Vaccination.
Recommend-
ations.
Special
observations
and remarks.
Inspection.
Native
garrison
hospital.
Lock hospital.
MedicalOfficers.
Location.
Detachment.
Topography
and physical
geography.
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ALLAHABAD DIVISION.
after each death. The stools were treated with carbolic acid and buried immediately.
Fourteen persons who dwelt in the block of huts inhabited by the bunniah were sent into camp
for ten days, and the buildings thoroughly disinfected with sulphurous anhydride and carbolic
acid; the floors dug up, and the walls cleaned with mudwash. As the bunniah's dejections,
&c., had fallen about the floor of his small house, with the concurrence of Dr. J. P. Walker,
the Deputy Surgeon-General, the whole stock of grain, valued at some Rs. 300, was seized
and burned. The small-pox case was a young sepoy, who had good small-pox marks, and who
said the attack was his third. There were some 300 to 400 well-formed 'pocks,' which were
semi-confluent on left forearm. He contracted the disease from a wheelwright, employed by
the bazar chaudri, who had partially recovered from the disease.
XIX. vaccination.—Of all the recruits,29 have been vaccinated successfully; and all
boys, girls and infants in the lines, who had not two good vaccination marks, have been
vaccinated or re-vaccinated; 237 operations have been performed.
XX. Recommendations.— I. That means should be taken to improve the supply of atta.
The Commanding Officer has provided at considerable cost (Rs. 400) a regimental mill.
II. That all meat, fish and milk be brought to the hospital daily for inspection by the
medical officer before being sold in the bazar. Orders were issued to that effect by
the Commanding Officer.
III. That all sepoys provide themselves with a warm padded coat for wear when off duty.
The men have been required to provide such a coat.
IV. That the men be prohibited from visiting the city during the prevalence of small-pox.
The Commanding Officer issued an order to that effect.
XXI. Special observations and remarks.—I consider the disablement due to blisters of the
feet, caused by ill-fitting boots, to be a matter urgently requiring serious consideration. The
figures given by Mr. Lewtas, and quoted at page XV in Report for 1876, do not, I believe,
represent anything like the real amount of inefficiency due to this cause. Socks are certainly
necessary.
Inspection.—The regiment was inspected by the Officiating Deputy Surgeon-
General on the 5th of November. The lines were in excellent order. Dr.
Hutchinson considers them "model lines." The health of the regiment was
good, and hospital arrangements efficient. The recruits were inspected and are
pronounced to be "fine-looking lads."
Native garrison hospital, inspected by Dr. Hutchinson, 6th November
1877, Surgeon-Major W. Ashton, M. B. ,
B r i t i s h M e d i c a l , D e p a r t m e n t , i n c h a r g e ,
ministers to the medical wants of the Commissariat and Arsenal native servants,
officers' servants, &c. There were 109 admissions and 2 deaths from January
to October. The hospital arrangements were satisfactory.
Lock hospital, inspected on the same day. The average number of
women on the register during the first 10 months of the year was 131.58;
admissions 395; admissions for venereal 147 in a garrison of 928, against 131 in
934 for a corresponding period of the previous year. The hospital is rather
small; its arrangements were satisfactory. Weekly inspections are held.
Dr. Hutchinson assigns the following reasons for the want of success of the
lock hospital arrangements at Allahabad : (1) distance of the hospital from
c a nt onme nt s ( 2½) mi l e s ) ; ( 2) e va s i on of t he r ul e s ; ( 3) vi c i ni t y of vi l l a ge s a nd
municipal area; (4) absence of orders preventing access of soldiers to the city,
as at Cawnpore.
3rd Regiment. Native Infantry—Dinapore.
Case of small-
pox.
I. Medical Officers.—Surgeon M. D. Moriarty, M.B., remained in medical
charge of the head-quarters
throughout the year, the
detachment at Berhampore
being under the medical care
of Surgeon-Major S. M.
Shircore. Dr. Moriarty
furnishes the report.
II. Location and movements.
— H e a d - q u a r t e r s c o n t i n u e d a t
Dinapore during the year. Two
companies were stationed at
Berhampore; they were relieved
twice, in April and in October.
III, Topography and physical
geography.—The rainfall was so
small, and the Ganges so low
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
. Cachar, November 1872
128.3
2.1
2.8
1873
.
Ditto
.
132.3
2.8
3.9
1874
.
Ditto
.
106.6
1.7
3.2
1875
.
Ditto
.
129.
2.5
3.2
1876
. Dinapore, March 1876 .
90.7
3.5
2.6
Average
.
117.3
2.5
3.1
1877
. Dinapore
.
.
7 1 . 9
.56
2.06