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(or the Plague Commissioner) so as to reach their destination
not later than the 5th of the first month of each quarter.
The estimate submitted by the Surgeon-General includes
provision for all Medical officers, nurses, &c., who have been
sent out by the Secretary of State and are temporarily
attached to hospitals, &c., in Madras prior to their being-
posted to duties in connection with plague work. Estimates
are also framed in the Secretariat Departments in which
additional establishments in connection with plague corre-
spondence are entertained.
(P.C., No. 910, dated 14th December 1898 ; G.Os., No. 154, Financial, dated 27th
January 1899 ; No. 804, Financial, dated 31st July 1899.)
6. In order to enable Government to obtain an approxi-
mately correct revised estimate of plague expenditure for
inclusion in the preliminary edition of the Civil budget
estimate which is forwarded to the Government of India, the
estimate for the third quarter shall be submitted so as to
reach its destination on the 5th November instead of the 5th
October and shall show (1) actual expenditure up to the 31st
-October, (2) estimate for November and December, (3)
estimate for the last quarter of the official year, and (4) total
estimate for the year. This estimate shall be accompanied
by an estimate for the ensuing official year based on the con-
ditions existing at the time of framing the estimate. This
latter estimate need not provide for each quarter of the
year separately.
(G.O., No. 906, Financial, dated 17th August 1899.)
7. The estimates shall cover all plague charges—direct
and indirect—under Provincial, Local, Municipal, Canton-
ment and Port and Marine Funds. Provision shall be made
therein for requirements based on conditions existing at the
time of framing the estimates.
(G.Os., No. 899, Financial, dated 19th October 1898; No. 1054, Financial, dated 14th
November 1898.)
8. If Collectors and other officers find that their estimates
as passed by Government are inadequate, it is their duty to
apply for extra grants at once. It should be clearly under-
stood by all officers that expenditure can be incurred only
against the quarterly allotments passed by Government, and
that although it is not the intention that plague operations
should cease, because it is found that the allotment is being
exceeded in any quarter, the officer concerned will be held
responsible for exercising proper supervision over the expendi-
ture and applying at the earliest possible moment it becomes
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apparent that funds are becoming exhausted. Balances aris-
ing from the fact that the quarterly estimates do not utilize
fully the allotments existing in their sanctioned annual bud-
gets shall not be utilized for non-plague purposes.
(G.Os., No. 868, Financial, dated 11th October 1898; No. 569, Financial, dated 3rd
May 1899 ; No. 906, Financial, dated 17th August 1899.)
9. Forms of the estimates will be printed and supplied by
the Accountant-General. No changes shall be made in the
form without the approval of the Financial Department. The
figures for each municipality shall be given separately.
(G-.Os., No. 478, Financial, dated 1st April 1899; Mia. No. 522. Financial, dated
17th April 1899, P.C.'s No. 1144, dated 26th April 1899.)
10. Plague Expenditure.—Bach municipality shall bear its
own plague charges. As regards district boards, the measures
adopted in frontier districts proper, i.e., those districts which
adjoin plague-stricken areas outside the Madras Presidency,
while benefiting those districts themselves as being nearest
the seat of infection, at the same time have the direct result
of protecting other portions of the Presidency as well. This
condition is also fulfilled, in some measure, by districts in
which Railway Inspection Stations have been established by
Notification in the Fort St. George Gazette. Expenditure
incurred by district boards in such districts on plague
preventive measures is therefore distributed by Government
in the ratios of one-third in frontier districts proper and of
one-fourth in railway inspection districts against the district
in which the expenditure is incurred, the remaining two-thirds
or three-fourths, as the case may be, being contributed by
the other districts of the Presidency rateably to their annual
receipts as shown in their budget estimates for the year.
The estimates shall, however, provide for the gross expendi-
ture to be incurred by each district board, credit for the
contribution being taken as subsequently advised by the
Accountant-General.
(G.Os., No. 547, Financial, dated 18th June 1898 ; No. 883, Financial, dated 13th
October 1898 ; No. 1122, Financial, dated 28th November 1898 ; No. 7, Financial, dated
3rd January 1899 ; No. 947, Financial, dated 30th August 1899.)
11. If any district board or municipality finds its funds
unequal to the burden of plague charges, it shall revise its
budget by omitting all avoidable expenditure, and in the last
resort may apply for an advance from Provincial Funds or for
a loan from the Government of India. Care shall be taken
that advances granted by Government to local bodies to meet
plague expenditure are applied to the precise purposes for
30
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which the advances were made, and are not utilized to relieve
their ordinary funds of expenditure on sanitary, medical and
other objects.
