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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Strength.
The strength of the arsenal establishment was—
Arrangements
for medical
treatment.
Latrine.
European officers . . .
3
Warrant and non-commissioned officers . . .
33
Europeān women . . . 29
" children . . . 75
140
Native establishment . . . 719
859
On the day of inspection there was no one sick.
The Europeans of the arsenal establishment are, when sick, treated in
their own quarters, but could, if necessary, be admitted into the garrison
hospital now occupied by the sick of the detachment of the European regi--
ment on duty in the fort; the natives receive medicine as out-door patients at
the garrison dispensary, or, if necessary, are sent up to the native garrison
hospital in the Chatham lines; the sepoys on duty in the fort similarly receive
medicine at the garrison dispensary, but in severe illness are sent up to their
regimental hospitals, some five miles distant from the fort.
The natives used a latrine on the dry-earth system which had been con-
structed in the lower fort on the Jumna side.
During 1874 the average strength of the Europeans attached to the arsenal
was 33.75, and from them there was an average daily number of sick of 1.55
per cent.; there was not any death during the year.
The medicines were in sufficient quantity, and the instruments in good
order.
The hospital establishment was favorably reported on.
Native
garrison
hospital.
Strength.
Hospital.
Native Garrison Hospital.— Deputy Surgeon-General J. P. Walker, M. D.,
inspected this hospital on the 2nd March 1875.
Surgeon-Major W. Ashton, M. B., of the Royal Artillery, and divisional
Staff Surgeon, was in medical charge.
This hospital is for the reception of the sick from natives employed in
the arsenal, commissariat department, sick soldiers passing through the station,
and other camp followers in cantonments. The strength of the natives entitled
to be admitted into it is 1,736.
On the date of Dr. Walker's inspection there were nine patients in
hospital.
A description of the hospital was given in the report of 1872; it is situated
in the Chatham lines, and is reported on as being clean; and the medical
arrangements were all well carried out. During 1874 there were 241 patients
admitted, of whom seven died, or at the rate of 0.40 per cent. of average
strength, the principal mortality was from diseases of the chest, dysentery,
and diarrhœa.
The hospital establishment is reported on as being well conducted, and
attentive to their several duties.
Lock hospital.
Examination
rooms.
Lock Hospital—Dr. J. P. Walker inspected the Allahabad lock hospital
on the 2nd March 1875.
Surgeon E. R. Johnson, 33rd Regiment, Native Infantry, was in medical
charge up to the 24th November 1874, and Surgeon-Major Odevaine, 34th
Regiment, Native Infantry, from that date to the end of the year.
The women on the register were examined weekly in the lock hospital, in
the Kuttra suburb, and in a hired room in the city; the examinations were held
on consecutive days; so that women who by any cause were prevented from
attending at one place went to one of the other centres for examination, and
any who were found diseased were at once sent to the lock hospital.
Strength.
The average number of prostitutes on the register in 1874 was 115.92, and
the daily average number of sick was 23.83, or at the rate of 20.55 per cent.
on average strength.