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population for several days prior to the above date, and it is difficult to ascertain the precise
time when the first case occurred in the town. The disease prevailed in Rangoon for
several weeks before it appeared here. The character of the disease varied considerably.
In a few cases the fever, head-ache, pains in the limbs, and rash appeared almost at the
outset, and these cases were of short duration. In other instances the rash did not appear
till the sixth day and lingered on for a few days. These cases were not severe. In some the
prostration pains in the limbs, fever, and especially head-ache, were very severe when
delirium seemed to be imminent. I have seen but one death, a Eurasian child, who died
of delirium and coma probably from want of proper attention at first. Cases such as the
above I have seen amongst the civil population. In the detachment out of a strength of
120 men there were 77 admissions from dengue. The symptoms were fever of a continued
form, pains over the whole body, particularly severe in the small joints of the hands awl feet,
in the loins and head. The conjunctivæ were red, with pains in the eye-balls. The fever
and severe symptoms lasted from one to three days, according as the case was mild or
severe ; in some no rash was visible ; in those in whom it did appear was slight, and generally
came on about the third day. The pains in the small joints lasted generally from ten to
fifteen days, when the men were fit for duty. There was no death, and the cases were on
the whole not severe. The last admission was on the 29th August. The Right Wing, 39th
Regiment, Native Infantry, arrived at this station on the 27th August. They were accom-
modated in barracks close to the men of the 27th Regiment, Native Infantry, but no cases
of dengue occurred amongst them. None of the officers or their families got the disease,
though many of their servants suffered from it. It is considered that the disease was milder
here than at any other station in Burmah.
Hospital .—Satisfactory. No representation was needed.
There has been no overcrowding.
Drainage .—The drainage around the hospitals, kitchen, and latrine was imperfect ;
but the matter having been represented prior to our arrival at the station, new drains
have been built ; the state of the hospital latrine is satisfactory, the dry-earth system is
properly- carried out.
W a t e r - s u p p l y
. — I t
h a s b e e n s a t i s f a c t o r y .
General conclusions .—With the exception of dengue there was no disease prevalent in
the regiment during the past year. Ague, which has the next highest number of admissions,
was of the quotidian type, and was generally so mild that it was checked in a few days,
and was never followed by more severe results than a little functional. derangement of the
digestive system. Dysentery was mild except in one case, for the severity of which a degree
of scorbutus was accountable. The number of cases of itch has been out of proportion
the admission for other diseases. The causation of this affection is charged to the use of
salted fish and insufficient nourishment, but many of the above cases were strong and well
nourished. The barracks were clean. There was nothing peculiar in the other diseases,
that they do not call for any special. remarks. Four men were sent on sick leave to India
There was no death amongst the men, whose health the reports account for.
Hospital.
Drainage.
Water-supply
General con-
clusions.
Deputy Inspector-General Burn reports as follows in his Annual. Report on
the Corps :—
Barracks .—The barracks consist of nine large wooden buldings, and are of the usual
description always seen and so often described in Burmah. As regards site they are situated
on rising ground, affording great natural facility for drainage, and are arranged in parallel
lines separated by a space of 32 feet with the. exception of No 9 which is built in
advance of the other parallel to the Barrack Main Guard. The barracks are clean, are raised
on posts varying in different barracks from 4 to 8 feet in length, and are ventilated by a
space between the eaves and wall plates as well as by eighteen doors and thirty-two windows
in each building. No. 8, however, has fifty doors with eight windows, and No. 9 ten doors and
six windows. The average size of the doors are 6 feet 11 inches square. The drainage by
natural configuration is favorable, and it is otherwise attended to ; each barrack is lighted
by three hanging lamps supported on iron hooks. They face west or rather west by north,
and the accommodation afforded has been ample, for during the past year they have Onl
y been occupied by a company of the 27th N. I. and a wing of the 39th Regiment N. I. The
following table gives the measurement of the buildings :—
Barracks.
No. of building
in 27 Lines.
Description.
Length. Breadth. Height
Superficial
Area.
Cubic.
Contents.
1
Barrack or Main Guard
60
17.5
1 0
50
500
1
Band Barrack
6 0
17.5
10
50
500
8
Barracks, each
233
20
12.6
4,660
58,716
1
Magazine Guard
50
40
10
2,000
20,000
31— c