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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    gallon, while the latter in foi’ni of carbonate scarcely exceeils 4 grains in the gallon. The consideration of these facts renders it evident that the Ramandroog spring should be quite as beneficial as that of Cheltenham and other places, and invalids who are in the habit of partaking of it, assure me, that it excites the appetite, aids digestion and checks nausea and vomiting. I have carefully examined this spring and consider that it will be a highly advisable measm-e to guard it more care-fully than has hitherto been done. Measures should be adopted to receive the water as it flows direct from the side of the hill, and not, as is now tlie custom, after it has received vegetable impurities and imbibed oxygenfrom the atiuf)sphere, depositing its salts as it undergoes decomposition along the channel which carries it away. The average temperature of the Droog very much resembles that of Bangalore, but the climate is much more equable and the variation of the thennometer less. Throughout the jea,r it is most agreeable to- the feelings, very salubrious, and imparts elasticity and health to the constitution. From its solitary position, even in the hottest seasons, the air reaches it fresh, larified by the elevation,—not obstructed by high walls, rocks or jungles, not heated by passing over a large extent of table-land, and not rendered impure by the absorption of emanations from town filth. ])uring the months of March, April and May, when at Bellary the heat is constant and the thermometer ranging from 96° to 100° in the shade, it seldom exceeds 84° in the houses on the Droog. The mean temperature and fall of rain is exhibited in the following table. Months. Tempera- ture. Fall of rain. Months. October 770 14-17 vVpril... November 7.5° May ])ccembcr. ... 74° •11 June January 74° ,Julv February 88° • • • August ' March 80° •15 September ... ) Mean t emperatur 0 being 77'9. Tempera- ture. Fall of rain. 79° 2-8 84° 2-8 76° •16 77° 16-10 74° 12-10 72° 4-16 Total.., 55-11 no mornings and evenings are always cool and delightful to the fee mgs, am all who have visited the hill agree in one sentiment; that eve ^i»en the temperature of the thermometer rises higher tliari ordinary n mconvmiience is experienced. On the occasion of my visit to the hill i*^' the Royal Artillery and 1st Royals, who, iiin Sr f. 1 ^ reduced to death’s door from dysentery n ecunderabad without, I then conceived, much prospect of recoveiu now, -what a marvellous change,—they assured me that with th SKRIES I. Skctios Vt. Temjieratura and luiu-fallw Salubrity*