Drainage.
Conservancy.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Lock-hospital,
Ferozepore.
native infantry regiment, and affording accommodation for 50 patients, will
soon be built.
Mr. Tresidder inspected this hospital on the 22nd December 1875. The
average strength of the Ordnance Department has been 900, and the daily
average number of sick in hospital during the previous year was 16.10. The
hospital equipment was incomplete.
Lock-Hospital, Ferozepore .—Inspected by Deputy Surgeon-General J. N.
Tresidder on the 22nd December 1875. Since the old hospital was destroyed
by fire in April 1874, other premises have been used, and recently the Canton
-ment Committee have purchased a bungalow near the bazar, which is well suited
in all respects for a lock-hospital.
On the day of inspection there were 84 prostitutes on the register, viz., 60
from cantonments and 24 from the city, and from this number there was but
one patient in hospital; the average strength on the register for the preceding
twelve months was 95, and the average number of daily sick was 2.27. The
admissions of the prostitutes into hospital were for the following diseases,
viz., primary syphilis, 39; secondary syphilis, 1; and 12 for gonorrhœa. The
strength of the European garrison during the past 12 months was 1,020,
and from it 68 men were admitted on account of primary syphilis, 13 with
secondary syphilis, and 70 suffering from gonorrhœa.
The hospital furniture and all the necessary appliances in it were satisfac
-tory. The ablution rooms were clean and in good order.
lst Eoorkha Regiment—
Dharmsala.
Medical
officers.
Location and
movements.
Topography.
Meteorology.
Lines and
huts.
Surgeon-Major C. F. Oldham has submitted the annual report, and writes
as follows:—
Medical Offcers.— This
report has been delayed owing
to the absence of the regiment
on service in the Malay Penin
- s u l a . S u r g e o n - M a j o r C . F .
Oldham held charge through
-out the year. Surgeon G.
Bomford was attached from
25th November to 31st De-
cember.
II. Location and move
-ments.— The regiment was
quartered at Dharmsala unti
l 3 0 t h O c t o b e r , w h e n i t m a r c h e d
to join the Camp of Exercise at Delhi; but from Umballa it was sent by rail to Calcutta,
and on the 26th November embarked for the Malay Peninsula. On 10th December the regi
-ment landed in Sungie Yujong, a Native State adjoining Malacca, where it was engaged on
active service until the end of the year. There were small detachments at Malacca and
Larut. A depôt of 100 men was left at Dharmsala with all the women and children; and
the usual detachment of 48 men was stationed in Fort Kangra throughout the year. In July
a portion of the regiment was encamped at Chaitroo, some three miles from cantonments, in
consequence of an outbreak of cholera.
III. Topography .—The topography of the station has been fully described in annual
reports for 1873-74, and a description of the places occupied in the Malay Peninsula has been
given in my special report upon the expedition dated 1st May 1876.
IV. Meteorology.—The climate of the year did not present any unusual feature. During
the cholera outbreak the rain was very heavy, but in July this is to be expected.
V. Lines and huts .—The state of the lines and huts remains much the same as at the
time of last report, except that four new hut-barracks have been built; three of these are
good, but the fourth, built on a cheaper plan, is very far from being perfect. It has a slate
roof, without a ceiling, and has no doors, so that it is hot in summer and very cold and
draughty in winter. Moreover, it has no verandah, which, in so rainy a climate as this, is a
very great defect.
VI. Drainage .—The natural drainage is very good. The "lines," being situated between
two deep ravines, water runs off immediately.
VII. Conservancy .—Latrines on the "dry earth" system are provided for the sepoys and
their families, those for women being separate; and apart from these, others have been built
for the bazaar people. All are clean and in good order. Store-houses for dry earth have been
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . . D h a r m s a l a . . .
98.7
.8
2.4
1871 . . .
Ditto . . .
125.
1.6
3.6
1872 . . .
Ditto . . .
114.7
2.1
4.2
1873 . . .
Ditto . . .
117.2
2.2
4.3
1874 . . .
Ditto . . .
104.5
.6
3.7
. . .
Average . . .
112.02
1.46
3.84
1875 . . . Dharmsala . . .
147.32
4.57
4.49