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 IX. Section II. death of the one would bo a gain to the State, that of the other would entail a burden in the shape of a pension to his lieir. The sick are accommodated in a bTiilding in one of the main streets of the town. It is badly ventilated, has low roofs, and has not sufficient space for the sick of the Artillery and Infantry. A low wall separates the hospital from the Artillery Barracks, and there is a communicating door between the two back courts to enable the men from the barracks to get water from the well in the hosjiital court. There is also a r connecting open sewer Avhich carries the washings, &c., from the Artil- lery court and cook-room, past the hospital; added to this, the privies are above and close to the well, and on the slope of the hill, beyond the privies, the dead of the community are interred. Thus the surface water cannot but percolate through the open ground and pass into the well. In communication with the local authorities, I learn that it has been in contemplation] for some years to erect new barracks and hospital, But the construction of these has been postponed from year to year. It is my duty earnestly to solicit the support of the Principal Inspector General to urge on the authorities to provide wholesome accommodation for the IMilitary Garrison of the Settlement. SEC'IION III. Singapore. Seitiok III. Topography. Singapore is an Island off Point Romania, the extremity of the [alayan peninsula, from which it is separated by a narfow strait, in many arts not exceeding half a mile in width ; this channel was at one time sedby ships proceeding to China from India, Ihe average length of 10 Island is twenty-five miles, its breadth eleven, its superficial area ,vo hundred and seventy-five, and its circumference sixty miles. The irfaceof the Island towards the interior, averages from twenty to thirty jet above the sea, it is gently undulating, and consists of brown tenacious lay mixed with vegetable mould and sand. Low hills are numerous over he plain varying from 50 to 200 feet in height. Booketema, a hill on he centre of the Island ascends to 517 feet. The superficies of these ills is a fine clay, beneath are masses of laterite and sandstone. Like the other Islands in these Straits, vegetation here is most rofuse. The dense primeval forest, which at one time clothed its surface, ns now given place to extensive buildings, and cultivation for many
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