(G.Os., No. 514-P., dated 25th May 1898; No. 261, Financial, dated 18th February 1899.)
12. The Accountant-General shall submit monthly state-
ments of charges—direct and indirect—under Provincial and
Local (audited) and under Municipal, Port and Marine and
Cantonment Funds, together with summaries under each head
showing totals to date and the latest grants for each district.
These statements shall also include all expenditure incurred
in connection with the plague which has not been brought to
book as direct or indirect, e.g., the emoluments of officers and
establishments forming part of existing departments or ser-
vices and not replaced by substitutes, but exclusively engaged
on plague duties, and shall reach Government early in the
month succeeding that in which the accounts are received by
the Accountant-General.
(G.Os., No. 865, Financial, dated 1st. August 1899; No. 939, Financial, dated
29th August 1899.)
13. Classification of Plague Charges.—(i) The appended
list shows the proper classification of charges commonly
incurred in connection with plague.
(ii) "Direct" plague expenditure means expenditure
exhibited in the Government accounts under the head 24-D.
MEDICAL—Grants for Medical Purposes—Expenses in connec-
tion with Bubonic Plague. "Indirect" plague expenditure
means extra expenditure due to plague but brought to account
under the ordinary appropriate service heads.
(iii) The amount of "Indirect" plague expenditure
is therefore not ascertainable from the ordinary Provincial
and Incorporated Local Fund Accounts and special state-
ments are prepared in the course of audit by the Accountant-
General in the case of expenditure from General Revenues
and by the Treasury officer in the case of expenditure from
Incorporated Local Funds.
(iv) To facilitate the preparation of these statements
all officers who draw bills for " Indirect" plague expenditure
should write conspicuously at the head of each such bill,
beside the account head, the word PLAGUE in red ink.
If only some of the items in a bill are Indirect plague
charges, the word PLAGUE should be written against each
such item instead of at the head of the bill.
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(v) It is to be noted that pay and allowances of officers
and establishments forming part of existing departments or
services whose employment on plague duty does not involve
the payment of salaries to other persons for the performance
of their legitimate duties (even though they may be exclusively
engaged on plague duties) and not receiving extra allowances
on account of plague, do not constitute " Indirect" plague
charges (and of course are not "Direct" plague charges)
because they do not involve extra expense. A statement
should be forwarded to the Accountant-General by the 20th of
each month showing the pay and allowances, drawn in the
previous month, of officers and establishments so employed.
(vi) From the above it will be seen that the distinc-
tion between " Direct " and " Indirect " plague expenditure
affects the accounts of Incorporated Local Funds expenditure
and Provincial expenditure. As regards Excluded Local
Funds this distinction is unnecessary and all extra expenditure,
i.e., expenditure which would not have been incurred but for
the occurrence or imminence of plague may be shown under
the head Plague.
(vii) It is a general principle that the salaries and
allowances (including travelling allowance) of officers whether
belonging to the Indian Civil Service, the Indian Staff Corps,
the Indian Medical Service or the Army Medical Service, and
of superior officers of the Forest, Survey, Customs, Salt and
other departments deputed, wholly or in addition to their own
duties, to perform plague duty as well as the emoluments of
nurses procured from Europe and of medical men similarly
procured, should be met entirely out of Provincial Funds and
should not be charged directly to the funds of municipalities
or local bodies.
(viii) Contingent expenditure on account of plague, e.g.,
stationery, postage, telegrams, office furniture and such like,
should be charged against the head of account to which the
salaries of the officers incurring such expenditure are debited.
As between independent establishments entertained to deal
with plague, the principle that officers of superior grades
should be charged to Provincial and officers of inferior grades
to Local should be applied. With regard to dependent
establishments, the principle that the charge should follow
the pay of the officer on whom the establishment is dependent
should hold both in regard to establishments and contin-
gencies,
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LIST OF PLAGUE CHARGES.
[Note.—The Regulations referred to in the list are the Additional Mufussal Regula-
tions—G.O., No. 93 P., dated 26th February 1898.]
PROVINCIAL—INDIRECT.
3. LAND REVENUE—Charges of District Administration.
General
Establishments—
Salaries.
Establishment.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
Sub-divisional Establishments—
Establishment.
Allowances.
