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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
prevent the disease spreading to other communities, and try to limit it as far as possible to the
affected men. Cholera medicines in sufficient quantity will be with every detachment. Excreta
must be buried in pits at least three feet deep, and distinct from any source of water supply;
all the known precautions concerning soiled clothes and vessels must be employed, and the
disinfectants freely used about persons and places. All fatal cases should be buried deep.
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APPENDIX F.
No. 29
To the Officers in medical charge, 16th, 42nd, 43rd, 44th N. I., Transport Corps, and Depôts.
I have the honor to give you the following instructions regarding requirements a
nd regimental returns for the Duffla expedition.
Should you not accompany the detachment from the regiment, a copy of this memo-
randum should be given to the officer proceeding in charge.
2. The medical officer in charge of the detachment is recommended to keep a diary, in
which the health of the men under his charge, and the various incidents of the expedition
affecting it, may be accurately noted at the time.
3. A special report should be drawn up to the close of the expedition, from the notes thus
systematically taken during the period the troops are on the service. These notes should
detail topography, climate, duty, service, camps, food, water, clothing, shelter, conservancy,
&c., and any incidents of the voyage or march from, or to, head-quarters.
4. This special report should be accompanied by a special return in the form of that detailed
at page 320 of the medical and sanitary report of the native army of Bengal for 18725 in which
the hospital statistics, sickness, mortality, and invaliding of the detachment should be shown.
5. The statistics and diseases of "followers" should be included in this return as far as
practicable; they should be placed at the foot, after the treated in other hospitals; their
average strength being noted and their daily average number of sick.
6. A new admission and discharge book, and medical certificate book, will be forwarded
to you for use from the date of the detachment leaving head-quarters. On small detachments
leaving the main body, an ms. form of the A and D book should be used to register all admis
-sions, &c., until they can be embodied in the detachment book.
7. The following returns will be required from the detachments detailed for the ex-
pedition:—
A.—Hospital Morning Slate.
Printed copies will be supplied to you, but in the event of their not being ready in time,
you will be so good as to make one out daily in the form of the monthly abstract return
of sick.
" Other diseases" are to be named, in the column of remarks, and wounds and injuries also
recorded.
The return should include the diseases of the coolies and followers on the reverse page.
B.—Weekly return of sick for detachments.
8. You will notice that this is a revised form, the column of "remaining sick" being new.
This entails particular attention to the column "discharged otherwise." All transfers and
the cause of, and place of, transfer, must be noted on the return. On this return, note under
strength of the detachment the average strength of any small details from the detachment sent
away, or rejoining, with dates; and under the "average daily number of sick" is invariably to
be entered the average daily ratio per cent. of sick to strength for the week.
At the end of the return is to be entered—
Strength of officers present during the week.
Rank, name and disease of any sick.
Date of admission, discharge, and result.
C.—Monthly abstract return of sick.
9. The revised form No. 35 is to be used. The object will be to show on it the total
average daily strength of your detachment for the month, wherever details are stationed, and the
sickness and diseases out of that strength, and daily average sick.
It must be made out, as usual, for a month, or portion of a month. All depôt hospitals
and hospital assistants at an Out-post, are to send in details to the medical officer to enable him
to make out the monthly return for the whole.
10. From a depôt under a medical officer, or a detachment under a hospital assistant, a
separate weekly and monthly return should be rendered to you, and incorporated.
11. All the reports and returns of troops detailed for the expedition should commence
from the date the detachment leaves its head-quarters, until its return to them.
Memo. No. 30.
To Regimental Medical Officers:
With the detachment of the regiment proceed-
ing with, or from, its head-quarters for the Duffla
expedition, you will be so good as to take, or
send, the hospital establishment as per margin.
Doolie-bearers in the proportion of six per com-
pany, and dandies or litters will be brought up with the stores of the force.
1 Hospital assistant.
1 Shop coolie or dresser.
1 Bheestie.
1 Sweeper.
1 Cook, if required.