Vaccination.
Remarks.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Cholera.
XIX. Vaccination.—Seven children of the camp-followers were successfully vaccinated.
The recruits have all suffered from small-pox.
XXI. Remarks. —Forty-seven recruits have been entertained during the past year with an
average chest measurement of 35 inches : recruiting in the regiment has been during the
past two or three years most carefully carried on, and nearly all the old (1857) men have, under
the present easy process of invaliding, been eliminated. The class-troop system on which the
regiment has been re-organized is well-worked and adhered to, and will, in the course of
another year or so, be complete.
Cholera among the Native Troops during the past six years. —As a matter of some local
interest, I submit the following form which exhibits the number of cases of cholera which
have occurred in the Lucknow garrison among the Native troops during the past six years,
the regiments in which they have occurred, and the places in which the disease has apparently
originated.
YEAR.
Month of first
case.
Month of last
case.
Fatal cases. Total. Cases in Ca-
valry Lines.
Cases in In-
fantry Lines.
Cases at Fort
Muchee Bawun.
1871 October .
. October .
.
. . .
1
1
...
. . .
1872 August
.
. September .
.
3
3
2
. . .
1
1873 October .
. October .
.
3
4
. . .
1
3
1874
...
. . .
. . .
...
...
. . .
...
1875 February .
. September .
.
5
12
...
5
7
1876 May .
.
. June .
. .
3
3
...
1
2
14
23
3
7
13
Inspection.
During this period, there has been no epidemic among the Native troops, nor is there any
record of any having occurred among the Native population of the garrison. History seems to
point to the Roomi Durwaza, Fort Muchee Bawun, or its vicinity, as originating or fostering
the cholera poison more than elsewhere. In 1872, one out of the three cases occurred there ;
in 1873, three out of the four cases ; in 1875, seven out of the twelve; and in 1876, two out
of the three. These facts show how free, in the garrison itself, the Native troops have been
from cholera during the past six years ; and they direct attention to the Roomi Durwaza quarter
of the Fort as harbouring some means of causation of the disease.
Inspection. —Inspected on the 26th December 1876 by Deputy Surgeon-
General H. M. Cannon, M.B., of the Lucknow Circle. He reports as the
result of his inspection that the lines were clean and well drained. The dry-
earth system of conservancy was thoroughly carried out. The regimental
hospital was in excellent repair, and was complete in every detail for the com-
fortable accommodation and proper treatment of the sick. Government quar-
ters for the Native medical staff of the hospital have not yet been built.
Mr. Cannon inspected 50 recruits (every one of whom bore marks of small-
pox), and he considered them all to be well up to the standard.
6th Regiment Native Light Infantry—Lucknow.
I. Medical Officers. —Surgeon-Major S. C. Amesbury was in medical
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
YEAR .
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
. Morar, January 1870 .
303.1
.8
7.9
1872
. Ditto ditto
.
173.4
1.02
4.9
1873
. Ditto ditto
.
136.2
.74
3.8
1874
. Lucknow, Nov. 1873 .
80.16
2.34
2.82
1875
. Ditto ditto
.
110.57
1.05
3.27
Average
.
161.68
5.19
4.53
1876 . Lucknow
.
96.95
1.01
3.17
charge of this regiment
throughout the year, with
the exception of the month
of December, when he was
on special duty at the Im-
perial Assemblage, Delhi.
Surgeon G. P. Mackenzie
was in charge of the regi-
ment during the month of
December. The former offi-
cer has submitted this re-
port.
II. Location and movements.
— T h e h e a d - q u a r t e r s o f t h e r e g i m e n t
has remained stationary at Luck-
now during the whole of the year, furnishing the usual fortnightly guard to Fort Muchee