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POONA DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
The following table (an abbreviation of that forwarded with this report) will show at once
the number of cases remaining from the previous year, admissions during the year, and those
in hospital on the 1st January 1873 :—
Diseases.
F r o m l a s t y e a r .
A d m i t t e d .
Re ma i n i n g o n 3 1 s t De c e m- b e r 1 8 7 2 .
Diseases.
F r o m l a s t y e a r .
A d m i t t e d .
R e ma i n i n g o n 3 1 s t De c e m- b e r 1 8 7 2 .
Malarious Fevers . . .
3
98
2
Disease of the Liver. . .
. . .
2
. . .
Rheumatic Affections . . .
3
86
1
Do. Spleen . . .
. . .
3
. . .
Syphilitic do. . . .
4
24
2
Gonorrhœa . . .
. . .
9
. . .
Scorbutic do. . . .
. . .
1
. . .
Abscesses . . .
. . .
27
. . .
Other minor causes of General
Disease . . .
. . .
1
. . .
Ulcers . . .
. . .
42
2
Skin diseases . . .
2
65
2
Disease of the Nervous Sys-
tem
.
.
.
. . .
7
. . .
Other minor causes of Local
diseases . . .
3
32
. . .
Disease of the Eye . . .
1
28
. . .
Debility . . .
. . .
10
. . .
Do. Heart . . .
. . .
1
. . .
Injuries, Shoe-bite, &c. . . .
3
44
. . .
Do. Lungs . . .
. . .
21
2
Total . . . 21 604
12
Do.
Stomach and
Intestines . . .
Diarrhœa . . .
. . .
18
. . .
Dysentery . . .
. . .
15
. . .
Others . . .
2
70
1
Deaths . . . Ague
.
.
.
1
2
Peritonitis . . .
1
Discharged from Hospital . . .
6 1 1
Remaining
.
.
.
1 2
Total treated . . .
6 2 5
There were 101 cases of ague treated; of these one was fatal from congestion of the lungs.
All the other cases were very mild, an emetic or purgative followed by quinine, given either
by the mouth or hypodermically, quickly cured them.
There were 84 cases of rheumatic disease; three of these were of the acute form, and in one
of them, the heart was engaged.
There were 28 cases of syphilitic disease—13 primary and 15 secondary. One of the
latter was very bad, the nasal and palate bones were attacked; he returned from his country
(to which he had gone on leave) a most miserable object, and had to be invalided. On enquiry
into his case, I found out that he had been treated with mercury in the bazar and freely
salivated.
There was only one case of scurvy under treatment, so that I may say that the regiment
is now quite free from that disease.
There were 21 cases of lung disease, 14 of bronchitis, 5 of asthma, 1 of pneumonia, and
1 of hœmophtysis. In most of the cases of bronchitis stimulating expectorants, stimulants,
and soups had to be given. The bowel diseases were, as a rule, mild. There was one case of
peritonitis, and that a fatal one; the man had been ailing for some days, but did not come to
hospital, and only presented himself when he was attacked with acute pain in the abdomen.
He died the day after admission.
The injuries were trifling, by cuts, bruises, shoe-bites, &c.
Vaccination was carried on regularly. Nothing particular to be said about the lines and
hospital, except that a stone floor has been put down in the latter, which is a great improve
-ment.
SANITARY REPORT OF THE SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER ON THE HEALTH OF
NATIVE TROOPS GARRISONED AT BELGAUM DURING THE YEAR 1872.
The native troops which have been stationed at Belgaum, during the past year, were the
the 6th and 12th Regiments N.I., together with the lascars attached to the Ordnance Depart
- ment , maki ng an aggr egat e of 1, 339.
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