Report on the medical topography and statistics of the southern division of the Madras army.
- Madras. Medical Board Office.
- Date:
- 1843
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the southern division of the Madras army. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![lows is felt at the Tanjore side of the cantonment, which though exposed to dust and high winds at some periods of the jrear, is in other respects well situated and healthy. ground!parade The general parade is an extensive open plain, on the extreme south of the cantonment, stretching from the church nearly tivo miles. The sub-soil is rocky or gravel- ]y, with a sandy, level surface, but in many places it is inter- sected by the channels of numerous streams. It affords ample space for exercising and manceuvering the whole of the troops in garrison, who, for two or three months in the cool season, are usually out once or twice a week ; the butts for artillery practice are constructed on its west side, and it is bounded on three sides by the race course and public roads, which as in other parts of the cantonment, are planted with rows of trees, some being of a very large size ; these roads form the fashio- nable morning and evening ride. The race course is of am- ple extent, hut rather sandy in some places; and the stand is now in ruins, there having been no public races for many years. Public rooms. Public rooms, raised and supported by volunta- ry contribution, are placed in a centrical situation a little to the west of the cavalry lines. They contain a subscription library, well supplied with books, and periodical publications ; and a reading room. ihipes °f w°r* St John’s Church, a handsome building, is situ- ated close to the general parade, on the north-west face, it is rather distant from the Pootoor side of the cantonment, and is nearly three miles from the fort; it affords ample accommo- dation for the European inhabitants and troops ; divine ser- vice being performed regularly twice on Sunday. The church- yard is a spacious enclosure thickly studded with the tombs of Europeans. This church is rendered interesting as the place at which Bishop Heber preached his last sermon, his philan- thropic labours having been suddenly terminated at Trichino- poly on the 3d April 1826; and his remains are entombed near the altar, a mural tablet with a short and simple epitaph, marking the spot.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28270216_0232.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
