Report to the Right Hon. Lord Panmure, G. C. B., &c., Minister at War, of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission dispatched to the Seat of War in the East, 1855-56.

  • Great Britain. Sanitary Commission Dispatched to the Army in the East (1855-1856)
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: Report to the Right Hon. Lord Panmure, G. C. B., &c., Minister at War, of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commission dispatched to the Seat of War in the East, 1855-56. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    covered, twenty died, and six whose fate 1 have not learned. I am unable to give the total number of cases of diarrhoea and fever, as the vessels in which many of them occur, are suddenly ordered to sea, and I thus lose sight of them for a time. In conclusion, I have to observe, that much benefit has resulted from the sanitary measures adopted in the harbour since the invasion of cholera. From this period, weekly returns of sick on board ship were made out by Mr. Costello, from which it appears that during the week ending July 2, five cases of cholera, forty-one of diarrhoea, four of dysentery, and ten of fever were under treatment. During the week ending the ] 6th July, there were twenty-nine cases of diarrhoea, seven of dysentery, and fourteen of fever under treatment; and for the week ending the 23rd, thirty-five cases fo diarrhoea, four of dysentery, and seventeen of fever were treated. There was a new case of cholera, in the course of the following week ending July 30th. There were also twenty new cases of diarrhoea, three of dysentery, and three of fever. During the next three weeks ending August 19th, there were about sixty new cases of diarrhoea, eight of dysentery, and twenty- eight of fever; and during the week ending the 19th, there were two new cases of cholera, which were the last that occurred in this divi- sion of the harbour. The other forms of zymotic disease, still continued however, and between the 19th of August and the 19th September, when the ship inspection ceased, there were seventy-one new cases of diarrhoea, twenty-six of dysentery, and twenty-seven of fever brought under treatment. No. VII. Abstract of Statement of Works executed at Scutari under Mr. Hugh Unsworth, Surveyor to the Sanitary Commis- sion, and Abstract of the Labour employed thereon from November 11, 1855, to May 12, 1856. November 1855. Mr. Unsworth, having reached Constantinople from England on the 11th November, commenced operations on the 17th, and ascertained the probable yield of water from the wells at Haidar Pascha. Levels were then taken to ascertain the gradients of the drainage proposed to be laid down, and the whole of the works and buildings at Haidar Pascha were inspected in company with Dr. Sutherland and Major Gordon, R.E. From the 20th to the end of the month, the Engineer was engaged in the preparation of a detailed plan showing the proposed drainage works at Haidar Pascha, and of a report upon the contemplated sanitary improvements, in accordance with general instructions he had received from Mr. Raw-