Observations on the nosological arrangement of the Bengal medical returns, with a few cursory remarks on medical topography and military hygiene / by Fred. J. Mouat.
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the nosological arrangement of the Bengal medical returns, with a few cursory remarks on medical topography and military hygiene / by Fred. J. Mouat. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![[ «9 ] known strength, and calculated under ordinary circum- stances to last a specified length of time. The data for these calculations could readily be furnished from the books of the Hon’ble Company’s Dispensary, and the average expenditure of at least twenty-five years be taken as the mean amount likely to he consumed. The same should he drawn up for all detachments of European or Native Troops, and issued according to the duration of their absence from Head-quar- ters. Properly constructed boxes for holding the exact amount should be issued—so that in indenting upon the Dispensary the medical officer would only have to specify the number of men, women, and children under his charge, and the probable time for which the supply was required. The saving to the Exchequer by such a system, would only be equalled by its conveni- ence to the medical officer—who on first arriving in the country and being appointed to a charge, is always puzzled by the present complicated regulations. _r .. , „ , The last of the topics to which I Medical Codes. . shall refer is the want of uniformity between the Medical Codes of the three Presiden- cies, for which it would be difficult to find any reasons either on the ground of expediency or neces- sity, and which has operated and will continue to operate, prejudicially on the interests and advance- ment of the Company’s Medical Service in India. There are no less than three different scales of diet established; as many modes of conducting the duties of hospitals ; a like diversity in the forms of indenting, with trifling, unimportant distinctions throughout, which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21947612_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