(1) Cost of additions to office
establishments of Revenue officers
necessitated by plague (Regulation
13).
(2) Pay and allowances of tem-
porary additions to the Revenue
staff necessitated by plague.
Contingencies.
15. POST OFFICE—District Post Charges.
Establishments.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(3) Additional Post Establish-
ments for serving plague camps.
18. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION—Civil Secretariats.
Chief
Secretariat—
Establishment.
Local and Municipal
Depart-
ment—
Establishment.
(4) Extra establishment required
for dealing with plague correspond-
ence.
19-A. LAW AND JUSTICE—COURTS OF LAW—Criminal Courts.
Charges of Stationary Sub-Magis-
trates.
Special Sub-Magistrate.
Temporary Establishment.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(5) Court required in consequence
of plague.
20. POLICE.
Presidency Police.
District Executive Force.
Railway Police.
(
6) Additional police entertained
in consequence of plague.
24-A. MEDICAL—Medical Establishment.
District Medical and
Sanitary
Officers—
Allowances.
Reserve Medical Subordinates—
Allowances.
(7) Extra allowances on account
of plague of Medical officers and
subordinates
performing plague
duties in addition to ordinary duties.
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24-C. MEDICAL—Sanitation and Vaccination.
Sanitary Department —
Establishment.
(8) Extra establishment employed
in the office of the Sanitary Commis-
sioner in connection with plague
work.
30-C. STATIONERY AND PRINTING.
8. (a) Cost of printing passports and passes at the Government
Press (Regulation 29).
PROVINCIAL—DIRECT.
24-D. MEDICAL—Grants for Medical Purposes.
Salaries —
Salaries of Superior Medical
officers and Military officers.
Plague allowances of Superior
Medical officers and Military
officers.
Salaries of Subordinate Medical
officers.
Plague allowances of Subordi-
nate Medical officers.
Exchange compensation allow-
ance.
House-rent allowances.
Local allowances.
Establishments —
Allowances —
Tentage of officers.
Travelling
allowances of
gazetted officers.
Travelling allowances of non-
gazetted officers and estab-
lishments.
Supplies and Services —
Petty construction and repair
of buildings.
Contribution to private hos-
pitals.
Dieting charges.
Cost of instruments, medicines
and disinfectants.
Hospital clothing and bedding.
Other hospital equipment and
necessaries.
(9) Pay and allowances of Medi-
cal officers and subordinates includ-
ing clerks and passport-issuing officers
exclusively employed on plague duty
in connection with the inspection and
observation of travellers by sea and
by railway and the segregation and
medical treatment of such as are
affected or suspected to be affected
with plague, at seaports, or at rail-
way stations notified as railway
inspection stations in the Fort St.
George Gazette.
(10) Temporary establishments
entertained for the purposes men-
tioned in No. (9).
(11) Grants for the construction,
&c., of private plague hospitals.
(12) Cost of construction of sheds
and cost of medical stores, disinfect-
ants, &c., required strictly for the
purposes specified in No. (9).
(13) Pay and allowances of Mili-
tary officers whose services are form-
ally placed at the disposal of the
Civil department for employment on
plague duty and of clerks and ser-
vants attached to them wherever
they may be employed.
(14) Pay and allowances of Gov-
ernment officers other than those
mentioned in items Nos. (9; and (13)
specially deputed by Government
for employment in connection with
plague measures, and clerks and
servants attached to them,
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Contingencies —
Tour charges.
Service postage.
Do. telegrams.
Purchase of furniture.
Repairs of
do.
Carbon paper supplied to pass-
port-issuing officers at sea-
ports or at railway stations
notified as railway inspection
stations in the Fort St. George
Gazette
Office expenses.
Miscellaneous.
(15) Extra allowances on account
of plague of Military officers and
men who remain on the strength of
their regiments though detailed for
plague duty, and all extra expendi-
ture due to their deputation if (in
the case of men only) their services
are utilized for purposes mentioned
in No. (9).
The extra allowances on account
of plague of Military officers are
debitable to Provincial, whether they
are engaged for purposes mentioned
in No. (9) or not.
LOCAL—INDIRECT.
81-J. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION—General Establishment of Local Funds.
Establishments.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(16) Extra establishment em-
ployed in Local Fund offices.
24-A. MEDICAL—Medical Establishment.
District Medical and Sanitary
Officer's establishment—
Establishments.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(17) Additions to the office estab-
lishment of District Medical and
Sanitary Officer.
