Water sup
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ply.
Diet.
Duty.
Hospital.
SAUGOR DISTRICT.
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Water-supply.— The water-supply is abundant at all seasons of the year and is
of good quality ; water is collected in troughs, from which the horses drink, and afterwards
utilized for the garden
IX. Diet.— Provisions have been cheap and abundant throughout the year. Rice is not
so plentiful as in most other stations garrisoned by the Madras troops, but the sepoys now to
a great extent substitute wheaten flour for it. In the cold season nearly all varieties of vegetables
are procurable at a low rate. Compensation for dearness of rice has been given, and on an
average during the past year was Rs. 2-15-7 per mensem per man. The medical officer
inspects the bazar weekly.
XI. Duty and employment.— The men perform the ordinary duties of a cavalry regi
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ment in garrison; there are regimental parades, and two brigade parades twice a week.
Number of nights in bed.—head-quarters, 6.11 ; detachment at Jubbulpore, 3.55.
XIV Hospital.— The new hospital has been in use during the past year ; it is built on
a slightly elevated piece of ground to the west of the regimental lines; from its position and
the nature of the soil the drainage is very good. The hospital is really one of the finest
buildings in the station, and, when the out-houses are completed (probably three months hence);
it will be everything one could desire. It is built to contain 18 patients, allowing 1,672 cubic
feet per man ; but I think the number might be increased to 22 or more without any ill effect
resulting, provided the cases were similar to those one generally meets with in regimental
practice: There has been no overcrowding; a free current of air is continually kept up by me
a n s
o f o p p o s i t e d o o r s ( t w o b e d s b e t w e e n ) a n d s m a l l w i n d o w a l i t t l e b e l o w t h e c e i l i n g .
XV Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—present 252.43,
absent 39.81 : total 292.24.
Sickness, mor
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tality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUM-
BER OF
D a i l y a v e r a g e n u m b e r o f s i c k .
PER CENT. OF
STRENGTH PER
ANNUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k .
Head-quarters at Saugor . . .
1st Jan. 1874 31st Dec.1874 174.67
259
2
7.09 148.27
1.14
4.05
Detachment at Jubbulpore . . .
Do. . . .
Do . . .
77.76
36
1
1.49
46.29
1.28
1.91
TOTAL . . .
252.43
295
.3
8.58 116.8
1 . 2
3.4
Number of deaths in hospital, 3; out of hospital, 1; total, 4; per cent. of total strength . . .
1.36
" invalided, 6 ;
" " "
2.05
" sent on sick leave. 2; " " " . . .
0.68
" days spent in hospital, 3.135.35; per admission, 10.62; per man " " . . .
10.72
" on sick leave, 302
; per man, 151 ; " " . . .
1.03
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . .
11.75
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— Intermittent fever has been by far the most preva
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lent disease, and is to be met with all the year round, but is most common after the rains and
in the cold weather. No doubt the unusually heavy rainfall this year caused the excess of
admissions from malarial fevers. There were 13 admissions from bowel complaints; but these
were not of climatic origin.
VIII. Epidemics.— Only two cases of small-pox occurred in the grass-cutters' lines ;
both made a good recovery.
Principal
causes of sick
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ness.
Epidemics.
Small-pox.
This disease has been more or less prevalent in the city of Saugor and surrounding coun
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try since last April; it did not appear in the regimental lines, and this immunity, I think, may
be fairly attributed to nearly all the inhabitants being vaccinated in 1872, and vaccination has
been kept up ever since.
XIX Vaccination.— At head-quarters 43 children have been vaccinated during the year ;
all successful. 149 children have been vaccinated in the detachment at Jubbulpore ; 110 suc
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cessful and 39 unsuccessful.
Vaccination.
Deputy Surgeon-General R. Cockburn inspected the lines and hospital of
this regiment on the 12th October 1874. He reports the lines as being in a good
situation, but the huts small and badly ventilated. The surface drainage,
owing to the lines being on a slope, is good ; the lines were very clean ; the refuse
was regularly burned, and the ashes obtained from this source were used instead
of dry-earth in the latrines, and appeared to answer the purpose very well. The
men resort to the trenches, but their families use the private latrine attached
to each hut ; the sewage is removed twice a day and buried. The hospital is a
handsome stone-building with good broad verandahs and good latrine, and
bathing accommodation attached to it at one end. Hospital latrine well attended
to, and in it the "dry-earth" system is employed. The medicines and in
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struments were in sufficient quantity and in good condition ; the usual medical
details of the hospital were effectively carried out.
Inspection.
Sanitary con
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dition.
Hospital.