Location.
Meteorology.
Lines.
Drainage.
Conservancy.
Water-supply.
60
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Inspection.
Deputy Surgeon-General E. C. Thorp, M. D., inspected on the 27th of February
1875. The sanitary and medical duties connected with the regiment were
being satisfactorily performed. There were 5 men in hospital, and 3 "line sick."
The only defects observed were a want of cook-rooms, dead-house, servants'
houses, and hospitals assistants' quarters connected with the hospital, but plans
or these had been prepared, and sanction obtained for their construction.
2nd Central India Forse—Augur.
Medical
charge.
Diet.
Duty.
Hospital.
Surgeon D. F. Keegan, M. D., writes the annual sanitary report of the
regiment. The following
medical officers have been
in charge of the head quar -
ters of the regiment during
the past year. Surgeon
R.Caldecott, Bombay
Army, from 1st January to
1st February, and Surgeon
Keegan from this latter
date to the end of the year.
The detachment at In -
dore was under the charge
of Surgeon-Major Beau -
mont, Madras Army—and
the detachments which accompanied the camp of the Agent of the Governor
General for Central India, were under the charge of Surgeons Keegan and Cal -
decott.
The head-quarters of the regiment were stationary at Augur during the
year; a detachment of some 24 men was stationed at Indore, and small detach
-ments were on duty at twelve outlying stations. No meteorological observa
-tions, with the exception of the rainfall, are recorded. Rain fell on 57 days,
and upwards of 45 inches were collected, this quantity being about the average
for Malwa. The lines, as described in former reports, were in good repair, and
the men were not overcrowded in them. The drainage is described as being
excellent; the conservancy arrangements were the same as in last report. The
water-supply was from wells, and was abundant and of good quality. During
the cold weather the water in the wells was standing at 30 feet from the surface
of the earth, during the hot season at 42 feet, and during the height of the
rains at 15 feet. There was no alteration in the diet of the men; vegetables
were readily procurable, and the practice of underfeeding was not obser
- v e d .
XI. Duty and employment.— The number of men at head-quarters throughout the year
averaged 224.11. For the first quarter of the year they were constantly engaged in parades
and the usual drill and sentry work. During the hot weather and rains the duty became lighter;
and, when the rains ended, the usual cold weather parades and drill were gone through again.
One hundred and four men were, throughout the year, stationed at the different outposts.
About 75 men were constantly at their homes on furlough, and the balance of the regiments
or about 90 men, were constantly enaged on escort duty throughout Western Malwa and
Central India. The men at head-quarters in the first quarter of the year got five nights
in bed during the week; during the remainder of the year they got three during the
week.
XIV. Hospital.—The present hospital, which was opened for the reception of patients
in August 1872, is situated to the north of, and about 200 yards from, the regimental lines
It is a well built pucca building, and answers its purpose perfectly. The walls are constructed
of red bricks, and the roof is double tiled. In the roof are two ventilators. The cubic capa
-city of the principal ward is 12,592 cubic feet. The average daily number of sick at head
-quarters having been 5.85, each man had therefore 2,150.5 cubic feet of breathing space.
The cubic capacity of the two small wards to the south of the building is 1,700 cubic feet
each. The dead-house, latrines, and dwellings of the hospital establishment are situated a
little to the north of the hospital.
YEAR.
STATION.
PERCENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions Deaths.
Daily sick.
1869
Augur . . .
1 1 8 . 2
.8
2.4
1870
Do. and Goonah . . .
107.6
.61
4.5
1871
Goonah . . .
85.1
.61
3.61
1872
D o . . . .
57.9
.4
2.3
1873
Augur, October 1873 . . .
40.3
1.22
2.1
Average.
81.82
.73
2.98
1874
Augur . . .
58.9
.40
2.66