The oriental sore, as observed in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.
- Timothy Richards Lewis
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The oriental sore, as observed in India : a report / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![was first boiled and then filtered. The measures re^ardins: the water-supply of the native troops were apparently direct- ed, as has always been the case on occasions demanding improvement in it, to putting the branch of the Jumna Canal which runs through the city, from which they can obtain a supply, into good order; but attention was also ])aid to cleaning wells, &c. During 1865 there were some cases of the disease in the 98th Regiment and the 25tli Native Infantry, but the number was relatively very small; so few, indeed, and occurring so late in the year, that it was reported on the 4th September that not a single uudoubtcdcase had occurred either among natives or Euro- peans. Both regiments were, no douht, new to the station, so that much of this sudden disappearance of the disease is to be ascribed to want of time for its develop- ment ; still it was during the first and only year of the 38th’s location in Delhi, 1864, that it suffered so excessively. During 1866 there is no special notice of the occurrence Facts relative to I860 *and sores amoug the troops *, 1867. and in so far as the European regi- ment was concerned, the admission rates for abscess and ulcer in that year were so low, that the disease may be as- sumed not to have prevailed to any great degree. The battery of Artillery and the 25th Native Infantry, however, show excessive admissions for the same year. During 1867 the European troops were supplied with drinking water from the Jumna and the Putthur Ghuttee well,—the wing of the 79th drawing their water from the former, and the battery of Artillery from the latter source. The supply for the natives was obtained, as before, from the canal and from wells. IMany of the men obtained their water from the Khyrattee Gate well: this water was of very bad quality, and caused dyspeptic symptons and diarrhoea in those using it. A cer- tain number of the men, then as always, no doubt went to the river for water, but the distance at which the Jumna lies from the lines—f ths of a mile—naturally prevented its general use. The Medical Officer of the 25th Punjab Native Infantry, writing in 1867, says “ the canal water is of fair quality, but that obtained from the Khyrattee Gate well is had. | I have observed an increase in the number of Delhi sores when the canal supply was stopped, and also a tendency to spread in those sores which were healing. Turning to Table XI, we find that the admission rate of the wing of the 79th, which had only arrived that year in Delhi, from abscess and ulcer is very low, but that the rates](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28709615_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
