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G.O., No. 900-M., dated
13th April 1897.
Provincial.—(i) All charges incurred
on account of superior medical officers,
the magistracy and the police;
G.O., No. 411, Financial,
dated 19th May 1897.
(ii) Cost of telegrams and all other
precautionary charges incurred by
Provincial departments.
G.O., No. 900-M., dated
13th April 1897.
Local and Municipal.—(i) Cost of
subordinate medical staff, hutting,
medical appliances and the like;
G.O., No. 1848-M., dated
24th August 1897.
(ii) All expenses incurred at plague
camps and inspection stations.
"As the expenditure from the above sources would
appear to be considerably in excess of original expectations
and as the question of an eventual contribution from Provin-
cial funds remains undecided, the Government considers that
the Accountant-General would do well to maintain separate
accounts of all the charges, whether direct or indirect, Pro-
vincial or Local, and to include them in the quarterly state-
ments." (G.O., No. 720, Financial, dated 4th September
1897, printed in G.O., No. 2106-M., dated 27th September
1897.)
11,
Order No. 514-P., dated 25th May 1898.--" The suggestion
of the Collector of Kurnool that all expenditure in connection
with the plague should be defrayed in the first instance from
Provincial funds subject bo final adjustment at the close of
the operations cannot be accepted. G.O., No. 720, Financial,
dated 4th September 1897, lays down the incidence of plague
charges, and the Government sees no reason why it should be
deviated from. If any district board or municipality finds its
funds unequal to the burden of plague charges, it should
remodel its budget by omitting all avoidable expenditure and
in the last resort may apply for an advance from Provincial
funds.
"2. The Collector being the officer who should initiate and
control all plague measured in his district, is primarily respons-
ible for making provision for the necessary expenditure, and
it will be his duty to see that municipal and district hoard
budgets are so framed as to provide sufficient funds for carry-
ing out those measures, and in cases where the expenditure
has to be met by Government to obtain grants in ample
time. As most of the Provincial expenditure will fall under
24. Medical, Collectors will be requested to forward their
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applications for grants through the Surgeon-General, who
will, after checking the estimates under the heads controlled
by him, consolidate them in his office and submit them in
print to Government. Except in circumstances of very great
urgency, no Collector should work without a duly sanctioned
grant. Where unforeseen expenditure for which there is no
grant has to be incurred, immediate report of the fact should
be made to Government.
" 3. To enable Government to exercise a proper check
over plague expenditure and to see that the provision of funds
is adequate, the Collector of each district where plague pre-
ventive measures are being taken should, in addition to the
annual estimate referred to in paragraph 2, submit, through
the Surgeon-General by the 5th of each month in the forms
adopted in the civil budget estimates and under the proper
service heads, a detailed statement of the actual expenditure
in the previous month and an estimate of the probable require-
ments for the current month and the remainder of the official
year. In these estimates the grants already sanctioned from
Provincial and the sums which have been made available from
Local and Municipal funds should be shown. The Account-
ant-General is requested to get the necessary forms printed
and supplied to the Collectors concerned and to the Surgeon-
General as soon as possible. The Superintendent, Govern-
ment Press, will see that these forms and estimates are printed
as quickly as possible." (G.O., No. 514-P., dated 25th May
1898.)
12.
G.O., No. 547, financial, dated 18th June 1898.—"The
principles already laid clown in G.O., No. 720, Financial,
dated 4th September 1897, in regard to the distribution of
plague charges between Provincial, Local and Municipal
funds will be adhered to and, as already intimated in para-
graph 1 of G.O., No. 514 P., dated 25th May 1898, the
proposal that all expenditure in connection with the plague
should be defrayed in the first instance from Provincial
funds, cannot be entertained.
" 2. There is some force, however, in the remarks in para-
graph "2 of the letter from the Collector of Bellary, No. 551,
dated 27th March 1898, for there can be no doubt that the
measures adopted in the frontier districts proper which
adjoin or are nearest to the plague-stricken areas of Bombay,
Hyderabad and Bengal, while primarily benefiting those
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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 remark is also to
some extent applicable to such districts as North Arcot and
Coimbatore, which are not frontier districts proper, but in
which special plague inspection stations have been established.
