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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    ■were, moreover, situated immediately under the hills to the south, in a posi- tion to the rear of the village of Toingo, -where the malaria engendered and wafted thither, concentrated and poisoned the atmosphere. The troops garrisoning Meaday, as per margin, send all their in forest jungle. A few mi hills which supply Rangoon with chunam. The hare peaks of these hills have been selected by the Burmese as prominent points for pagodas and grotesque figures. Meaday like Prome is on the left bank of the river, on an elevated table land sloping to the water. It, too, has not turned out salubrious. The Burmese assert that the left bank has always been unhealthy, while the'opposite is the case with the right. They call the river “ the air purifier,” and declare that the atmosphere from the dense forests on the “ Yoma” becomes purified in passing over to the right bank, where all their chief towns, except Prome, are built. Meaday is about to be abandoned, but more on political than sanitary grounds. ] Company IT. M’p. USth Eegt. .S „ 11th Regt. M. N.I. Force in Gan iaon. Meaday. 11th Regt. M.N.I. THAYETMYO. Military Force and Medical Establishments in Garrison. C Company 3rd Battalion Horse Battery. Surgeon Major C. Timins. 2nd Apothecary J. Miller. 3rd Company H. M’s. 68th Regi-'j Latitude 19° 20' North, Longitude 95° 12’ East. ment of Foot. Assistant Surgeon C. Williams. )> Assistant Apothecary T. Hall, I ] 1th Regiment M. N- L J Average annual rain fall. Inches 40 to 50.
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