24-B. MEDICAL—Hospitals and Dispensaries.
Salaries.
Establishments.
Allowances.
Supplies and Services.
Contingencies.
(18) Extra expenditure in exist-
ing hospitals and dispensaries due
to plague.
24-C. MEDICAL—Sanitation and Vaccination.
Sanitation and Conservancy—
Establishment.
Allowances.
Supplies and Services.
Contingencies.
(19) Additions to existing sanitary
staff for plague work.
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LOCAL—DIRECT.
Salaries—
Salaries of Subordinate Medical
officers.
House-rent allowance.
Plague allowance.
(20) Pay and allowances of
Establishment—
Matrons and
nurses.
Medical subordinates, clerks and
passport-issuing officers employed
Compounders.
in plague hospitals and at railway
Ward attendants and servants. stations not notified as railway
Storekeepers.
inspection stations in the Fort St.
Establishments entertained at George Gazette and the road frontier
plague camps and road frontier inspection stations.
inspection stations and at (21) Cost of observation staff
railway, stations not notified Consisting of plague supervisors,
as railway inspection stations plague inspectors, assistant plague
in the Fort St. George Gazette. inspectors and their peons (Reg. 6).
Allowances-
(22) Ambulance staff (Regs.
Travelling allowances.
9, 10 and 21).
Supplies and Services-
(23) Cost of camp establish-
Petty construction and repairs
ments
superintendents
and
of buildings.
gumastahs and menial servants
Funeral expenses.
(Reg.
27).
Dietary charges.
(24) Cost of construction of
Clothing and bedding
plague
hospitals
and
"observa-
Cost of medicines and
instru- tion," "suspect," "health" and
ments and disinfectants. "staff" "suspect," "health" and
Other hospital necessaries. (25) Cost of stretchers, medi-
Contingencies—
cal
stores,
disinfectants, comforts
Purchase of furniture.
and furniture and clothing for
Repairs of
do.
plague hospitals (Eeg. 8).
Tour charges.
Nos.
(20)
to
(25)
must
be
Postage charges.
understood as referring to ex-
Telegraph charges.
penditure for purposes other than
Carbon paper supplied to pass- those specified in No. (9).
port-issuing officers at railway
(26) Extra expenditure due to
stations not notified as rail- the deputation of troops on plague
way inspection stations in the duties other than those specified in
Fort St. George Gazette and No. (9)-See also No. (15).
at road frontier inspection
stations.
Office expenses.
Miscellaneous.
(G.O., No. 1093, Financial, dated 5th October 1899.)
14. Fines recovered in prosecutions under the Plague
Regulations should be credited to fines under Law and
Justice.
(G.O., No. 83, Judicial, dated 12th January 1899.)
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F R O M T H E I N S P E C T I O N R E P O R T S O F D E P U T Y I N S P E C T O R S G E N E R A L O F H O S P I T A L S .
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C O M P L I E D I N T H E O F F I C E O F I N S P E C T O R G E N E R A L O F H O S P I T A L , I N D I A N M E D I C A L D E P A R T M E N T ( B O M B A Y . )
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SKETCH
OF THE
MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BOMBAY,
FOR THE
YEAR 1870.
EXTRACTED FROM THE ANNUAL RETURNS, FROM THE REPORTS OF REGIMENTAL MEDICAL OFFICERS, AND
FROM THE INSPECTION REPORTS OF DEPUTY INSPECTORS GENERAL OF HOSPITALS.
[ALL STATISTICAL INFORMATION IS GIVEN IN THE TABLES AT THE END.]
COMPILED IN THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF HOSPITALS, INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT (BOMBAY.)
BY
SURGEON T. E. P. MARTIN,
ACTING SECRETARY TO INSPECTOR GENERAL, INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Bombay:
PRINTED AT THE
EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, BYCULLA.
1871.
INDEX.
The Regiments are placed as they stood in the Army List on the 1st of July 1870.
