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Leprosy.
Inspection.
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
treatment as practised by Dr. Dougall. Ram Chunder Khundka, Naik, H Company, 3rd
Goorkhas, was admitted into hospital on the 25th March. He complained of numbness and
impaired sensation of the fingers and toes, also of the skin covering the prominences of the
cheek bones, and lobes of the ears, which were also indurated and thickened. The color of the
skin all over the body is peculiar : it is of a purple hue, and has a coarse, wrinkled, glassy
appearance, especially where exposed to the air. He commenced the treatment at about the
end of March last. The gurjun oil and lime-water, in the proportion of 1 to 3, was rubbed over
the whole body in the morning, and a dose of 1 drachm gurjun oil to 1 drachm of castor oil was
taken internally. In the evening the same dose was administered internally, while a bath of
soap and water was taken. This treatment was continued pretty steadily for nearly 4 months,
at the end of which time not only had sensation been completely restored, but the induration
of the skin covering the cheek bones and lobes of the ears had almost disappeared. In order
to give the patient the full benefit of' all advantages in favour of permanent cure after this
course of treatment, I recommended him change of air, and sent him to his home in Nepaul,
and upon his return his former symptoms have in no way returned ; it is to be hoped the
cure is a permanent one. This case shall be watched and reported upon again, as, should the
cure remain permanent, it cannot but be one of the deepest interest to the profession, as con
-firming the value of Dr. Dougall's treatment of leprosy when employed in the early stage of
that disease.
Inspected by the Deputy Surgeon-General of the Lucknow Circle on the
16th October 1875. The lines were clean and barracks were well-ventilated.
All the details in hospital for the proper care and treatment of the sick were in
excellent order, carefully attended to, and reflected great credit on Dr. Govan's
management and arrangements.
SIRHIND DIVISION.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF UMBALLA AND JULLUNDUR.)
Average daily strength present during the year . . .
Cavalry 383 Infantry 1,250.33
Ditto sick per cent. of average strength . . . " 3.08 "
4.34
Ratio of mortality ditto ditto . . .
.
2 1 "
1.34
15th Regiment Bengal (Cureton's Mooltance) Cabalrg—Amballa.
Medical Offi
-cers in charge.
Location and
movements.
Topography,
&c.
I. Medical Officers.—Surgeon -Major W. P. Adley from 1st January to 17th May; Sur
-
geon Moynan 18th May to 14th
July ; Surgeon-Major Adley 15th
to 21st July ; Surgeon Moynan
22nd to 30th July ; Surgeon-Major
Raddock 31st July to 10th Aug
- u s t ; S u r g e o n Y e l d 1 1 t h A u g u s t
to 4th November ; Surgeon-Major
Adley 5th to 29th November;
Surgeon-Major Barnard 4th to
10th December, and Surgeon Edis
11th to 31st December. Medi
-cal officer in charge of de
-tachment at Jullundur, Surgeon
Grant 1st January to 29th Octo-
-ber.
Surgeon-Major Adley sub
-mitted the Annual Sanitary Report of the regiment.
II. Location and movements.—Head-quarters remained at Umballa from 1st January to
20th November, when it proceeded on its march to the Delhi Camp of Exercise, arriving there
On the 2nd December. It joined in the first instance the cavalry division in the old cantonments,
and subsequently the third division at Bussai and Budlee-ka-serai. A detachment of the regi-
ment was posted at Jullundur (63 men) from 1st January to 29th October, at which date it
was relieved to enable it to rejoin the regiment on its march to Delhi. A detachment of 59
men remained at Umballa from 20th November to 13th December, and 79 men at Cawnpore
from 14th to 31st December.
III. Topography, &c.— No special remarks are necessary regarding the
topography, meteorology, &c., of Umballa, as they have been described in
previous reports.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870
. . . Peshawar, November
1869, from Mooltau.
194.9
1.7
3.9
1871
. . .
Ditto ditto
. . .
110.5
1.5
3.7
1872
. . .
Ditto ditto . . .
152.8
2.3
3.8
1873
. . . Umballa, February 1873
58.9
1.7
1.9
1874. . .
Ditto . . .
16.3
.21
2.5
Average
. . .
118.68
1.48
3.16
1875 . . . Umballa . . .
86.94
.22
3.08