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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    SERIES VII. Sbution III. 7. In a report by the late Inspector General of Hospitals, Dr. Burke it is asserted, that during a period of thirty years, the cost to the State on account of loss of life amongst British soldiers at this station, estimating each soldier at £100, amounted to £ 1,50,CC0. 8. While the men in barracks suffer so dreadfully, the Officers of the Kegiment and the other European inhabitants of the Cantonment are exempted from the same' grave form of disease; the few cases which occur amongst them being of a much milder character. 9. The European Artillery stationed at the distance of a mile and a half from the barracks are also quite healthy, nothing can be more objectionable, sanitarily considered than the construction of their barracks and hospitals. These are even worse than the buildings occupied by the European Infantry, but being placed on a high and healthy locality, the maladies which afflict the men usually yield to treatment. 10. That this exemption is notan occasional or accidental one, is shown by the subjoined table exhibiting in contrast the sanitary state of the Corps occupying the European Artillery and Infantry barracks from the year 1837, to the present date. .European •c to a CJ u 0 X Years. EQ r., to a fcO C3 0 0 > — > W < < 1837 120^, n 1838 96|^ 8 1839 96^, 53 1840 I04i1, 1841 115^1 4 1842 104^ 9 in 18.13 101 2 1844 93 1845 80 32 1846 159 72 1847 146 1848 158 1849 179 1850 170 1851 176 4 1852 186 H 1853 150 52 1854 84 6 1855 1153 6,'t 1856 175 8 1857 134 63 18^8 95 62 Avcrnge. 131j •'7t s § o ® c3 <U •C O 258 204 162 169 153 110 77 108 75 128 2i2 253 264 252 188 2i8 206 128 196 311 243 140 186 5 5 6 0 4 2 0 6 0 6 6 2 4 5 1 5 0 2 4 5 2 3 of o s-s ft. rt 51 53 0 3.1 12 0 6.1 3] 2J 'll 1 0 3.1 2? '1 3A ^ European Infantry. r. c 0 o ol, tt) eiiS 0 (A X . b 03 c 0 (Q X , s 5 d 0 ® s to to s ns p d 9 'ft u > ,55 5 0 d 0 <5 <1 H 851 91 1,463 125 728-J l,3l6 52 71 6302 92 1,172 37 604, 9 1,256 32 52 8.-53i 73 1,859 33 31 945.i 72 1,773 49 51 824 9i 1.608 90 92 !I01 73 1,526 58 61 1,008 '5.2 1,445 30 2ft 924 H 1,790 62 6i( 1,052 n . l,7l9 37 3.3 1,099 1,633 29 22 431 H 85 0 0 980 6 1,663 22 . 21 988 73 1,958 62 61 964 7 1,781 5 1 905 72 1,580 12 Bi 637 7 1,659 36 5§ . 852 102 1,961 18 812 53 1,302 10 1,067 81 1,75S 20 ift 1,186 1 * 1,161 no •02 8882*, 1 7:» MT '1,523}t 42 5^
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