Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Lines, huts,
&c.
Drainage.
MEERUT DIVISION.
87
Lock Hospital, Meerut. —The hospital was in charge of Dr. Moir, the Civil
Surgeon of Meerut, throughout the year, with the exception of the time he was
on furlough. The following statement shows the primary venereal affections
contracted by the European troops at Meerut only for 1875 and 1876, with the
mean strength for each year and the ratio per 1,000 of admissions to mean
strength :—
Lock Hospital,
Meerut.
Year.
Mean strength.
Syphilis, primary.
Gonorrhœa.
Ratio per 1,000 of admission to
total mean strength.
1875
.
.
.
1,435.13
59
59
82.22
1876
.
.
.
1,373.29
43
77
87.38
The total number of syphilitic cases admitted into hospital was 67, so that
in 24 cases the disease was contracted out of Meerut. Of the 77 cases of
gonorrhœa and 43 of syphilis, the European Infantry bazar was credited with 41,
the sudder bazar with 29, the Artillery bazar with 19, the localities outside the
barracks with 9, and places unknown with 22. In 1875 the number of cases
admitted into the lock hospital was 70, and the number of patients 48. In
1876 the female patients were 75 and the admissions 139, including 37 cases
of primary syphilis and 102 of gonorrhœa. The average number of women
in hospital was 11 . 27. Regarding the nominal registration of the prostitutes in
the city, the Superintendent thus writes : " As I have often pointed out, it w ould
be unreasonable to expect satisfactory results when the city women are unregis-
tered, as from its proximity to the bazars, it is easy for the women to visit the
bazars, or for the men to go into the city ; and as one aspect of this question
between the parties, and the chief one, is of a commercial nature, the rules
regarding supply and demand will be found to hold good."
8th Regiment Native Infantry—Agra.
I . — M e d i c a l O f f i c e r s .
— S u r g e o n A . B a r c l a y h e l d m e d i c a l c h a r g e o f t h e
regiment from the 1st to the
24th January, when he was
relieved by Surgeon P. D.
Macdonald.
II. Location and move-
ments. —The head-quarters of
the regiment arrived by train
from the camp of exercise at
Delhi on the 21st January, when
the detachment of 170 men under
a European officer which had been
sent to Agra on the 22nd
November of the preceding year
from Bewar was incorporated
with it. It has been since then
stationed at Agra. On the 26th
February a detachment of 166 men proceeded to Fatehgarh, and another of 55 men to Ulwar
on the 2nd October. The sick of both these detachments have been included in the numerical
return.
V. Lines, huts, &c. —The lines are situated on a level piece of ground facing the brigade
parade-ground. They have thus a free exposure to the south, and on all sides the circulation
of air is quite unobstructed by adjacent buildings or other intervening objects. They are
partly shaded by trees ; and altogether, I think, the site is as good as any that could be found in
cantonments. The huts are remarkably good ones, the walls being built of kutcha brick
plastered with mud, and the roof consisting of thatch. Each hut has a verandah on both
sides, and, as it is well ventilated by doors and windows, a maximum amount of coolness and
air is obtained.
VI. Drainage. —The water from the lines is carried away by surface drains, which pour
their contents into larger channels, and is ultimately added to the waters of the Jumna. On
the parade-ground this is not, however, effected so readily; and for some time after a heavy fall
of rain it presents the appearance of a lake.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
. Alipore, January 1870,
from Jhansi .
159.9
3.57
5.4
1872
.
Ditto ditto
.
244.4
3.13
6.34
1873
. Fyzabad, January 1873
110.8
2.63
3.27
1874
.
Ditto ditto
.
91.2
1.73
2.95
1875
.
Ditto ditto
.
122.63
.85
2.78
Average .
.
.
145.78
2.38
4.14
1876
. Agra, 21st January 1876
91.90
1.43
3.28