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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    r ToNUIIOO. 333 H, M. 69th Regiment of Foot. ] Surgeon H. G. Gordon, m. n. 1 Assistant Surgeon J. R- Crawford. i Assistant Surgeon J* H. Whittaker. » Do. do. F. Madden. j ii 2nd Apothecary F. Pearl. j Assistant Apothecary J. Wayne. i 2nd Dresser Anasthavasagum. J 2nd Regiment M. N. I. _ Assistant Surgeon B. T. Snffrein. ( Do. Apothecary C. L. Brown, f 2nd Dre.sser Appavoo, on other dufcy.J Elevati Detail and Sapper Hospital. ^ Assistant Surgeon B. T. Snffrein, l (2nd Native Infantry.) t 2nd Dresser Rhamany. ) Jail Hospital. ) Surgeon. H. G. Gordon, (H. Ms’. 69 th). ^ ( Native Doctor, Ahdool Ivurreem. ) Latitude 18° 56' nortli. Longitude 96°, 57' east. Average annual rain fall 76 inches. Thermjmeirical observations^ SERIES X. Section III. Max. Min. Mean. 100° 60° 75° of feet. ation above the sea 280 feet. Civil and Military station on the eastern side and vicinity. The frontier of British Burmah occupies an excellent position on the right bank of the Sittang river, on an open undulating elevated plateau of gravel and sand, with a clayey sub-soil. It is distant from Ava about 200 and from the frontier line about thirty-five miles. By the direct line to the sea, the distance is 160, but by the winding route of Sittang it exceeds 260. To the east, north-east and south-east, are the mountains of the rod Karcens and other hill tribes. The nearest ranges distant from fifteen to twenty-five miles, possess an altitude reaching to 5,000 feet; but some of the more distant attain an elevation of 7,000 feet above Marine level. The Yoma range lies some forty miles to the west. Tonghoo was first occupied in February 1853. Sanitarily considered the situation of the Cantonment has been judiciously chosen. Running north and south about a mile on the bank of the Sittang, the bed of which docs not become exposed, it extends about half a mile inland. It i.s very much to this prudent selection of the site that this station surpasses 'Ihayetrayo in salubrity. The ground descends in the direction of the native town, the northern and western outskirts of Cantonment. This natural channel for the drainage of the place is full of irregular hollows, Meterological observations.
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