Huts.
Conservancy.
Latrines.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Medical
Officer.
The regiment has been
stationed during the year,
with the exception of a de
-tachment, at Berhampore
from 1st January to the 31st
March, and one at Alipore
from 1st January to the 4th
February.
Location.
Water-supply.
Diet.
PRESIDENCY DISTRICT
11
Right Wing, 39th Regiment, Aatibe Infantry—Alipore.
Surgeon Gordon Price has been in medical charge of the wing' from April
1st to the end of the year. He reports—.
The wing has been stationed at Alipore from, April 1st to December 31st, 1874.
Lines, &c.—The huts, which are those formerly occupied by the wing of 10th Regiment,
Native Infantry, are clean and in a fair state of repair; there is no crowding.
Conservancy.— The men are obliged to use the latrines of the 28th Regiment, Punjab
Native Infantry, which is a very great hardship, as they are situated at a very considerable
distance from their lines. New latrines, on the simple plan in use at the hospital of the 37th
Regiment, Native Infantry, described by Mr. Carmichael in the annual report of 1873, have
been constructed at a short distance from their lines, but they cannot be used, as the establish-
ment of mehters for keeping them clean has not yet been provided, although the latrines were
completed some four or five months ago.
Diet.— I believe under-feeding is not, as a rule, practised by the men to any great extent;
still two scorbutic cases were admitted during the nine months, evidently due to improper and
under-feeding. The regimental bazaar is clean and in good order, and the articles of diet sold
in it are always of good quality. Inspections are frequently made.
Diet.
Clothing.— The clothing of the men when on duty is suited to the season of the year.
The shoes worn on duty are the ordinary ammunition boots, which often give rise to
blisters of the feet, and small ulcers.
Clothing.
Duty.—The duty, on account of the great number of guards to be furnished and the
distance the men have to march to some of them, is very heavy. Parades are held generally
twice in the cold and once in the hot season. The average number of nights in bed has
b e e n 3 . 4 5 .
The principal causes of sickness during the nine months have been mala--
rious fevers, dysentery and diarrhœa ; considerably more than one-half of the
admissions into hospital having been due to ague and remittent fevers.
Surgeon Price remarks that since the month of August, on the 20th of
which the water-supply was changed, there has been a remarkable decrease in
the number of cases of diarrhœa and dysentery.
Duty.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— Three deaths have occurred in the wing during
the nine months,—two in the regimental hospital and one whilst the man was on sick leave.
The two which occurred in the hospital were both due to chronic pneumonic phthisis.
4th Regiment, Aatibe Infantry—Bhagalpur.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1869 . . . Allahabad, Dec. 1867,
from Jhansi . . .
117.1
3
2.8
1870 . . . Ditto ditto . . .
211.2
3.2
4.4
1871 . . . Cachar, Dec. 1870 . . .
309.1
5.06
11.08
1872 . . . Bhágalpur, Dec. 1872
191.8
3.1
11.2
1873 . . . Ditto ditto . . .
96.04
1.49
3.9
Average . . .
. . .
185.04
3.17
6.67
1874 . . . Bhágalpur . . .
58.7
.71
1.94
The drainage of the regimental lines was very good. Latrines were not in
use, and the medical officer remarks: "It is much to be desired that the trench
system should be introduced. It has been under consideration for a long time
past, but nothing seems to come of it." The hospital latrine is worked on the
"dry-earth" system, which answers admirably. Water-supply is good and
abundant, and got from wells. No washing of the clothes or of the person is
allowed at the wells. The regimental bazar was well supplied with the various
kinds of food used by the sepoys, who did not under-feed themselves; and the
Surgeon R. C. Sanders, M. B., held charge from the 1st January to
30th June, and Surgeon A.
J. Wall, M.D., from the 1st
July to the 31st December,
excepting from the 4th to the
25th July, when Surgeon
-Major Baillie had the medi
-cal care.
Drainage.
Conservancy.