Huts.
Drainage.
Latrines.
Water-supply.
Diet.
Clothing.
Boots.
Duties.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Improvements
suggested;
and adopted.
large ward 144 × 20, the floor of which is on a level with the outside ground.
There is neither dead-house, bath-room or hospital assistants' quarters, all of
which additions are urgently required. The men were looking ill. He suport-
-ed the medical officer's recommendations regarding the extension of accommoda
-tion and improvement of the hospital, and recommended that a larger number
of the men than usual should be allowed to go on leave. On his later visit the
men were looking better. A bath-room had been added to the hospital, and
sufficient hutting money sanctioned to build accommodation for a wing of a re-
giment. The medical duties were satisfactorily performed.
Lock-hospital.
Medical
charge.
Location.
Rain fall.
Dr. Cannon also inspected the Lock hospital at the station on the 7th of
November. It was under the charge of Surgeon G. R. Triphook, M.D. Regis-
-tration is not complete, and many women with whom European soldiers consort
live in villages beyond the range of the Act. Much advantage has accrued from
the employment of a detective dhai and constable. There were 816 women on
the register on the average ; there were 825 reported for non-attendence ; the
admissions amounted to 175 ; 76 for primary syphilis and 80 for gonnorrhœa.
This compares favorably with the previous year. The cases of venereal disease
among European troops amounted to 98.8 against 117.14 per thousand. The
lock hospital has been transferred to a new building in cantonments, which is
said, as regards accommodation, site and ventilation, to be satisfactory.
45th.—(Battray's Sikhs) Regiment A atibe I nfantry.—Moradabad and
Shahjahanpur.
Surgeon W. W. Galloway continued in medical charge of the right
wing throughout the year
and writes the report.
The left wing at Shahja
-hanpur for the year was
under the charge of the
civil surgeon of that station.
The head-quarters and right
wing remained at Mora
-dabad during the year, and
36 men were on duty in
the famine districts, of
whom 12 had not returned
at the end of the year.
The rain fall for 1874 was
much above the average,
53.69 inches being regis -
tered ; in 1873 there were only 41.4 inches and in 1872, 42.2 inches registered.
The huts were kept in pretty good repair during the year, but require
thatching before the ensuing rainy season. There has not been any overcrowd
-ing. Owing to the station being on high sloping ground, the drainage is every
-where good and the rainfall surface water is at once carried off. The trench
system of latrines is in use, and answers well. The water-supply is good and
abundant. The regimental bazar was well supplied with the usual articles of
diet, and at reasonable prices, during the year, with the exception of March,
when compensation for dearness of provisions was given. The sepoys do not
seem to underfeed ; if any of them do so, the fact is easily ascertained by a
reference to the regimental bunneah. The clothing was as usual, and was
quite suitable. As there were so many cases of sore feet caused by the ammu-
-nition boots, the use of a black leather shoe was introduced, and has been
found so far to answer very well. The duties have not been very heavy. The
number of nights in bed of the different ranks was as follows—Havildars 7.20,
Naicks 6.84, Buglers 11.91, Sepoys, 5.44.
YEAR.
STATION.
PERCENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Deaths.
Daily sick.
1869
Mooltan December 1868
from Jullundur . . .
126.2
1.6
5.8
1870
Do. do. . . .
82.2
1.89
4 . 0 1
1871
Do. do. . . .
61.3
1.15
4.37
1872
Moradabad and Shah -
jahanpur Feb. 1862
68.9
1.52
3.18
1873
Do. do. . . .
73.6
.66
2.43
Average.
82.4
1.36
3.96
1874
Moradabad and Shah-
jahanpur. . . .
90.3
.25
3.30