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At the Colába Depôt I find a note in the Sanitary Report for 1879 that two
cases of enteric fever were admitted from the troop-ships, but no particulars are
given, and these cases are not entered in the returns obtained from the Surgeon
General's office.
I am indebted to Surgeon Major Codrington, A. M. D., in charge of the
Station Hospital, for the cases of the nine men who were admitted into it in 1882.
The first case was a Private of the 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, aged 20 years,
with 2 years' service, who was transferred on the 26th January from the
troop·ship Orontes on her arrival from the Cape. This on boardship was consi-
dered a case of simple continued fever, but the disease was changed to enteric
fever on admission into the Station Hospital at Colába. After a long illness the
man was discharged convalescent on the 3rd May.
No more cases occurred in the Dep6t until October. On the 28th of
that month the troop-ship Euphrates arrived in Bombay Harbour bringing troops
from Alexandria and Egypt, and eight men belonging to the 2nd Derbyshire
Regiment were landed with enteric fever. Of these two died and the remainder
recovered after a more or less protracted illness. Another man belonging to the
same Regiment was landed and it was thought he too was suffering from enteric
fever, but after death "the disease was changed to dysentery, as the port-mortem
examination showed there was no affection of the glands of the small intestine".
On the 20th December "a Corporal belonging to the 1st South Lancashire
Regiment was admitted into hospital. The man was 37 years of age, of 12
years' service, 10 of which he had passed in India and was taking his discharge
to the Colonies. He left Choubuttie in the Himalayas on 1st November, reached
Moradabad after a march of 12 days; left that station the next day for Shahje·
hanpur, where he stayed until the 21st and reached Colába on the 25th, having
halted on the way at Allahabad and Khundwa. He felt unwell at Allahabad with
diarrhoea and some fever, for which he got medicine. Did not come sick at
Colába as he had nothing to do and was anxious to get away as soon as he
could".
It will be thus seen that in none of the above cases was the disease con-
tracted in Bombay.
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