" 3. His Excellency the Governor in Council therefore
directs that the portion of plague expenditure in frontier
districts, which, under G.O., No. 720, Financial, dated 4th
September 1897, is not Provincial, shall, with effect from the
1st April 1898, be distributed in the ratios of one-third in
frontier districts proper, and of one-fourth in such districts
as Coimbatore and North Arcot, 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.
" 4. The estimates called for by the Local and Municipal
Department in paragraph 2 of G.O., No. 514 P., dated 25th
May 1898, should be recast on the foregoing lines, and that
department will be requested to issue the necessary orders at
an early date to ensure that all Local Boards and Municipali-
ties adjust their budget estimate for the current year and, if
necessary, for ensuing years, in order to meet the proportion
of plague charges debitable to them.
"5. The classification of details will be in accordance with
the distribution shown in the appendix to these proceedings.
APPENDIX*
PLAGUE CHARGES.
Provincial.
3. Land Revenue—Charges of District Administration—
Additions to Collector's office establishment.
(Temporary clerks—Regulation 13.)
Plague Officers (Regulation 26)—
Divisional officers, Assistant Collectors, Personal Assistants to
the Collector.
Special Divisional officers.
Extra Assistants in charge of taluks or smaller areas.
* The regulations referred to in the appendix are those issued in G.O., No. 93 P.,
dated 26th February 1898.
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130.
Assistant Plague Officers—
Tahsildars, Deputy Tahsildars (ordinary or special), ex-officio,
and persons specially appointed.
Cost of stationery, postage, telegraph and other incidental
charges incurred departmentally (Regulation 26).
Cost of printing passports and passes (Regulation 29).
5 and 7. Salt and Excise—
Peons of the Salt and Excise department ordered on plague
duty (Regulation 12).
20. Polici—District Executive Force—
Officers in charge of Frontier Inspection Stations (Regulation 2).
Constables detailed for " Cordon." duty (Regulation 12).
Constables and peons accompanying Tahsildars (Regulation 18).
24. Medical—Medical Establishments—
Additional Commissioned and Non-commissioned Medical
Officers (Regulation 21).
Additions to office staff of District Medical and Sanitary
Officers (temporary clerks)—Regulation 13.
Personal and office tents, with lascars, from the Inspector-
Greneral of Ordnance (Regulation 13).
Hospital staff transferred to plague duty (Regulation 13).
Imperial.
Cordon Staff—Military—
One hundred men of Madras Infantry and all connected
charges (Regulation 11).
Local.
24-D. Medical—Grants for Medical Purposes—
Frontier Inspection Stations (Regulations 3 to 5)—
Pay and travelling allowance of establishments entertained
for Railway and Road Frontier Inspection Stations.
Observation Staff (Regulations '6, 27, and G.O., No. 93 P.,
dated 26th February 1898) —
Plague Supervisors ...
Plagno Inspectors or Sanitary In-
spectors.
Assistant Plague Inspectors
...
Their peons ...
Supervisors of Camps and Gumastahs
Pay.
RS.
150
45
...
Travelling
allowance.
RS.
30
15
...
T.A.
Horse
allowance.
RS.
15
15
...
Total.
RS.
195
75
15-25
15-45
Ambulance Staff (Regulation 9)—
2 European or Eurasian, nurses.
4 Male ward attendants.
3 Female ward attendants.
4 Dhooly-bearers.
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3 Male and 2 female toties.
2 Dhohies.
2 Cooks.
1 Certificated Sanitary Inspector.
2 Hospital Assistants.
1 Compounder.
Supplies and Services, Contingencies—
Cost of stretchers, medical stores, disinfectants and comforts,
hospital furniture and clothing (Regulation 8).
Cost of construction of ohservation plague camps, including
hospitals at Railway Inspection Stations (including sheds
and quarters) and at Road and Frontier Inspection Stations.
Cost of stationery, postage, telegraph and other incidental
charges incurred by the officers in this list.
N.B.—Travelling expenses and all other contingent charges incurred by officers
of Government departments should be debited to the departments con-
cerned. Similar charges incurred by officers specially appointed
should be debited to the heads to which their salaries or allowances
are debited.
Order No. 596 P., dated 20th June 1898.—" Communicated
to all Collectors, Presidents of District Boards, Chairmen
of Municipal Councils and the Surgeon-General for informa-
tion and guidance. The estimates already called for from
Collectors should be revised in accordance with the orders
now issued, and all Local Boards and District Municipalities
should scrutinize their budgets with, a view to provide for
plague expenditure debitable to them." (G.O., No. 596-P.,
dated 20th June 1896.)
MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BOMBAY,
FOR THE
YEAR 1875.
[THE REGIMENTS ARE PLACED A THEY STOOD IN THE ARMY LIST ON THE 1ST JULY 1875.]
Bombay:
PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS.
1876.
SKETCH
O F T H E
MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BOMBAY,
YEAR 1875.
[THE REGIMENTS ARE PLACED AS THEY STOOD 1N THE ARMY LIST ON THE 1ST JULY 1875.]
Bombay:
PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS.
INDEX.
[The regiments arc placed as they stood in the Army List on the 1st July 1875.]
PRESIDENCY DIVISION, ADEN, AND BOMBAY MARINE.
R 6 6
PAGE.
Detachment, 4th Regiment N. I. (Rifles), Bombay
...
...
...
...
...
1
Right Wing, 7th Regiment N. I., T anna ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
20th Regiment N. I., Bombay .
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
21st
do.
do. or Marine Battalion, Bombay
...
...
.... ... ...
6
26th
do.
do. Surat ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
Aden Troop, Khor Mucksar ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
11
No. 5th Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners, Aden ...
...
...
...
...
12
2nd Grenadier Regiment N. I., Aden
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
14
Detachment, 2nd Grenadier Regiment N. I., Perim
...
...
...
...
...
18
POONA DIVISION.
1 s t
R e g i m e n t
L .
C . , P o o n a
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
21
1st Grenadier Regiment N. I ., Poona
...
...
...
...
...
... ...
23
8th Regiment N. I ., Poona ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... ...
2 6
17th
do.
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
30
Sappers and Miners, Kirkee ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
32
Poona Horse, Sirur ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
37
Detachment, Poona Horse, Dhulia ...
...
...
...
...
...
39
19th Regiment N. I., Sholápur
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
41
13th do. do. Ahmednagar... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
45
15th
do.
do. Málegaon
..
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
46
Detachment, 4th Regiment N. I., and Staff and Details ...
...
... ...
...
47
4th Rifles, Satara
,..
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
52
14th Regiment N. I., Kolhápur
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
55
5th
do.
do. Belgaum
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
58
6th
do.
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
60
12th
do.
do. Dharwar
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
61
NORTHERN DIVISION.
3rd Regiment N. L. I., Ahmedabad
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
66
1st Squadron, 1st Lancers, Baroda ...
...
...
...
...
68
9th Regiment N. I., Baroda...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
68
22nd
do.
do.
do. ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
70
2nd Squadron, 2nd Regiment N. L. C., Rájkot
... ...
...
...
...
...
72
1st Company, Native Artillery, Rájkot
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
73
Head-quarter Wing, 7th Regiment N. I., Rájkot... ...
75
28th Regiment N. 1., Rájkot
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
77
Detachment, 28th Regiment N. I., Barda Choki ... ...
...
...
...
...
80
Bhuj
1 1 t h R e g i m e n t , N . I . ,
B h u j . . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
83
2nd
do.
L. C., Deesa
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
87
18th
do.
N. I., do...
.
..
...
...
...
...
...
...
90
16th
do.
do.
Mhow
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
91
25th
do.
N. L. I., do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
94
Wing, 16th and 25th Regiments N. I., Indore
...
...
...
...
...
...
99
3rd (Queen's Own) Regiment N. L. C., Neemuch ...
...
...
...
...
...
100
24th Regiment N. I., Neemuch
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 103
10th
do.
do. Mehidpur
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 105
Right Wing, 10th Regiment N. L. I., Augur. .
.
...
...
...
. . .
. . .
109
Squadron, 3rd Regiment L. C., Nusseerabad...
...
...
...
...
...
111
23rd Regiment N. L. I., Nusseerabad...
...
...
...
111
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(ii)
SIND DIVISION.
P A G E .
29th or 2nd Belooch Regiment N. I., Kurrachee ...
. . . ...
...
...
114
27th or 1st
do.
do.
N. L. I., Hyderabad
...
...
...
...
... 115
1st Sind Horse, Jacobabad ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 118
2nd
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 120
3rd
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 126
30th Regiment N. I., or Jacob's Rifles, Jacobabad
...
...
...
...
... 131
STATISTICAL TABLES.
Statement showing the Sickness and Mortality among the Native Troops in the
Bombay Presidency during the year...
