II . Location, and move
-ments .—A. Head-quarters at Agra
from 1st January to 31st De
-cember 1874.
B. Detachment at Fateh
-garh from 27th January to 13th
October 1874.
C. Detachment at Ulwar
from 1st January to 9th Febru
-ary 1874, and from 10th Septem
-ber to 31st December.
D. Treasure Escort, Detach-
-ment at Ajmere from 1st January
to 22nd February. 1874.
Lines.
Drainage.
Conservancy.
Water-supply.
Food.
Clothing.
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XVIII. Epidemics.—Happily neither cholera nor small-pox occurred in the regiment
during the year. But a curious epidemic occurred of what I am inclined to think was an
anomalous dengue, although the disease has been returned as febricula. The disease first came
to notice about the 14th September, and from that time until its final cessation in the regi-
ment, in the middle of October, 83 cases occurred, but a great many more men suffered from
the disease in a mild form, and only came to hospital for medicine.
When the epidemic was closing in the regiment, dengue of an unmistakable form appeared
in the 59th Regiment, the Royal Artillery, and amongst the residents in the station, and cases
went on occurring so late in the year as November.
An epidemic
of dengue.
Whilst the disease was epidemic in the 18th, I had a mild experience of it in my own
person. I experienced a general feeling of malaise, weakness, headache, &c., and then an eruption
broke out which was chiefly confined to the hands, arms and chest ; the hands became swollen
and there was a peculiar feeling of stiffness in attempting to close the hand.
Both the hospital assistants were attacked by a similar disease but in a more intense
form to what I experienced ; but the eruption, like an exaggerated prickly heat, broke out
upon them ; but they were singular as regards the eruption, as not another man who suffered
from the disease had the eruption, but one man who had the disease in an exceptionally severe
form had entire desquamation of the cuticle, but had no prior eruption, and this was the solitary
instance in which desquamation occurred. The symptoms complained of were great pains in the
head and limbs, thirst and the other signs of fever. The urgency of the disease continued for
four or five days on an average, and then the patients rapidly recovered health and were dis-
-charged to duty.
The treatment was, in the great majority of cases, conducted without quinine, and con
-sisted in the administration of anodynes and diaphoretics.
XIX. Vaccination .—Thirty-four men of the regiment were vaccinated in the year; of
this number twenty four were successful and ten failed.
Besides the above, sixteen children of the regiment were vaccinated successfully.
Deputy Surgeon-General E. C. Thorpe, M. D., inspected on the 16th of
March 1875. He confirms Dr. Hutchinson's description of the state of the
hospital. He found the sanitary state of the lines satisfactory, and all the
arrangements for treating the sick efficient.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
36th The (Bareilly) Begiment Aatibe Enfantry,—Agra.
Surgeon A. B. Strahan held the medical charge during the greater part of
the year and reports :—
Medical
officer.
YEAR.
STATION.
PERCENT. OF STRENGH.
Admissions.
Deaths.
Daily Sick.
1869
Peshawar Nov. 1869 . . .
45.8
.1
1.6
1870
Ditto ditto
284.2
2.6
7.1
1871
Ditto ditto
142.4
1.5
4.2
1872
Ditto ditto
177.1
3.3
4.1
1873
Agra, March 1873 . . .
92.7
2.7
5.4
Average
. . .
148.4
2.2
4.5
1874
Agra . . .
112
2.6
6.
Location and
movements.
Detachments.
The lines afford ample accomodation and are in good order. The drainage
is good, owing to a slight slope towards a neighbouring nullah. Additonal drain
-age channels are about to be cut. The station is kept clean, and the trench
system carefully carried out ; cultivation of the trenched ground has not,
however, been as yet carried out.
The water-supply is ample, but the water somewhat brackish. Food supplies
are regularly inspected by the Quartermaster and a committee of native officers ;
vegetables are abundant and cheap. Some of the men are said to underfeed
themselves.
No change in clothing has occurred ; half-boots, with strap and buckle, arc
used and are said to answer well.
XI. Duty and employment .—As the regiment had to send detachments to Fatehgarh and
Ulwar for the greater part of the year, besides furnishing a considerable number of men for the
famine relief operations, the usual station guards, orderlies, and escort parties &c., had to be
Duty and em
-ployment.