaths in the Bombay Army from these two diseases was 42, as compared with
20 in the year 1877.
13. The admissions under the head of injuries. &c. were 6 . 9 per cent. of
I n j u r i e s , & c .
the total, as compared with 10.3 in 1877. The deaths
reported were 13, but 8 of them occurred in the 15th
N. I. at Ahmednuggur. The medical officer of this Regiment reports that a
fire broke out at a local theatre in the month of May, at which sixteen rank and file
and six followers were badly injured and burned. Some eight of the men and
five followers died from the effects of their injuries.
14. There was a total number of 626 admissions from syphilis in the entire
Syphilis
Native Army for the year. In the Presidency Division
1.5 per cent. of the admissions were due to it, in the
Poona Division 2.4, in the Northern Division 0.7, and in Sind 2.2. The stations
where this disease was most contracted were Bombay, in the Presidency Divi-
sion ; Kolapur, Dharwar, Malegaon, and Ahmednuggur, in the Poona Division ;
Mehidpur, in the Northern Division ; and Kurrachee and Hyderabad, in Sind.
15. There were 173 admissions, all told, from guinea worm, and 96 of these
Guinea worm.
occurred in stations in the Dekhan and Southern
Mahratta Country. Of the former stations, Poona,
Sattara, Ahmednuggur, and Mallegauin furnished cases, and in the Southern
Mahratta Country, Belgaum, Dharwar, and Kholapur, also furnished sonic cases.
The two latter stations furnished the largest number, and they have been noted
in this respect for years past. I think a better conservancy of the bathing as
well as the drinking water at all these stations would tend to lessen, if not
entirely remove, the loss of sepoy service the State suffers yearly from this cause.
16. In the Northern Division there were 62 admissions from cholera with
Cholera.
35 deaths, being 56.4 per cent.; in the Poona Division
there were 19 eases and 13 deaths. a percentage of
68 4; the Presidency Division returned 5 cases with 1 death, a percentage of 20;
while not a single case was reported from the army in Sind. In 1877 the number
of cholera cases reported was 67 with 39 deaths, or 58.2 per cent., and the cases
were distributed with nearly equal proportionate frequency in the Presidency,
Poona, and Northern Divisions, while the army in Sind enjoyed a complete
immunity from the disease, as is the case in the year under review. The Regi-
ments which suffered most from cholera were the 1st Regiment N. 1. at Ahmedabad,
and the 6th N. I. at lndore. As regards the 1st I., no particulars are
given beyond the fact stated by Deputy Surgeon General Wyllie, that cholera
lingered in the station from May to July. The cases in the 6th N. I. all occur-
red in the Right Half Battalion at Indore. Though cholera prevailed in the
native city, no case occurred in cantonments till the arrival of this Regi-
ment. Its origin is attributed to the use of offensive water in a nullah near
which the sepoys halted on the march in, and the facts given in support of
this theory are—1st, that only those men who partook of that water suffered
from the disease; 2nd, that the families of the sepoys of this Wing, and the men
of the 23rd N. I., who did not halt near the nullah, were altogether free from the
disease. The first case occurred on the 14th May, the day following that of the
arrival of the Wing at Indore, and the last on the 18th May. In the Left Wing
of'the 24th N. I. at Augur, a few cases occurred regarding which sonic interest-
ing details are given by the Medical Officer in charge, Surgeon J. C. Lucas. The
Head Quarter Wing of this Regiment at Mehidpur was also affected by cholera,
and the origin and progress of the disease are very minutely detailed by Surgeon
J. E. Ferguson, who held medical charge. There were a few cases in the Medi-
urn