Lines, bar
-racks and
huts, &c.
Exercise and
amusements.
Marches.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality and invaliding.
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Hospital.
river, and this is necessarily subject to the usual defilements of any stream
running near a cantonment. The hospital was in good repair, and all ar
-rangements for the proper medical and surgical care of the men were com
-plete. Mr. Ross inspected the men on parade, and observed that there were
fewer old men present in the ranks than there were last year; the recruits
were promising and of a good stamp.
Medical
Officers.
Location.
Topography
and physical
geography.
Meteorology.
Bhopal Battalion—Sehore.
I . — M e d i c a l O f f i c e r s
.—Surgeon-Major W. Allen, F. R. C. S., was in medical
charge throughout the year,
and has supplied the annual
sanitary report. Surgeon
-Major Beaumont was in
charge of the detachment at
Indore.
II. Location.— The
head
- q u a r t e r s a r e p e r m a n e n t l y s t a t i o n e d
at Sehore.
A detachment of the average
strength of 554 men has through-
out the year been furnished to
the Governor General's Agent
for Central India at Indore ; this
detachment has been relieved every three months. An escort averaging 68 men accompanied
the Agent Governor General on his tour during the first two months of the year, and another
of 47 men for a few days in December, but did not give any sick. A detachment of 213 men
was sent as an escort to the Governor General on his visit to Indore early in November; other
smaller escorts accompanied the camps of the Political Agent in Bhopal and the Boundary
Sottlement Officer, but did not furnish any sick.
III.—Topography and physical geography.— These have been described by me in my report
for the year 1872 and 1873.
IV.—Meteorology.— The following table shows with approximate correctness the mean
temperature of each month of the year, accompanied with the mean of the five previous years ;
the total rain-fall is also contrasted with the mean of the same period :—
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH.
Admission. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . .
Sehore . . .
146.2
1.7
3.6
1871 . . .
Ditto . . .
117.9
1.19
3.27
1872 . . .
Ditto . . .
132.6
2.08
3.8
1873 . . .
Ditto . . .
62.7
2.43
1.88
1874 . . .
Ditto . . .
60.1
.43
1.44
Average . . .
103.90
1.76
2.80
1875 . . .
Sehore . . .
61.02
1.90
1.30
Rains.
Year.
J a n u a r y .
F e b r u a r y .
M a r c h .
A p r i l .
M a y .
J u n e .
J u l y .
A u g u s t .
S e p t e m b e r .
O c t o b e r .
N o v e m b e r .
D e c e m b e r . Rain-fall in
inches.
Mean of five pre-
vious years . . .
56
61
71
86
89
83
76
76
76
73
65
60
57.4
1875 . . .
59
65
77
86
88
87
77
76
77
72
64
68
56.2
The rains set in early in June and were continuous till the end of September, when, after
the interval of nearly a month, there was an unusual fall of 1.3 inches, after which there was
a sudden and marked increase of malarious fever. The cold season was delayed by the cloudy
weather which occured in October and the first-half of November, but during December the
cold was unusually great, and several cases of pneumonia of low type have been treated as the
usual consequence.
V.—Lines, barracks and huts, &c.— There is nothing worthy of special
remark as regards the lines, drainage, conservancy, water-supply, diet, cloth
-ing or duties of the men.
XII. Exercise and amusements.— No change; all recruits are pút through a gymnastic
course under special instruction : a practice which is well calculated to develop the m
uscles.
XIII. Marches— Have been chiefly entailed by relieving the Indore detachment every
three months.
XIV. Hospital— Has been fully described in previous reports. During the year, it has
been repaired and twice whitewashed.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the battalion :—
Presen
.
.
.
799.7
Absent . . .
134.9
Total . . .
934.6