... ...
...
... ... 134
Summary of
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 138
APPENDICES.
Annual General Return exhibiting the Sick of H. M.'s Native Troops in the Bombay
Presidency for the year 1875, compared with 1874 ...
...
...
..
... 139
Return showing the Admissions, Deaths, &c., amongst the Native Troops of the
Bombay Presidency at the several stations for the year 1875, compared with
1874
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 140
Comparative Statement showing the Health of the Native Troops in the four Divi-
sions of the Bombay Presidency
...
...
...
...
...
...
... 143
No. S. B./174.
FROM
THE SURGEON-GENERAL
Indian Medical Department,
T o
THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,
Military Department.
Bombay, 26th May 1876.
SIR,
I have the honour to forward, for submission to His Excellency the Gover-
nor in Council, the Medical History of the Native Army of Bombay for the year
1875.
2. It differs from the history of the preceding year in the omission of
separate divisional reports from the Deputy Surgeons-General. The remarks
and information furnished by these officers will, however, be embodied to a great
extent in my general observations, and will be given partly at the end of each regi-
mental report. I shall now proceed to notice a few of the points which speci-
ally affect each division, reserving for the present the more general information.
PRESIDENCY DIVISION AND ADEN.
Years.
Average
Strength.
Average
Daily Sick. Admissions.
Deaths.
1872
3,297
144.0
4,731
33
1873
3,358
140.2
4,513
28
1874
3,343
133.4
3,861
32
1875
3,288.5
125.4
3,551
36
3. The average daily strength was 3,288.5, or 54.5 less than that of the
preceding year. The average daily sick was 125.4 as compared with 133.4 for
1874, and the admissions were 3,551—a percentage on strength of 107.9. The
deaths were 36, or a percentage to treated of 0.9 as compared with a mortality
of 32, and a percentage to treated of 0.7 for the year before.
Effect of Climate.
4. The rainy season appears to have been less
unfavourable to health than that of 1874.
5. The troops at Aden have been healthier than during the three or four
previous years. Surgeon Peters, in medical charge of
the 2nd Grenadiers, draws attention, in para. 2 of his
report, to the comparatively favourable situation, in a sanitary point of view, of
Khor Mucksar, where the Aden Troop is stationed.
POONA DIVISION.
Years.
Average
Strength.
Average
Daily Sick. Admissions.
Deaths.
1872
8,577
319.7
10,703
51
1873
8,209
250.4
7,334
35
1874
8,197
241.2
6,855
36
1875
8,145.9
224.2
7,607
40
B 66—A
Aden.
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6. The average strength of the army in this division was 8,145.9, which is
slightly less than it was in the previous year. The average daily sick was 224.2,
and the admissions were 7,607—a percentage on strength of 93.2 as compared.
with a percentage of 83.6 for the year before, this increase being attributable to
the greater prevalence of malarious fevers and to the cholera epidemic. The
deaths amounted to 40, or nearly the same percentage on admissions as in 1874.
7. It was especially at Poona that the increase in the number of fever cases
took place, and there can be no doubt that this was due
to the continued wet weather which occurred there in
August last. In the 1st Regt. L. C., owing to the flooding of the camp and to the
insani tary state of the grass-cutters' lines, a very severe type of ague showed itself
at this time, and continued to prevail till the end of the wet season.
8. I beg to draw attention to Dr. O'Kearney's remarks on the sources of the
drinking water at Asirgarh. I trust that before long
energetic measures will be taken to ensure a pure
supply to the troops stationed there.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Years.
Strength.
A v e r a g e . Daily Sick.
Average Admissions. Deaths.
1872
8,054
427.4
15,735
68
1873
8,450
392.9
13,498
52
1874
8,362
376.2
12,426
53
1875
8,547.1
318.2
10,714
105
9. The average strength was 8,547.1—an excess of 185.1 above that of 1874,
The average daily sick was 318.2. The admissions amounted to 10,714—a not-
able decrease on those of the preceding year, but still a percentage on strength of
125.3. The mortality, although in a much smaller number of admissions, was
105, which is double that of the year before, an increase for which cholera is en-
tirely accountable.
Effect of Climate.
Water.
Typhoid Fever.
10. A case of typhoid fever occurred in a sepoy
of the 16th N. I. at Mhow.
SIND DIVISION.
Years.
Average
Strength.
Average
Daily Sick Admissions.
