GWALIOR DISTRICT.
37
year. The private servants of officers have also been vaccinated, where needed, by the vaccina-
tor attached to the station staff hospital, who was sent round the station to vaccinate all
unprotected cases by the station staff surgeon.
XX. Recommendations.—There were four recommendations made during the year, two of
which were attended to, and two not. The recommendations attended to were (1) with regard
to milk, which the men were in the habit of keeping in their brass vessels, and when the heat
became very great, the milk produced severe diarrhœa, akin to cholera in six men : the practice-
was prohibited by order of the Officer Commanding the regiment. (2) In August the heat
at Cawnpore was very great, and a sepoy confined in the cells suffered great distress from it ; it
was recommended that he should be kept in the quarter guard, a large and better ventilated
building, during the day, and it was allowed. The other two recommendations were (1) with
regard to officers' private servants needing treatment as in-door patients. The station staff
hospital I considered a more suitable place for them ; and one objection I had to their being
admitted among sepoy patients was the want of cleanliness and control. (2) In November
last, when small-pox began to appear in Cawnpore, as a precautionary measure along
with others, it was recommended that the cattle kept in some of the huts in the lines
should be removed, and kept in one locality in the vicinity. The Commanding Officer
differed in opinion about the usefulness of the measure, and the recommendation was not
carried out.
Inspection.—The annual medical inspection was made by the Officiating
Deputy Surgeon-General on the 27th of October. The sanitation of the lines
was excellent, and the hospital arrangements were admirable. The regiment
was very healthy, and the recruits a remarkably fine lot of young fellows.
Station staff hospital,—under the charge of Surgeon-Major J. H. Hamil-
ton. A.M.D.,—ministers to the requirements of 128 Europeans and 2,000
natives. There were 2 in-door and 6 out-door patients on the day of inspection.
The hospital was in-good order.
Lock-hospital, also under Dr. Hamilton's charge. The average number of
registered women was 125.6, and the average sick, 27.4 The European
garrison is reported to have been very free from venereal disease during the
preceding year. This is attributed partly to the care which is taken to detect
and withdraw diseased women, and partly to the soldiers being prohibited from
entering the city. The hospital arrangements were all that could be desired.
Recommenda-
tions.
Inspection.
Station staff
hospital.
Lock -hospital.
GWALIOR DISTRICT
( INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF MORAR AND JHANSI ).
Average dail y strength present during the year
Average daily
.
.
. Cavalry 380.54
Infantry 1860.63
„
„ sick per cent. of average strength
.
.
.
„
1.64
" 3.39
Ratio of mortality
„
"
"
.
. . "
1.09
" 1 .
7th Regiment, Bengal Cabalry—Morar.
I. Medical Officer. —Surgeon-Major J. W. R. Amesbury has been in medical
charge of the regiment
during the past year.
II. Location and movements.
— T h e e n t i r e r e g i m e n t h a s r e m a i n e d
Morar during the year, with
the exception of a detachment of
20 men under a native officer
(without native doctor) which has
been stationed at Sipri.
III. Meteorology.—The rainfall
during the year was 20 inches,
11¼ inches less than the preced-
ing year. There were no regular
rains, but most fell in September
and December. The season was
unusually hot, the highest mean
YEAR.
STATION.
PEE CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
. Sitapur, April 1872
.
104.7
.66
3.86
1873
.
Ditto
. .
78.3
.22
2.47
1874
Ditto
. .
63.1
.44
2.5
1875
.
Ditto
. .
69.03
1.32
9.19
1876
. Morar, 30th Jan. 1876
63.2
.22
2.32
Average
. .
75.66
.57
4.06
1877
. Morar.
.
.
41.27
1.09
1.64
temperature being 98.41, and that of 1876 being 89.83.
Medical
officer.
Location and
movemen ts.
Meteorology.
K