Position of
barracks.
Water-
supply.
Diet.
Duty and exercises.
Epidemic
diseases.
N A G P O R E F O R C E . 9 9
3 1 s t R e g i m e n t I n f a n t r y .
STATION—RAEPORE.
Arrived from Berhampore 1st March 1873
Average strength
695
D o . d o . p r e s e n t
689
A d m i s s i o n s
569
D a i l y s i c k
14
D e a t h s i n h o s p i t a l
3
D o . o u t o f d o .
1
Pensioned
17
S i c k l e a v e
6
The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding as
contrasted with previous years:—
Years .
Stations.
Rate per Cent. of
Average Strength Present.
Average Strength.
Admissions. Daily Sick. All Deaths. Pensioned. Sick Leave.
1872
Right Wing, Berhampore
Left Wing, Sumbulpore
117.88
3.23
1.26
.70
.98
1873
Raepore
70.27
1.87
1.42
3.98
.42
1874
Do.
90.48
2.11
1.31
4.87
.44
Average
92.87
2.40
1.33
3.18
.61
1875
Raepore
82.58
2.03
.57
2.44
.86
Surgeon W. R. Browne, M.D., was in medical charge of this corps during the
year, and reports as under:—
Position of barracks. —The regimental lines are separated from the town by about half a mile
of open country; they are situated upon elevated ground, having a good slope in all directions.
Water-supply .—Water is obtained from several wells and tanks in the cantonment. During
the greater part of the year the water is taken from the wells and from a shallow tank near the lines;
both wells and tank, however, dry up towards the end of the hot weather, and recourse is then
h a d t o a l a r g e t a n k a b o u t a m i l e f r o m t h e l i n e s .
Diet .—Provisions and vegetables have been cheap and plentiful; the troops have therefore
received no compensation.
Duty and exercises. —Average number of nights in bed 4.
Epidemic diseases. —Cholera prevailed in the district from March to September, reaching the
town of Raepore in August; here cases occurred at varying intervals in different parts of the town,
but the disease did not assume the characters of a true epidemic. No cases occurred in the
regimental lines, and only two cases occurred in the cantonment, both being servants in the house of
the Adjutant. No remarks have been made by my predecessors as to the cause of the disease.
None of the causes of epidemic diseases enumerated in the question existed.
Ventilation of the hospital.—The hospital is a large, well ventilated building.
Ventilation of
the hospital.
Hospital drainage .—There is no system of drainage in connexion with the hospital. The
latrines are large and clean; the dry-earth system of conservancy is efficiently carried out. The
evacuations are received in chatties, while the urine and water used for washing purposes are
received into a tank immediately outside the latrines, whence they are daily removed.
Hospital
drainage.
Hospital water-supply.—The water-supply is good and abundant.
Hospital
water-supply.
General conclusions .—The health of the regiment during the year has been good. There were
569 admissions into hospital with only 3 deaths. These figures compare favourably with those
of the preceding year, as the following figures show:—
1874.
1875.
Admissions
599
569
D e a t h s
7
3
The majority of admissions were for intermittent fever, 332 having been due to this cause.
Ague seems to have been prevalent throughout the year, but more especially during the monsoon
and cold season. The maximum number of admissions, viz ., 48, occurred in October, the
minimum, viz ., 9, in April. The disease appears to have been of a mild form; in October the
average duration of the cases was 6.58 days, in April 5.33. Only 7 cases of remittent fever were
General conclusions.