Drainage.
Conservancy
and latrines.
Water-supply.
Diet.
Clothing.
Duty and
employment.
Marches and
service.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
OUDH DIVISION. 79
V. Lines, barracks and huts. —Huts, 11 feet high and 11 feet broad, 12 feet long, suffi-
ciently well ventilated, as huts by eaves and doorways. There is about 1,400 cubic feet of air,
and 3 men to each hut. The Native officers have each a house to themselves. The breadth
between each row of huts is about 100 feet. The whole area of the lines is about 140 yards by
300. There is a very objectionable kutcha tank between the two wings, formed by digging
clay to build the huts and spoiling the centre street. Buildings require clay, and to save first
expense, it is dug at the nearest place to the site of the buildings.
VI. Drainage.—On the east there is a deep station drain into which all the drainage of
the lines runs, except that which runs into the tank, and so the lines are pretty fairly well
drained.
VII. Conservancy and latrines. —There are no latrines except the hospital ones, and they
are treated on the dry-earth system. The contents of the pans are buried by the mehter in 10-
inch trenches. The men in the lines and bazaar go themselves to the trenches, which are daily
renewed, and are provided with movable seats on wheels, and screens over them.
VIII. Water-supply —From three pucca wells, about 35 feet to the surface of the water,
which is ample and good.
IX. Diet.—The men diet themselves, at their own pleasure, from the bazar, and are
well nourished. They eat a very fair mixed diet of animal and vegetable food.
X. Clothing.—Woollen serge, thick woollen great-coats, jack boots, well adapted to
climate.
XI. Duty and employment.—Ordinary cavalry duties—parades, drills, foot and horse
escorts, orderly duties—mounted and on foot, &c., averaging 5 to 6 nights in bed.
XIII. Marches and service. —The regiment marched from Delhi in February last by
regular marches. No service.
XIV. Hospital.—The hospital is a very excellent one, very well built, of pucca brick, two
wards 60 feet long and broad and high in proportion; four private wards, two godowns, dis-
pensary and office room and out-buildings, all very complete.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—
Present .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 374
Absent .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 81
Total
.
. 455
Lines, bar-
racks and
huts.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
O F
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
P E R ANNUM.
From
To
Admis- sions. Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Head quarters at camp of
exercise, Delhi, and at Si-
tapur
.
. 1st Jan.
. 31st Dec.
. 284.83 293
2
9.54 102.86 0.70 3.34
Detachment, Fyzabad
. 3rd Mar.
. 31st Dec.
. 89.30
95 ...
2.39 128.07 ...
2.67
TOTAL
.
. . .
. . .
374.13 388
2
11.93 103.71 .53 3.19
Number of deaths in hospital 2; out of hospital 1; total
3; per cent of total strength .
0.65
„
invalided
.
.
.
. .
.
.
.
7;
„
„
.
1.53
„
sent on sick leave .
.
.
.
.
.
.
18;
„
„
.
3.94
„
of days spent in hospital, 4,370; per admission
. 11.26; per man of total strength .
9.60
„
„ on sick leave 2,185; per man
. 121.38;
„
„
.
4 . 8 0
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
1 4 . 4 0
Inspection. —Deputy Surgeon-General H. M. Cannon, M. B., made his
inspection of the hospital and lines of this regiment on the 6th February 1877.
He reports that the lines are well drained and afford ample accommodation
for the men. The hospital is built on the standard plan, and was in excellent
order. All the offices and servants' houses were complete. The dry-earth
system of conservancy was carried out. All the recruits were inspected, and
Mr. Cannon reports that they were well-built young men, and up to the standard
in measurement.
Sitapur Lock Hospital. —There have been three Medical Officers in charge
during 1876,—viz., Surgeon Martin from 1st January to October; Surgeon-Major
Barnard from October till the 10th of November, and Surgeon Carter from that
date till the 31st December. On the last day of December 1875 there were 95
prostitutes on the rolls, 46 were added during the year, making a total of 141.
Out of this number 37 died, absconded, &c., and 104 remained on the 31st
Inspection.
Sitapur Lock
Hospital.
Statistics.