New-York daily tribune., 1854-09-02

who lived with the Turks for weeks together, know
well enough In fact the Turks and Bllgarians m8ll
tain that the beef Of their country is bad for the
health end esuses the death persons who are IN ae
habit Of feeding upon il. ANY one who sees the
droves of under-fed and over yOfked oxen that are
daily driven 10 the slaughtering- houses, must pity
the who are 10 make this sinswy. juceess meat
their chief. IL not their only article Of food.
soldiers oay ration Of one pound Of this meat,
minus the sinews skin, bones, and other a-ti-
ces unfit for consumption reduces itset 70 aooui one
third Of pound Of dry, tough beef, which can he
swallowed by dini Of hard chesiDg. and Which
may be nutritious 10 certain extent Bat il IL
not too much to say that the troops have for the
last two months mainly suDsistsd on their pounds
Of bread and the meagre soup which hard boiling
has extracted from the beef Aforesaid. The bread has
been good since the soldiers took the baking OF Il in
hand. This Is mercy, for heaven knows u what
they would have been reduced if the bread. too
had been bad. No vegetables. not even driel ones
ere included in the soldiers rations and a. yege,a
bles in Bulgaria few scarce and dear, of course
the cannot buy them Only ten days the food OF
the was improved by two ounces Of rice PER man
being added 10 the ra0ns. and this addition. too, was
made only at THE repeated and urgent Applications OF
the medical officers in charge OF the division.
The nsuficiency, the bad quality and the same
ness Of tie food have told upon the men, and pre-
pared the way for and assisted the banefg effects Of
the Dewna malaria. In England we are accustomed
TO soldiers full OF robust health here the men
are bronzed with exposure TO sun and air, but they
have got thin, and the muscles OF their legs sa arms
and legs of MANY and those men that on the
sick-list and was quite startled by their eanness,
and the unhealthy relaxed condition OF the muscles.
The generality of the men COMPLAIN, not of hunger,
but Of want Of appetite. They cannot eat their
food feel weak and are unable 20 move. These are
not men on the sick list. One half the regiments
would go 10 the hospital tents ii such complaints
could bo attended to. In some the regimental
physicians took such patients in, and fed them on
arrow-rOot and other nutritious articles In almost
every case the patients were cured in few days,
and their strength and appetite returned. Bat Il
is simply impossible to put one half OF regiment
the sick list, and physc them with nutritious food
from the hospital stores. The people OF England
who have provided food for their soldiers will see
that they get it. and that British camps. wherever
they may be- will in sture be spared the disgrace of
hunger cholera and hunger typhus. am fully aware
that there days and weeks IN the coure of long
ard arduous campaign, when II is impossible 10 pro-
vide for the proper maintenance of the soldiers The
safety OF the army reqres at times that quick marches
should be made through inhosptable tracts OF eoun
try, and the camping on unhealthy ground, and the
reducing troops to the barest necessares of life,
on such occasions matters OF painful necessity. On
such occasions, too, victims will fall in no.
bic cause, nor is tie guilt Of their blood TO be
laid on any mans he ad. Far different the in
The present instance, where many lives have been
criced TO disease, aud the safety Of the whole army
endangered not from any strategetlcal necessity but
through the superclliousEess OF the commanders, the
azness of the cOmmlssaTat and the carclessness aud
improydence of the heads of departments generally
For while the men, especially those OF the light
divisions undeied, they were also overworked.
In this climate and az this, the most enervatng
san of the year, they had as many as five heddays
per week aud on each occasion they marched out at
and returned into camp at o'clock A. NJ. And that,
too without any Of the healthfu excitement of cam
pagn, merely for tho purpose OF dri, for tue STALE
hackDeyed and deadeniDg exercise OF marching in
columns and forming into squares-a practice usefnl
enough in q peace garrison, but mortlfyng AMI
utterly exhaustiDg at the present spot, time, and
season. To this drill the m6n were, and are, taken
out before they have had their breakfasts. They
march and countermarch with hungry stomach and
come in utterly out and broken for the rest the
day. No provision, too, was formerly made for their
breakfasts and up the last weeks they had to feed
on bread and water. OF late only daily allowance
of an ounce of coffee per has been made, and
this coffee served out 10 them in the berry, the men
had the roasting and grinding and they had to pro-
vide the necessary implements at their own expense
Tea cocoa ssgo and 6rrowroOt are provided for the
fleet but these luxures are too costly, or their dis
trbution is TOO troublesome 10 be given to the army
As said before these medicines have in some cases
been supplied from the hospital stores to patients who
complained of gldiness, want of appetite, and loss
of strength. In each case their effect was most
sauary against the then prevailing epidemic OF in
anitiOn
July 3o-I must again repeat it, the disease which
has broken out among our troops IL cholera IN ITS
deadliest form. Ii introduced by starvation and
caused by malaria, but il has now become contagious
and attacks whose general health Is better than
that of the majority of the men. have again visited
the epcampInent of the sd and find that some of
their hospital oreries and OF their surgeons, DIR.
jenkins. are laid up. Among the dead of the 10Th is
their Quartermaster Sergeant and three women and
among the losses Of the 9TH is the loss OF their Quar-.
termaster, Mr.. Hogan. One of the officers of
the 23d, Mr. Bathurst, was yesterday put
on the sick list, and his symptoms were
alarming. 1t is, however, confidently expec-
ted that he will pull through. The officer. gem
erallv having the 10 provide better food have
Ix1.. l.xrsI sIa ND "a q. hn
hoped that the new quarters of the regiments will
arrest the progress OF the plague. But If the other
causes Of the distemper remain unremoved, and the
contagion becomes virulent the disease ~ Likely
TO attack even the healthy and the strong and
the reports shall have TO send out will bring sor-
row to the houses Of the rich as well a. the
poor. Whatever could be dAe TO stop the progress
of the disease by coDtagon as been done, but that
is yery little. Ii would appear that the army have
been sent out to the and OF epidemics, without any
sort of disnfectng huid. AT least none such are 10
be found in the medicinal store wagons. The stores
of the most necessary medicines, too, appear to be
woully scanty and insuihcient' iesterday' as was
sitting with party of officers of one of the reg-
mepts here, the surgeon of another regiment came
toiliug up the hill 10 ask for the loan OF small
quantity of opium and sulphurc acid, two medi-
Cines specially recommended i9r tne cureIno' 0.
cholera for in its present form that IS incurable but
of diaIrhea, which precedes the less malignant
cases. He returned TO his patients without the
medicines h. required, becausethe surgeon to whom
be applied bad none to give nm. ms startled
me, and at the same time | recollected of having
read of enormous quantities of medicines having
been provided for the army in the Orient Upon
ipouiry found that those stores, be they where
tbey NAV. are not here and that former repeated
ranionstrances of tie regimeIhal surgeons have not
availed to bring them up. 1 found that from
the first the medicinal staff of the light ti-
vision were expected TO take the field with
nothing but Their field Planners, two sideoags,
10 be carried by one horse and supplied with medi-
ciues not for the hospital but for the battlefield
The regimental medicine chests were taken away
,bey must sssuredly do much good the troops out