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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![[ 20 ] liinushccl by the Artillery and 25tli Native Infantry are again very high. During 18C8 there -were a considerable number of Occurrence of Delhi eore cascs of Del 111 sorc in the wing of during 1868 among 79th He- tllC 79tll, 57 CaSCS and 9 SUSpicioUS cases having occurred between De- cember 1867 and February 1869, according to Dr, A. Smith. These would appear to have chiefly occurred towards the latter part of the year, as in February 1868 the Quarter Master General reported that Delhi boils seemed to have left the garrison. The water for ablution supplied to the Europeans was up to this date obtained from the wells in the Fort. During the same year, 1868, the Medical Officer of the 17th Native Infantry reported that “ the supply of water was irregularly given to the 17th E,egiment, and sometimes altogether stopped. As the wells in the lines sup- ply water only fit for ablution, the men are obliged to go to the river for drinking waterand that “ at all times the water-supply of the regiment is precarious.” The admission rates from abscess and ulcer in all three bodies of troops was very small for 1868, that of the 17th Native Infantiy, which had arrived in the station that year, being excep- tionally so, continued to occur among the wing of the 79th. The precise number of cases is not mentioned in any of the reports to which we have had access, but the admission rate from abscess and ulcer is considerably higher than it had been during the two pre- vious years. The admission rate of the Artillery was also high. No special information regarding the water-supply for the year is given, so that it may be presumed to have remained in the same state as before. With regard to the natives, the complaints regarding the water-supply are repeated; the scanty and irregular supply derived from the canal and the brackish nature of the wells in the lines being again commented upon. The supply from the canal is stated to have been regular and abundant for some months, but it is pointed out that this improvement is necessarily only of a temporary nature, as the demand on the canal for agricul- tural purposes during the hot weather must put an end to it. No special reference is made to Delhi sores, but the admis- sion rate of the regiment from abscess and ulcer is high, being nearly three times as great as during the previous year. During the course of 1869 cases of Delhi boil Facta regarding 1869.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28709615_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
