Station Staff
Hospital—
Dum-Dum.
Station Staff
Hospital—
Barrackpore.
ALLAHABAD
DIVISION.
17
It appears that the average number of prostitutes borne on the register
during the year was 34.33, and the daily average number of them under treat
-ment in hospital was 2.26. The area over which the provisions of the C. D. Act
are enforced is 24 miles. Examinations are held on the 15th and last days of
the month, at the hospital, by the officer in medical charge. There appears to
have been an increase in the number of venereal cases amongst the European
soldiers during 1876, but it was due, Mr. Cockburn considers, to the amount
of clandestine prostitution which was practised by unregistered women living
in and about cantonments.
Mr. Cockburn made his inspection of this hospital on the 30th of January.
Surgeon B. Connolly was in charge. The principal inmates of this hospital are,
it is reported, the lascars of the Gun-cap and Cartridge Factories ; and their
average strength during the year was 1,346.
Surgeon Bourke, Royal Artillery, was in charge during the greater part
of the year. Deputy Surgeon-General R. Cockburn inspected this institution
on the 20th of January 1877. The building is described as being in fair repair
and capable of accommodating 8 patients. The syces and grass-cutters of the
Royal Artillery were the principal patients treated. 1st Class Hospital Assistant
Shaikh Ameer Udin had charge of this hospital and of the charitable dispensary,
which is close alongside.
Inspected by the Deputy Surgeon-General of the Presidency Circle on the
19th of January 1877.
Surgeon Corbett, A.M.D., was in medical charge during 1876. Mr. Cock
-burn considers that the building is not well suited for the purposes of a lock
hospital, but it nevertheless was in good repair, and a bath-room had been added
since last inspection. The daily average number of prostitutes under treatment
in hospital is stated to have been 4.94, and the average number borne on the roll
was 56.81. The Act is in force over an area of 5 miles round cantonments on the
Barrackpore side, and 2 miles on the Serampore side of the river. The admissions
into hospital for venereal diseases from the European troops at Barrackpore
during 1876 were 10.1 per cent. of strength, a rate which was not so favor
-able as that registered in 1875, when it was 6.11. However, the result may be
considered satisfactory, as in 1868-69-70 the admission-rates were 31.5, 23.5,
and 22.1 per cent. of strength of the European garrison.
Lock Hospital
—Barrack-
pore.
ALLAHABAD DIVISION :
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF ALLAHABAD, DINAPORE, SEGOWLIE, BENARES, CHUNAR, AND
CAWN PORE).
Average daily strength present during the year .
.
. Cabalry 1173.3 ; Infantry
. 2535.0
„ sick per cent. of average strength
. . .
„
2.35,
„
.
2.69
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength.
.
.
„
1.09,
„
.
1.64
18th Regiment Bengal Cavalry—Allahabad.
I. Medical Officers. —The undermentioned Medical Officers have held Medical Of
fi-cers.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
. Meean Meer, Nov.1870
.
209.04
2.02
3.12
1872
.
Ditto
ditto
.
132.9
.88
2.9
1873
. Allahabad, March 1873
.
133.1
.68
4.75
1874
.
Ditto
ditto
.
152.51
.44
5.52
1875
.
Ditto
.
.
.
85.13
.22
3.03
Average
.
.
142.
.84
3.86
1876
. Allahabad
.
.
.
54.42
.21
1.45
charge of the regiment dur
-ing the year :—
Surgeon D. P. Palmer,
from 1st January to 4th
September. Surgeon-Major
W. Ashton, A.M.D., from
5th to 29th September.
Surgeon-Major Raddock,
from 30th September to 18th
October. Surgeon G. Griffith,
from 19th October to 31st
December 1876. The last-
named Officer furnishes the
report.
II.
Location
and
move
-ments.—The head-quarters of the regiment was stationed at Allahabad from the
Location and
movements.