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regimental bazaar; and on the east is an open plain. The soil is stony, mixed with a little
moorum. It is an oblong building running north and south, on a plinth of about 2 feet; it is
very substantially built, with walls of great thickness, and arched masonry roofs; it has
four doors in front, two of which are glazed; two glazed doors in rear, and two at each
end. It contains two parallel wards, which communicate by four arches in the central wall;
each ward is 98 feet long, 18 feet wide, 16 feet 9 inches high, with an arched masonry roof,
and contains 8,676 square feet of floor, and 26,257 cubic feet, and is registered to accommodate
14 patients.
In front and rear is a closed in verandah of the same length as the wards (and commu-
nicating with them by four arches), 8 feet wide, 12 feet 8 inches high, with arched masonry
roofs, containing 784 square feet of floor and 8,863 cubic feet. At each end of each ward is
a partition wall 9 feet high with an arch in it, but without door, which communicates with the
ward; thus four small wards for special cases are formed, 8 feet X 18 feet X 16 feet 9 inches;
at each end of each verandah a few feet are partitioned off to form office, dispensary, godown,
and orderly room: ventilation is provided by three ventilators in the roof of each ward 3 feet
long X 2 feet wide, and by 10 loop holes (16 inches X 6) in front walls, 10 in the rear, and
4 each end, pierced at a height of 7 feet from floor of hospital.
The medical subordinates' quarters are well built and comfortable, as also are the
second class servants' quarters. There are two latrines on the standard plan, one for males
containing six seats, and one for females containing three seats. They are carefully attended
to by the hospital sweepers; the pans are emptied into an iron receptacle, which is emptied
into an iron tank cart, which attends every evening, and conveys the ordure to a distance,
where it is buried.
At 150 yards to the left rear of the hospital is a pucka built contagious hospital; it is an
oblong building 53 feet long, 17 feet wide, running parallel to the hospital, with an open
verandah 9 feet wide all round; it is divided by a transverse wall into two equal sized wards
24 feet long, 14 feet wide, and 20 feet high, each ward containing 336 square feet of floor
and 5,712 cubic feet. Each ward has two wooden doors in front and 2 in rear, and 1 glazed
window in the end, with a double tiled roof and ridge ventilation; but it requires a small
latrine, as there is not one at present. The present condition, hygienic and otherwise, of all
these buildings is good.
8. These were fair.
9. The climate had no special effect, and there are no
unusual local circumstances.
10. The total number of cases admitted during the year for the entire regiment was
747, showing an increase of 44 over last year. The cause of
increase is owing to the large amount of malarious fever, which
in 1878 gave only 258, while in 1879 it gave 424 cases, or an increase of 166 cases. One
severe case of malarious remittent fever occurred, which was treated with tincture of aconite,
Warburg's tincture, quinine, ice to the head, &c., and recovered satisfactorily. The ague was
of a mild form and yielded to cinchona alkaloid, only a few cases requiring quinine. And
there were no lung complications, as I have seen frequently in other places. The diseases
treated were the following: malarious fever, 424; rheumatism, chronic, 34, no heart affection;
contusion lower extremities, 36; boils, 31; blister of feet, 21; bronchitis, chronic, 18; primary
syphilis, 22; contusion upper extremities, 13; conjunctivitis, 9; colic, 9; guinea worm, 7;
itch, 8; bronchial catarrh, 7; diarrhœa, 8; lumbago, 7; sprain (hip, knee and ankle joints),
8; abscess cellular tissue, 7; dysentery, 5; neuralgia, 4; sore throat, 5; gonorrhœa, 4;
orchitis, 3; gum boil, 3; diabetes mellitus, 2; epididymitis, 2; anæsthesia outside of right
leg, 2; dyspepsia, 3; urticaria, 2; ulcer, 2.
11. The total number of deaths is 5; of these 3 died in hospital at head-quarters, 1 in
detachment hospital at Indore, and 1 on sick leave at home.
The causes of death were ague 1, pneumonia (lobular), com-
plicated with abscess of the liver which discharged itself into base of right lung, 1, diabetes
mellitus 1 at Mhow; bronchitis, chronic, 1, at Indore; and abscess of liver, 1, on sick leave in
the Punjab.
12. None. One mild case of measles occurred in an adult. The disease was contracted
from the 6th N. I., who imported the disease from Indore,
where a wing of the regiment had been stationed before it came
to Mhow.
13. Twenty-eight primary vaccinations (all successful) and 50 re-vaccinations, of which
40 were successful and 10 unsuccessful. All recruits are vacci-
nated on joining. Only 10 children remain unprotected, and
these are too young for the operation.
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General health and physique.
Influence of climate or local
circumstances on health.
Details of treated.
Mortality and its causes.
Epidemics.
Vaccination and re-vaccination.