ALLAHABAD DIVISION.
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Topography,
&c.
Duty and
employment.
Detachments of 2nd and 18th Regiments Bengal Cavalry, Benares
. — D r . J . P . W a l k e r , D e p u t y S u r g e o n - G e n e r a l o f t h e A l l a h a b a d C i r c l e , i n s p e c t e d
the detachments of the 2nd and 18th Regiments of Bengal Cavalry on the
3rd January 1876. The detachments Were under canvas, and were reported
on as being in a very satisfactory condition in every way. On ordinary occasions
the cavalry detachment at Benares is of a strength of from 10 to 16 men, but
On the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, there
were 127 men of the 2nd Bengal Cavalry and 30 men of the 18th Bengal
Cavalry on duty there. These detachments were under the charge of Sur
-geon-Major Verchere, 13th Regiment Bengal Infantry, during the year under
review, and there was but one case of sickness from amongst them which
was treated in the hospital of the 13th Bengal Infantry.
European Invalid Battalion at Chunar .—The Deputy Surgeon-General of
the Allahabad Circle made his inspection of the European invalid battalion at
Chunar on the 31st January 1876. During the floods of 1875, the water
reached above the floor level in every house in the lower lines, and the main
barrack was about two feet under water for some days. The inmates of the
uninhabitable quarters were accommodated in the Fort from the 3rd of August
to the 6th of September.
Detachments
of 2nd and
18th Regi
-ments, Bengal
Cavalry,
Benares.
Medical
charge.
European
Invalid Batta
-lion at Chunar.
The composition of the European invalid battalion and garrison staff
on the day of inspection was as follows, viz., 3 commissioned officers, 1 maga
-zine sergeant, 1 head warder of state prison, 1 commissariat sergeant, 1 assist
-ant warder, and 16 non-commissioned officers of the invalid battalion;
a d e t a c h m e n t o f t h e 1 s t b a t t a l i o n , 5 t h F u s i l i e r s c o n s i s t i n g o f t w o o f f i c e r s a n d 7 7
non-commissioned officers and men, was on duty at Chunar, and the sick from
it were treated in the hospital with those of the invalid battalion. The hospital
affords ample accommodation for the sick, and was, as was also everything
connected with it, in a very satisfactory condition. The daily average strength
of the invalid battalion during the year 1875 was 21, with an average daily
number of. sick of 48, and a death rate of 5.7 per cent. of mean strength.
Hospital.
1st Regiment Bengal Cavalry—Cawnpore.
I. Medical Officers who have held charge.—The following medical officers
have held charge of the
regiment during the year
—Surgeon E. Battersby,
M.B., from 1st January
to 22nd February. Surgeon
A. Deane, 35th Native In
-fantry, held it as an addi
-tional charge from 22nd
February to 19th June.
Surgeon E. Mair, M.B.,
from 19th June to 8th
December. Surgeon-Major
E. McKellar, M.D., from
8th December to the end of
the year. The last-named officer has supplied the annual sanitary report.
II. Location and movements of the regiment .—The entire regiment remained at Cawnpore
from 1st January to 19th November, on which latter date it commenced its march, in course
of the annual relief, towards Sialkot, and by 31st December was at Camp Ughana, two marches
above Umballa.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . .
Morar, December 1867 . . .
156.8
.8
5.4
1 8 7 1 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
152
. 8
5.1
1872 . . .
Cawnpore, February 1872
125.2
1.7
4.5
1 8 7 3 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
81.4
1.7
3.8
1874 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
83.7
. 8
2.8
Average . . .
119.8
1.2
4.3
1875 . . .
C a w n p o r e . . .
51.70
.27
.87
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements
of the regi
- m e n t .
III. Topography, &c. — T h e r e
a p p e a r s t o b e n o t h i n g n e w t o r e p o r t u n d e r t h i s h e a d . I
beg to refer to my report for the year 1873, in which a full description of the station of Cawn
-pore is given.
XI. Duty and employment.—Duty has not been in any way excessive; number of nights
in bed 12.41.
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