MYSORE DIVISION.
71
Drill .—The regiment turns out twice a week in the mornings from 6.to 7 A.M. Two
days per week are given to company drill morning and evening. In the evening from 4 ½
t o 6 ½ P . M , T h e r u n n i n g d r i l l i s k e p t u p o n M o n d a y m o r n i n g s i n s t e a d o f d r i l l o n p a r a d e
ground from 7 ½ to 8 A.M. This running the men have gone through in their " working dress."
Exercises .—The Sappers have a good gymnasium, attended both by Europeans and
Natives ; cricket is also occasionally played. The Europeans have a billiard table. The
Conductor is Gymnastic Instructor, and takes considerable pains with the men. There are
tolerably good soldiers' gardens under cultivation.
Drill.
Exercises.
Fighting men 60
Number.
Successful
...
...
...
...
...
5 2
Unsuccessful
...
...
...
...
...
15
Total
6 7
Followers and
Children.
Successful
...
...
...
...
...
7 1
Unsuccessful ...
...
...
...
...
1 6
Unknown
...
...
...
...
...
1
Total
88
Vaccination.
One case of small-pox occurred during the past year.
Zymotic diseases.—There have been no overcrowding, no defective ventilation, and the
general sanitary condition has been very good. Dengue has been epidemic in the Sapper
lines. We have had 220 cases, In a few the peculiar ardent fever with scarlatinal spot
was very marked, but the majority suffered more from rheumatismal symptoms. I do not
think the station or condition of the locality has had anything to do with the epidemic. I
believe it to be wholly atmospheric and beyond control.
Zymotic dis-
eases.
Hospital.
Name of
Hospital.
Average Number
of Sick in
Hospital Wards.
Average Monthly
Superficial and
Number of Cubic Feet
per Patient.
. . . . . .
18.90
Superficial Feet
110.90.
Cubic Feet 1,520.
The ventilation of hospital is always good. There has been on overcrowding in the
hospital wards.
Latrines .—Latrine is always kept clean and in good order. The dry-earth system is
used. The representation made with the view of improving the old latrines was that the
floor should be slabbed with granite, and a V-shaped inclined granite drain outside the
rear of latrine put down. At present the latrine remains in statu quo.
General conclusions .—The general health of the head-quarters of the corps may be said
to have been good. There have been more admissions into hospital during- the past than
the previous year, but this is owing entirely to the epidemic of dengue which is prevailing.
Excluding the 220 admissions for dengue, the regiment may be said to have been less
affected by the usual diseases than last year, when we had 443 admissions without any
epidemic.
The following are Deputy Surgeon-General Ranking's remarks on the Sap-
pers :—
Barracks and regimental lines .—The barracks and their accommodation, for this corps
is precisely the same as last year. The lines have undergone no change, except that drain-
age by V-shaped section drains is now complete, and fits in with the general drainage of the
town. There is an arrangement (a sluice) by which storm waters during heavy falls of
rain, when the drains are full, can be diverted to the ordinary drainage channels which
lead into the Ulsoor tank, but ordinarily all sewage finds its way into the sewage channels
which empty themselves into the main sewer which passes beneath the said tank. The
drains during dry weather, from the small quantity of sewage (waste waters from the huts
of sepoys) which finds its way into them, would be the better for occasional flushing, and
the Commanding Officer proposes to meet this want by applying for the use of a fire-engine,
which he proposes to employ frequently in this way, and which will be as advantageous to
the sanitary state of the lines as it will be to the practice of the men in the use of the
engine, and to the maintenance of the engine itself' in a serviceable condition, and I shall so
advise the Officer Commanding the Division.
Sanitary condition of all buildings .—The sanitary condition of all buildings in connex-
ion with the barracks and family quarters is good. Latrines are kept upon the dry-earth
system with coal-tar. The guard-room for the quarter-guard is, as reported last year, far
Latrines.
General con-
clusions.
Barracks and
Regimental
lines.
Sanitary con-
dition of al1
buildings.