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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Inspection.
He was taken into hospital there, where he remained about three weeks, and eventually they
sent him on here. When he arrived, about one month after the receipt of the injury, his leg
was in a dreadful state, the knee-joint being full of pus. Amputation was performed at
middle third of thigh on 9th June; the stump did well at first, but about three weeks after
the operation, the bone became diseased, and sinases formed in every direction. A second
operation was performed on 26th July, and the femur removed from just below the trochanters.
The man remained in a very critical state for many days, as deep and extensive sloughing
occurred in the stump, but he eventually made a good recovery.
Inspection .—Inspected by Dr. Thorpe, Deputy Surgeon-General of the Agra
Circle, onthe 14th December 1875. He reports favorably of the site of the
lines, and of their general condition. The huts are not overcrowded, the water
supply is of excellent quality, the drainage is described as sufficient. The latrines
are used by the men generally, and the night soil is removed from them in iron
receptacles and buried beyond the infantry parade, where the ground is after
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wards placed under cultivation.
The hospital is described as being well ventilated, clean, and in good order.
Meywar Bheel Eorps—Khairwarah.
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Topography.
Meteorology.
Temperature.
Mean daily
range.
Mean annual
emperature.
Medical Officers.—Surgeon-Major L. F. Dickson, M.D., has held officiating
medical charge of the re
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giment throughout the
year. At Kotra Outpost,
1st class Hospital Assistant
Sewtuhal, has held medical
charge throughout the year.
At Oodeypore, Dr. K.
Burr, uncovenanted service,
has held medical charge
of the detachment during
the year. Surgeon-Major
L. Dickson, M.D., has
furnished the sanitary re
- p o r t o f t h e R e g i m e n t f o r 1 8 7 5 .
II. Location and movements.—The head-quarters, with an average annual strength of
271.17, was located from 1st January to 31st October at Khairwarah, remaining there until
ordered to Oodeypore as guard of honour to the Viceroy, on 1st November. It left
Oodeypore on 27th November, and arrived in Khairwarah on 29th, remaining there until
close of the year. There was (as usual) a strong detachment, average annual strength 120.91,
at Kotra, during the whole year. During the year (except from 1st to 26th November, when
it was included in the head-quarters then at Oodeypore), the usual detachment was present
at Oodeypore; average annual strength 55.02. From 1st to 29th November, the period
that the head-quarters was absent from Khairwarah, there was a detachment at that place of the
average annual strength of 10.62. These four together make up a total present strength
of 457.72, from which strength the statistics of my return are taken.
Besides these, there has been a detachment all the year at Banswarra, average strength
21.71; also a detachment at the same place on boundary duty from 8th January to 14th
April, and 16th April, strength 178, which returned on the two latter dates in separate in
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stalments of 103 and 75, respectively.
There was also a detachment on special duty to Bagore, in Meywar, of 2 officers and
224 men from 3rd September, returning in instalments of 135 and 89 on 15th and 19th
October, respectively. These detachments go to swell the total absent for the year, of
248.33; and having no medical officer with them to make out returns, their sick do not
appear in mine.
III. Topography.—This was very fully entered into in my report for 1874.
IV. Meteorology.—The barometer shows considerable equability, the highest figure
for the year being 29° 5', and the lowest 28° 8'.
The lowest recorded temperature (in January) was 42°, and the highest (in May and June)
was 104.° The coldest months were January and December, the approximate mean for
those months being 66°2', and 62°7', respectively. April, May and June were the hottest
months, having an approximate mean of 90°2', 92°0', and 90°6', respectively.
The mean daily range has been greatest in January and March, 25° and 24,° respectively;
and least in July and August, in both of which months it was but 9°.
Mean annual temperature.—The mean annual temperature was 78° dry bulb and 71° wet
bulb.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . .
Khairwarah . . .
150.9
.77
4.17
1871 . . .
Ditto . . .
129.4
1.42
4.09
1872 . . .
Ditto . . .
148.9
1.2
4.02
1873 . . .
Di tto . . .
152.9
1.13
5. 11
1874 . . .
Ditto . . .
92.2
1.55
4.13
Average . . .
134.86
1.21
4.36
1875 . . .
Khairwarah . . .
87.61
.99
2.25