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Diseases.
Hospital.
Duties.
Conservancy.
Hospital.
Bedding and
furniture.
the sandals or boots suffices to heal up the slight sores. When on the march the men all
wore sandals, and, as a rule, on a long march they took them off and carried them in their
hands. It always seemed to me they got on better without them.
Duty.— The duties have never been arduous; they consist of the usual guard mountings,
parades, treasure guards, &c. They have had no injurious effect upon their health. The
drill parades consist of four weekly during the hot weather in the morning between 5 A.M.
and 7 A.M.; during the monsoon four or five in the week; when the weather permits, and dur-
-ing the cold season generally, five morning and two evening parades.
Average nights in bed 4½ in 7.
Drill.— During the cold season there is morning drill for five days every week and four
evening parades; during the hot season from three to five parades every week in the morn--
ing; during the rains there are morning and evening parades; when the weather is favorable
the parades, as a rule, never last more than one hour. All ranks of the regiment (with the
exception of the mounted European officers) went through the "running drill" last season;
there were no bad effects apparent even among the men of long service.
Vaccination.—Vaccination has been well carried out in the regiment; there are very
few unprotected people living in the regimental lines. There has been no small-pox, and
re-vaccination was not necessary.
Duty.
Drill.
Vaccination.
Diseases.— There were no epidemic diseases; chicken-pox and mumps prevailed to a
slight extent during the early part of the hot weather. The 19 cases of dysentery and 10 of
diarrhœa were nearly all isolated cases, and not the result of epidemic influence.
Hospital.— The ventilation in both the regimental hospital at Raepore and Nagode is
most satisfactory. No representations on the subject were made.
There was no overcrowding.
The drainage in both the regimental hospitals at Raepore and Nagode has been very
good; a new drain is being constructed at the back of the regimental hospital at Nagode.
The dry-earth system has been carried out in both the hospitals. No representations have
been made on this subject.
Water-supply.— The hospital water-supply in both hospitals has been good and suffi--
cient; it is drawn from well-made masonry wells.
The following are extracts from the report of Deputy Inspector-General
Tribe, who inspected the corps :—
Water-supply
Lines.— They are clean, well ventilated, and well drained, both naturally and artificially.
Sanitary condition.— The sanitary condition of all buildings in connection with the
lines is good; there are no cesspools or foul drains, and all excreta are conveyed to a dis--
tance and buried.
Water-supply.— There are four wells in the lines, of which two are never dry, and the
sepoys resort to two tanks for drinking water; the one close at hand becomes foul in the hot
weather, when they obtain water from a tank about half a mile off, which appears to be never
dry.
Lines.
Sanitary con-
dition.
Water-supply
Duties.— Not as a rule prejudicial to health; when the whole regiment is here, the sepoys
have four nights in bed, but the wing have only two.
Conservancy.— Conservancy excellent.
Hospital.— The hospital, on the old standard plan, is clean, well drained, and well venti--
lated, accommodates 48 patients, and is supplied with water from a fine well near the Civil
Dispensary. The conservancy is unexceptionable.
Bedding an d furniture.— The head-quarter wing has taken the larger half of the bed--
ding (for eight cots), &c., with it. It was in good order when I inspected it at Soonjee on the
24th. Here the detached wing has a large quantity of bedding, but I have directed the excess
to be made over to the 31st Light Infantry upon their arrival here, the wing taking with it
only bedding for seven cots, &c. There are 28 blankets, 37 palliasses, 52 pillows and cases, 18
cotton quilts, the latter generally in bad repair, but being gradually repaired.
Principal diseases.— There are 17 sick; general debility seven, fevers three, ulcer two,
and rheumatism, sciatica, diarrhœa, dysentery, and bubo, of each one. Of these nine are in
hospital and eight in the lines, the latter candidates for pension. As during the monsoon
the whole country for some 20 miles was under water, an unusually sickly season was
expected, but, strange to say, it has been unusually healthy, the admissions from malarious
fevers up to 12th November having been only 238. The total admissions have been 487.
Of diseases other than fevers, rheumatism and ulcer have each furnished 31 admissions
and dysentery 18, others being few in number. There has been the large number of 12
deaths, three from fever, one each from diarrhœa, dysentery, ascaris lumbricoides, and
phthisis. There have also been three from bronchitis and two from pneumonia, presuma--
bly complications of fever. I can form no conception as to the reason of the healthiness of
the present season; it upset all the ideas I had formed on the subject. Dr. Trimnell attributes
it to the lowness of the temperature during the rains having induced less vegetable growth.
Vaccination.— Sixty-two vaccinated, of whom 58 were successful. I examined 20
children in the lines, one had had small-pox, and one, the brother-in-law of a sepoy, a late
arrival, was unvaccinated. All the rest had marks of vaccination.
Principal dis--
eases.
Vaccination.