PRESIDENCY DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
PAGE
PAGE •
21st Regiment Native Infantry, Bombay. 1 22nd Regiment Native Infantry, Bombay
3
Detachment 2nd Grenadier Regiment
Native Infantry, Bombay
3
Wing of 10th Regiment Native Infantry,
Tanna
4
Details attached to the 21st Regiment
Native Infantry, Bombay
3
13th Regiment Native Infantry, Surat
5
POONA DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
3rd Regiment Native Light Cavalry,
Poona
6
16th Regiment Native Infantry, Ahmed-
nuggur
36
9th Regiment Native Infantry, Poona
7 4th Regiment Native Infantry (Rifles),
Sholapore
36
23rd Regiment Native Infantry, Poona
11
24th Regiment Native Infantry, Poona... 12 2nd Regiment Native Infantry, Sattara
37
1st Company Native Artillery, Malli-
Baum
16
Detachment 2nd Reg
Regiment Native Infan-
try, Asseerghur
38
1st Grenadier Regiment Native Infantry B e l g a u m . 38
10th Regiment Native Infantry, Malli-
gaum
16 5th Regiment Native Infantry, Belgaum
43
Detachment Poona Horse, Dhoolia
23 7th Regiment Native Infantry, Dharwar
43
25th Regiment Native Infantry.Dhoolia
25th Regiment Native Infantry, Dhoolia. 23 17th Regiment Native Infantry, Kolapore 40
Sappers and Miners, Kirkee
25
Poona Horse, Seroor
27
NORTHERN AND MHOW DIVISIONS OF THE ARMY.
6th Regiment Native Infantry, Ahmeda-
bad
50
3rd Regiment Native Infantry, Mhow
64
14th Regiment Native Infantry, Mhow
64
8th Regiment Native Infantry, Ahmeda-
bad
50
2nd Regiment Native Light Calvalry, Nee-
much
67
18th Regiment Native Infantry, Rajcote. 51 28th Regiment Native Infantry, Neemuch 68
1st Regiment Native Light Cavalry, Deesa 52 11th Regiment Native Infantry, Nnsseera-
bad
72
20th Regiment Native Infantry, Deesa... 57
19th Regiment Native Infantry, Bhooj
6 0 15th Regiment Native Infantry, Mehidpore 75
26th Regiment Native Infantry, Baroda. 63 Wing 15th Regiment Native Infantry, Au-
gur 79
Detachment 25th Regiment Native In-
fantry, Burda Chowkey
64
SIND DISTRICT.
29th Regiment Native Infantry, Kur-
rachee
82
1st Sind Horse, Jacobabad
84
2nd Sind Horse, Jacobabad
86
27th Regiment Native Infantry, Hydra-
bad
83
3rd Sind Horse, Jacobabad
90
30th Regiment Native Infantry, Jacobabad. 90
iv
INDEX.
ADEN DIVISION.
PAGE
PAGE
2nd Company Native Artillery ...
... 94 3rd Company Sappers and Miners...
.,. 96
12th Regiment Native Infantry
... 94 Aden Troop ......
..
...
... 96
STATISTICAL TABLES.
Statement showing the Sickness and Mortality among the Native Troops serving in the
Bombay Presidency during the year
...
...
...
...
...
...
. . . 98
APPENDIX.
Return showing the Health of the Native Troops in the Poona Division for 1870 compared
with 1869 ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
—106
No. 2061 OF 1871.
FROM THE INSPECTOR GENERAL,
INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
TO THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,
MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
Bombay, 25th May 1871.
SIR,—I have the honour to forward for submission to His Excellency the
Governor in Council, the Medical History of the Native Army for 1870, which
has been compiled in my office.
2. As this is the first appearance of this History, I would observe that the
general principle adopted in its compilation, has been to allow executive and ad
-ministrative officers to speak of their charges for themselves. This has been
done advisedly, in the hope that it will act as a stimulus to painstaking effort in
the preparation of Returns and Reports.
3. The year 1870 may be said to have been a healthy one amongst the
Native Troops, and contrasts favourably with 1869:
During the year 1870 there were 28,370 admissions and 191 deaths; the
average strength being 22,680, giving a percentage of 125.09 of admissions, and
of 0.84 of deaths to average strength.
In the year 1869, with a strength of 24,166, there were 32,065 admissions
and 221 deaths; or a percentage of admissions to strength 132.68, and of deaths
to strength 0.91.
The strength of the Native Troops on the 31st December 1870, was 23,670.
4. The decrease in sickness during the year mainly occurred under the head
of "fever," as will be seen from the following table:—
Admissions.
Difference
1870.
1809.
Decrease.
19th Regiment, Bhooj
515
1,361
846
29th
„
Kurrachee
226
810
584
11th
„
Nusseerabad
625
1,019
394
Sappers and Miners, Kirkee
168
340
172
Poona Horse, Seroor
67
194
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