Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria : medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments., jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862 / by Duncan Macpherson.

  • MacPherson, Duncan, M.D., 1812-1867.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria : medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments., jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862 / by Duncan Macpherson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REiuEs IT. ventilation and freedom of passage. Tlic prevailing disease in the Regi. skitioxi. fever, chiefly of the intermittent type so common to natives on the Mysore plateau. The Regiment have lost tiventy men during the past official year ; eleven being from cholera. All native troops are pecu- liarly liable to fevers on their first arrival at Bangalore, particularly when they come from the coast. Regiments coming from the north as from Kamptee, Secunderabad &c., suffer less severely. These are points for consideration at the period of the usual annual reliefs. Fort Dispensary. The Fort Dispcusary is intended for the temjtorary relief of those who may be taken suddenly ill in the Fort; all serious cases being at once transferred to cantonments. The strength of the garrison, including Ordnance Department, is 402 ; nearly one-half of whom consist of Euro- peans. Medical arrange* nients under the Coramwsioner of Mviore. p o <— 3 Through the courtesy of the Surgeon to the Mysore Commissioner, I have had an opportu- nity of examining the establishments under the Commissioner of Mysore, quoted in the margin. The Cantonment Hospital in which the poor are fed and treated, is a succession of airy well-raised apartments, each capable of receiving from fifteen to twenty sick. In construction and arrangements, it is superior to the buildings of our Native sick f Cantonment Dispensary and Bazar Hos- j pital. j Cantonment Jail and Hospital. ] Petta Hospital, Sudra and Brahmins, j Lunatic Asylum. Leper do. ^ § I Sudra Hospital, fcc'p < Brahmin do. fJail do. soldiers. The Pettah Hospital situated near the Fort is better still. It consists of a range of commodious well-raised and well-ventilated apartments for males and females of different castes ; there being separate wards for females of good character ; and adjoining to it, in the same compound, is a hospital for high caste Brahmins. On the occasion of my visit there were 174 under treatment. The average daily “ in-patients” treated is ICO ; average daily “ out-patients” 65. The prevailing diseases fever, bowel disorders, dropsies and venereal, and the average operations, of some mag- nitude, performed is sixty annually. In the Lunatic Asylum, the insane of the province arc accommo- dated. The males work at rope-making or gardening; the females grin