Medical
officers.
Location and
movements.
Strength of
Detachment
reduced, May
1877.
Other
movements.
Topography.
Meteorology.
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PRESIDENCY DISTRICT.
Mr. Cockburn fully confirms the representations of the commanding and
medical officers of the corps regarding its profound unhealthiness, and ascribes
this to-1, original defective physique of the Bareilly Levy ; 2, want of care in
subsequent recruiting ; 3, a three-years' residence in a malarious station before
coming to Barrackpore, and 4, the insalubrious site of the lines. He recom-
mends sub-soil drainage as the most promising means of improving them.
Station Staff Hospital, Barrackpore.— Inspected by Mr. Cockburn, 4th
December. Hospital accommodation is insufficient. There is room for eight
patients, and an average of 9.30 men was treated out of a strength of native estab-
lishments numbering 813. The most common diseases—diarrhoea, dysentery,
ague and spleen—occasioned seven deaths during the year. There was a
sufficient supply of medicines and instruments, and the hospital arrangements
were satisfactory.
Lock Hospital, Barrackpore.—Inspected 3rd December. The building,
which is the same as before, affords sufficient accommodation. The admission
during the year was 161, and daily sick 4.18. The average number on the
register was 71.31; maximum 102. Inspections are held fortnightly. The hos-
pital duties are properly carried out.
Station Staff Hospital, Dum-Dum.—Inspected 29th December. There is
accommodation for ten patients, which is sufficient. Average daily sick 3.81, out
of a strength of 948. There were three deaths. Fevers and bowel-complaints
were the most common diseases. The state of the hospital and appliances was
satisfactory.
Lock Hospital, Dum-Dum.—Inspected 29th December. Building in good
repair ; accommodation sufficient ; 34.83 was the average number on the rolls
3.73 the average sick. Examinations are held twice a month. The hospital
arrangements were correct.
Causes of
unhealthiness.
Station Staff
Hospital,
Barrackpore.
Lock Hospital,
Barrackpore.
Station Staff
Hospital,
Dum-Dum.
Lock Hospital,
Dum- D um.
5th Regiment natibe Intantrp—Bhagalpur.
I. Medical officers.—The head-quarters of the regiment were during
the whole year under the
medical charge of Surgeon
R. MacRae, M. B ., with the
exception of a short period
between the 22nd February
and 9th March, when Sur,
geon-Major R. H. Perkins
held medical charge.
The detachment at Nya
Dumka remained during
the year under the medical
care of Surgeon Z. A.
Ahmed.
II. Location, and morernents.—
The regiment arrived at Bha-
galpur in course of general relief from Meerut on the 6th January 1877. The head-quarters
remained here during the year. On the 9th January, the Left Wing marched to Nya Dumka,
seven marches distant, arriving there on the 15th January. Under Government orders, the
strength was reduced to a detachment consisting of two companies, the two companies with-
drawn arriving at head-quarters on the 7th January. An interchange of companies takes
place between Bhagalpur and Dumka to enable those at the latter place to undergo the
annual musketry course.
Under the head of topography, Surgeon MacRae mentions that a branch
of the Ganges is cutting its way towards the station, depositing the soil thus
removed on a fertile chur opposite. The inundation of 1877 was not so high
as usual. The military cantonment is farther from this branch than the civil
station, and being well raised, is healthy.
Meteorologically, the year was characterised by short rainfall and high
temperature.
In March and April hot winds blow at Bhagalpur, with occasional dust-
storms from the Ganges. The weather at this time is said to be trying upon
any-weakly organ, more especially the liver. In the end of September and
D
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
Meernt, November 1872
1 7 3 . 7
. 8
4 .
1873
Ditto
ditto
2 4 1 . 1
. 9
5 . 4
1874
Ditto
ditto
2 5 0 .
1 . 9
5 . 4
1875
Ditto
ditto
8 6 . 8 1
. 2
2 . 3 5
1876
B h a g a l p u r , D e c e m b e r 1 8 7 6 .
1 1 6 . 5 4
. 9 9
2 . 2 3
Average
1 7 3 . 6 3
. 9 5
3 . 8 7
1877
Bhagalpur
8 1 . 5 1
. 8 5
2 . 8 7