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ALLAHABAD DIVISION.
The admissions during the year were 246; and of these there were 57.70 per
cent. of primary syphilitic cases; 35.77 per cent. of secondary syphilitic; and
and 6.50 per cent. of gonorrhœal cases.
The average strength of the European troops in garrison was 1090.42, and
the admissions into hospital were from primary venereal affections at the rate
of 2.42 per cent. of average strength.
The number of prostitutes on the register has increased from 96 to 129,
but this number must represent a fraction only of those who may be suspected to
reside in the numerous bazars, and city of Allahabad, and in the villages close by.
The medical officer in charge reports: "That the lock hospital of
Allahabad can only have a limited influence in protecting the troops from
venereal disease, as the cantonment is broken up into several parts and divided
from one another by ground under municipal authority. "The proximity of the
city to the new cantonments, and the case with which women can leave by
railway, tends to increase the amount of disease amongst the soldiers, and
prevents a complete registration of the prostitutes.
All the arrangements in the hospital for the proper treatment and com
-fort of the inmates were considered to be satisfactory.
Admissions.
Disease among
European
troops.
Insufficiency
of arrange
- m e n t s .
2nd Regiment Native (Light) Infantry.—Dinapore.
Medical Officers .—Surgeon-Major J. Tuson, M.D. held charge from 1st Janu
-ary to 6th June 1874; Sur-
geon Flood, 109th Regi
-ment, from 6th June to
14th. June 1874; Surgeon
A. B. Seaman, from 14th
June to 31st December
1874.
The latter officer re
-ports—
11. Location and move
-
ments .—The regiment has been
stationed at Dinapore during
the entire year.
A. detachment, consisting of
seventy-seven sepoys and two
native officers proceeded to
Mozufferpore on famine relief
duty on the 26th April, and returned on the 17th July. A small detachment was sent to
Khagoal, as usual, during the relief season to guard the rest
camp.
IV. Meteorology .—The year 1874 at Dinapore was characterised by a short, though severe,
hot season, a protracted rainy season, and by an unusual prevalence of easterly wind, more or less
throughout the entire year. The highest temperature during the month of March has 96°,
during April 104°, during May 108°, against 90°, 100°, and 104° of the corresponding months
of the previous year, and 86°, 100°, and 103° of the year 1872, the figures having been taken
throughout from the same thermometer suitably placed within the hospital building.
Year.
Station.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths.
Daily sick.
1869
Alipore, Nov.1866 from
Lucknow . . .
138.2
3.3
6.1
1870
Jalpaiguri, Feb. 1870 . . .
68.5
1.8
4.3
1871
Ditto ditto . . .
108.
1.7
4.3
1872
Dinapore, March 1872
91.7
2.4
2.8
1873
Ditto ditto . . .
54.7
.4
2.2
Average . . .
. . .
92.2
1.9
3.9
1874
Dinapore.
75.9
.5
3.4
Medical
officers.
Location and
movements.
Meteorology.
In 1874 the rain-fall was 50.50 inches; in 1873, 43.67 inches.
In August the rivers Sone and Ganges rose to an unprecedented height, as a consequence
of prolonged rain up-country, and the water, rushing up the nullah "Douna;" and other
channels, completely flooded the station. Communication was impeded, and for some days
considerable inconvenience was experienced. On the subsidence of the water and desiccation of
the land, the effluvia arising from decaying vegetable matter were offensive. As a result of these
floods, there was a marked increase in the number of admissions into hospital for "fever" and
dysentery, although the effect was not so marked as one would have anticipated.
V. Lines .—The native infantry lines are reported on as having been clean
and well kept, and the drainage of them, under ordinary circumstances, is
effective; the barracks are separated by sufficient intervals, and between them
are some fine old trees affording grateful shade. Surgeon Seaman reports the
dimensions of the huts as being much too small.
V I . D r a i n a g e . —
T h e
d r a i n a g e o f t h e r e g i m e n t a l l i n e s i s s a t i s f a c t o r y ; b u t t h e s a m e c a n n o t
be said as regards the station generally, more especially during the rainy season, when all the
drains, nullahs, and water-courses, receive at its rising all the back-water from the river, and
take it into the middle of the station. Situated as Dinapore is, however, it is easier to
discover defects in the system that now obtains, than to suggest a remedy.
Floods.
Lines.
Drainage.