Mortality and its causes.
Vaccination and re-vaccination.
PRESIDENCY DIVISION, ADEN, AND BOMBAY MARINE.
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Four cases of cholera occurred in Bombay; of these three died, the
other was transferred to the Goculdass Tejpall Hospital, where he also died. Thirty-two men
were granted sick leave to their own country for periods varying from two to six months.
nished their usual quota.
10. Five deaths occurred in hospital : of these three were
due to cholera, one to locomotor ataxy, and one to asphyxia
(suicidal).
11. These were duly attended to ; the records show 41
successful primary operations, and 21 successful re-vaccinations.
1 2 . F o r t y - f o u r m e n w e r e i n v a l i d e d , t h e i r d i s a b i l i t i e s b e i n g a s f o l l o w s : — E r u p t i v e
fevers 1, malarious affections 1, rheumatic affections 3, syphilis 3,
scurvy 1, diseases of nervous system 1, eye disease 1, heart
disease 1, lung diseases 3, dysentery 1, skin disease 1, other local diseases 4, old age and
debility 22. injury 1.
1 3 . N e w a n d p r o p e r q u a r t e r s f o r t h e m e d i c a l s u b o r d i n a t e s a r e u r g e n t l y r e q u i r e d . I
would also strongly recommend that the regiment be permitted
to occupy the lines formerly tenanted by the 22nd Regiment
N. I. (now vacant) before the advent of the hot season, as from
the absence of shade in their present lines, the want of privacy, cramped space, &c., I fore-
see much discomfort for the men if this be not granted.
Inspection by Deputy Surgeon-General WYLLIE.
Inspected 7th January. I was satisfied with the care and attention bestowed on the
sick, but found some shortcomings in subsidiary details, explained by ill-health of the medi-
cal officer and the fact that the 1st class hospital assistant had only recently joined.
This corps, previously stationed at Bombay, arrived on the lst ultimo, and is occupying
the temporary lines constructed for the 9th Regiment some three years ago. They are less
commodious, and inferior as a protection to the permanent huts vacant since the departure
of the 22nd.
The hospital is an old schoolroom extemporised for the 9th in 1875. It has various
drawbacks, and is particularly objectionable as being close to cantonment limits, and only
twenty-four paces distant from a native village where many cattle are kept, with large col-
lections of manure offensively near to the sick. The original Native Hospital was made over
to the Senior Medical Officer, British Troops, just before the arrival of the 20th, on the ground
of it being desirable to treat native followers in a separate building from Europeans.
H. M.'s 21st Regiment N. I.
BOMBAY.—In medical charge of Surgeon-Major W. DAVEY.
Average Strength. ..................... 654.3
Deaths in Hospital. ..................... 7 8
Do.
Present ............ 632.6
Do out of do. . ..................... 6 5
Admissions. .......................... 524
Invalided . .............................. 15
Daily Sick. .............................. 15.9
Sick Leave. ...........................
9
Years.
Stations.
Rate per cent. to Average Strength
Present of
Admissions. Daily Sick. Deaths in
H o s p i t a l .
1874
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bombay
. .....................
97.5
4.0
1 . 3
1875 . ..................... Do.. .....................
90.1
3.2
0.9
1876 . ..................... Do. . .....................
80.6
2.5
0.4
Average . . .
89.4
3.2
0.9
1877 . ..................... Bombay. .....................
82.8
2.5
1.1
Invaliding and its causes.
Recommendations and require-
ments.