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10. Consisted of the usual parades, guards, and escort duty, which had no special effect
on health. Wrestling, parallel and horizontal bars ; of the
first the natives are particularly fond. There was a public ex
-hibition of all the exercises every Thursday afternoon, in which all comers were allowed to
compete with the sepoys : a large number of competitors for wrestling always entered the
arena, the victors receiving turbans as prizes from Colonel Hogg. About 1,000 spectators
weekly assembled to witness the sports.
There were 16 marches, the average distance of each about 9 miles, and the pace
a b o u t 3 ½ m i l e s a n h o u r . T h e r e w e r e 6 h a l t s , d u r i n g w h i c h t h e
men were manoeuvred. Their health during the march was
good, as the weather was dry and moderately cold, though many suffered from severe shoe and
gaiter-bites, and 15 from ague.
11. Situated 100 feet to the rear of and parallel to the lines is a long, flat-roofed, mud
building on a mud plinth of only 6 inches high and surrounded
with a verandah 10 feet wide and 14 feet high on three sides,
and contains 3 wards, 27 feet wide, 14 feet high, and 55, 107, and 53 feet long respectively.
At the east end are the hospital assistant's quarters into which the verandah space is thrown
so as to give a width of 54 feet by 24 feet, and the same height as the wards. A portion of the
verandah, 25 feet long, at the rear of the hospital, and adjoining the hospital assistant's quar
-ters, is built up for a dispensary. There is a good dead-house. The 2nd class hospital
servants' quarters are not well constructed, but are in a fair state of repair. Ventilation is
procured by doors on the front and rear and in the end, and by 16 cowls in the roof similar
to those on the pendalls. No over-crowding. The accommodation is generally sufficient, but
the hospital is not sufficiently elevated, and is too close to the lines : a new hospital on a more
elevated and better site is shortly to be built. The hospital latrine is roofless, built of mud,
and contains 18 receptacles without partitions between them ; the chimam breaks up rapidly,
becomes saturated with the discharges, and smells offensively. The dry-earth system is
carried out, the urine being received into an earthen vessel which is placed in front of each
compartment ; the sewage is removed in a tank cart, and buried at a distance. The latrine
is most objectionably constructed, and a new building with iron pans is required.
12. The chief diseases were—malarious fever 275 ; injuries, including contusion and
shoe-bites, 103; lung-affections 52; digestive system 54; general
diseases, B, 14 ; cutaneous system 44; conjunctivitis 25 ; syphilis,
secondary, 20, of which 9 cases were contracted in Hyderabad ;
syphilis, primary, 17 ; gonorrhœa 10. The fever was all of the intermittent description, and
generally easily cured by quinine ; only 2 deaths occurred. 38 men were invalided, 26 being
pensioned, and 12 discharged with gratuity. Malaria when the inundated ground is drying
up, and cold during winter. Shoe and gaiter-bites also caused.
a large number of admissions ; these latter (gaiters) not only
produce abrasions like the shoes, but rub any pimple, boil, or eruption which may form on
the legs. to which natives are very subject, into irritable sores.
Duties, &c.
Marches.
Hospital.
Sickness, Mortality, and Inva
-liding
Principal Causes of Sickness.
Causes of Mortality.
13. 1 from heart-disease and 1 from phthisis ; both Mus
-sulmans.
14. I strongly recommend, for the efficiency of the regiment and on the score of
economy, that the courtesans should be placed under supervision.
15.Cinchonidine was administered in ague, and seemed to be from ½ to 1 / 3
t h e s t r e n g t h
of quinine, and in severe and obstinate cases frequently failed. The sub-cutaneous injection of
quinine was practised in ague with favourable results, the irritation of the injection generally
disappearing in a few days, and only in 3 cases produced troublesome abscesses.
16. The average temperature of the hot season is 95°, and that of the cold 60° ; the
highest temperature of the hottest day frequently rises to 110°, occasionally even higher.
The lowest of the night in winter is a few degrees below freezing point. The total rainfall
during the year was 7 inches and 91 cents.
17. 21 recruits joined during the year, of which 20 were Mussulmans and 1 Hindu.
The regiment is composed of 546 Mussulmans, 131 Hindus, and 2 Jews.
REMARKS BY DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL J. R. MILLER, M.D.
Duties are not severe. Athletic exercises are encouraged. This greatly conduces to the
health and well-being of the men.
Lines have been previously described. There is no change. Position is satisfactory,
and ventilation good. Accommodation for sepoys sufficient, but is far too limited for the
Native officers. Drainage is surface only, and the lines being placed on a slight incline, water
does not remain. But there is one great defect : the huts are level with the ground, and in
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