Recommend
-ations made
during the
year.
Special
observations
and remarks.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Inspection.
of the resulting vesicles and scars, I am enabled to state that the operation has been successfully
performed in all these cases. No sepoys or recruits have required vaccination. I consider the
regiment to be well protected from small-pox.
XX. Recommendations made during the year .—Deputy Surgeon-General Ross at his last
inspection, and I believe also at the inspection of last year, recommended that a "public
latrine" should be erected in the neighbourhood of the lines for the use of the men and
followers; the subject is, I believe, still under the consideration of the proper authorities.
XXI. Special observations and remarks.— This is the second year that the right wing,
20th Madras Native Infantry, has been stationed at Nowgong, Bundelkhund. During the first
year, being unaccustomed to so cold a climate, they suffered severely from fevers and rheuma-
tism. The men have now, however, become somewhat acclimatised, as is shewn by the marked
diminution in the number of fever cases as compared with last year. The climate of Now
-gong is considered a healthy one, and when the men are better acclimatized, and have
provided themselves with warmer private clothing for the colder months, I believe the cold
will exercise a beneficial bracing effect. With regard to the large percentage of shoebites and
footsoreness that have occurred during the year, I do not believe that this curse of the Native
Army will ever be materially diminished until Government either permits the sepoy to wear
sandals, or supplies him with good socks and properly-fitting boots.
Inspected by the Deputy Sureon-General of the Jubbulpore Circle on the
15th November 1875. He reports that the lines were airy and spacious; the
drainage, artificial and natural, was good.
All the men use their private latrines in their hut enclosures, and this
system is about as objectionable as well can be i magined. The hospital had been
altered since the last inspection. All the hospital details for the comfort and
proper treatment of the sick were in a satisfactory condition.
RAJPOOTANA.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF DEOLEE AND ERINPOORAH.)
Average strength present during the year . . .Cavalry 374; Infantry 1399.9
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength " 5.11 "
3.56
Rates of mortality per cent. of average strength " 1.79 "
.86
9th Re giment Bengal Eabalry—Deolee.
Medical
Officers.
I. Medical Officers.—The
medical charge of the head
-quarters of the 9th Bengal
Cavalry was held by Surgeon
-Major R. Mantell, from the
1st January to the 15th
April, and from the 16th
October to the 31st Decem
-ber 1875, and in the inter
-vening period, viz., from
16th April to 15th October,
by Surgeon Macdonald.
A squadron at Jhansi was
in medical charge of Surgeons
Linton and Macgregor, from 1st January to 12th February; Surgeon Hall from 13th February
to 30th July, and Surgeon Wright from 31st July to the end of the year. A detachment at
Sambhur was in medical charge of hospital assistant Syeednoor Khan from 1st January
to 18th December, and a detachment, which marched to Oodeypore, was in charge of 4th
class native doctor Ameer Buksh of the Mairwarrah Battalion.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 Rawalpindi, November
1870 . . .
99.7
1
5.1
1871
Ditto ditto . . .
80.1
2.4
4
1872
Ditto ditto . . .
65.9
1.1
4
1873
Ditto ditto . . .
81.9
.6
2.5
1874 Deolee, January 1874 . . .
126.1
.2
5.2
Average . . .
90.74
1.06
4.16
1875 Deolee . . .
1 0 3 . 7 4
1 . 7 1
5 . 1 0
Surgeon-Major R. Mantell has submitted the sanitary report for 1875.
Location and
movements of
the regiment.
II. Location and movements of the regiment.—The head-quarters of the regiment
remained at Deolee during the whole year: and the Jhansi detachment was not relieved.
The detachment at Sambhur was absent from the 1st January to the 18th December, when it
returned to head-quarters, being relieved once only during the year. The Oodeypore detach
-ment marched on the 26th October and returned on the 10th December.