Deaths.
1872
2,975
148.0
5,040
74
1873
2,950
92.7
3,690
50
1874
2,848
84.9
3,459
55
1875
2,837.5
104.9
3,603
32
11. The average daily strength was 2,837.5, nearly the same as in 1874.
The average daily sick was 104.9. The admissions have increased, and were
3,603 as compared with 3,459 of the preceding year—a percentage on strength
of 127.0. The mortality is, however, much smaller, being only 32 for the year
under report, whereas with a less number of sick the deaths were 55 in the
year previous.
12. Both Kurrachee and Hyderabad have, in common with Upper Sind, parti-
cipated in the general insalubrity so marked in this pro-
vince during the past year. This insalubrity must be due,
in great measure, the exceptional conditions of 1874. Certainly at Jacobabad
Climate.
Strength.
Daily Sick.
iii
the increase in the number of cases of malarious fever may with excellent reason be
laid down to the extremely unhealthy conditions resulting from the unusual floods
of that year.
13. Dr. Miller again brings forcibly to notice the insalubrity of this station,
and remarks on the wretched physical state of the
troops quartered there.
Jacobabad.
Epidemics.
14. There has not been a single case of epidemic
disease.
15. At Jacobabad 118 cases of Sind boil occurred as compared with 81
for the preceding year. Drs. Miller, Bartholomeusz,
and MacRury are of opinion that this disease is merely
a visible indication of a peculiar state of constitution found in the residents
of Upper Sind; and this, they think, is induced by exposure to the depressing
effects of high temperature, in a hypersaturated atmosphere, of persons suffering
from malarious cachexia.
Sind Boil.
Water.
16. At Kurrachee an unusual rainfall, in Novem
-ber, of 2·5 inches was of essential service in filling the
tanks and wells.
17. From the figures below it will be seen that the total strength of the army
was but 69 more than that of last year. The average
daily sick, in spite of the increase recorded amongst
the Sind troops, was, on nearly the same strength, no
less than 144·6 below the average of the preceding
three years. The percentage of daily sick to strength shows a coresponding
decrease, and the total admissions are less than those of last year by 1,126, or
5,140 under the average of the previous three years.
A glance at the table will show that, while the strength
has remained almost stationary, there has been a notable and progressive annual
diminution in the number of admissions and daily sick. This seems to show
satisfactorily that the measures taken to preserve the health of the army have,
except in some of those notoriously insalubrious stations, borne year by year more
valuable fruit:—
Years.
Average
Strength.
Average
Daily Sick.
Aver age Dai l y Si ck per Cent . t o Aver age St r engt h.
Admissions.
Deaths.
1872
22,903
1,040·0
4·54
36,209
226
1873
22,967
876·2
3·82
29,035
165
1874
22,750
835·7
3·66
26,601
176
1875
22,819
772·7
3·38
25,475
213
18. The total number of deaths, during the year under report, amounted
to 279 as compared with 248 for 1874; of these 213
occurred in hospital and 66 out of hospital and on
leave, the corresponding numbers for the year before being 176 and 72. In hos-
pital there is an increase of 37 deaths over those of 1874 and of 24 above the
average of the preceding three years. This greater mortality, although with a
less number of admissions, is almost entirely attributable to the epidemic of cho
-lera which prevailed amongst the troops of the Poona and Northern divisions.
Admissions.
Mortality.
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43. Dr. Wyllie commends Dr. McDougall's report, and Dr. Maitland
that of Dr. Sexton. The reports, in general, have
been prepared with care, and show that the medical
officers perform their duties with efficiency and zeal. They have given much time
and consideration to sanitary matters, both as regards their regiments and the
circumstances of the localities in which they are stationed. The Deputy Surgeons
-
General of divisions are almost unanimous in their expressions of satisfaction with
the work of the medical officers, and it affords me much pleasure in unreservedly
endorsing the same. I conclude by bringing to the notice of Government my
entire satisfaction with the manner in which the Deputy Surgeons-General them
-
selves have conducted their duties. In the case of three of these officers their
tenure of office will shortly expire; and I cannot allow them to depart from India
without placing on record my opinion that, during the time I have been Surgeon
-
General, they have zealously performed their duty to the State, and not this alone,
but throughout the whole of their service they have never failed to prove them
-
selves good and efficient officers.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
W.THOM,
Surgeon-General.
Commendations.