CENTRE OR PRESIDENCY DISTRICT.

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       Diet. —Vegetables have not been abundant in Madras during the past eight months. Rice,
dholl, and even ragi have become very dear, though the amount imported into Madras, especially
as far as rice is concerned, is far beyond its normal quantity. The troops have received
compensation money proportionately as the price of rice increased.

Diet.

       Duty. —The duties consisted in the ordinary drill, parade and stable-work, with mounting
of regimental guards.

Duty.

       The average number of nights in bed per week gives 3.7 as the mean annual average.
The duties have not been prejudicial to the health of the men.

       Epidemic. —Cholera did not occur.

Epidemic.

       Hospital water-supply. —The water supply has been abundant, and since the supply of the
filter for hospital use, has been apparently of good potable kind.

Hospital
water-
supply.

       General conclusions. —The health of the regiment has been good during the year.

General
conclusions.

       Deputy Surgeon-General W. J. vanSomeren, M.D., inspected this corps on the
26th June 1877, and reports as follows:—

       Sanitary condition of lines. —The so-called Body Guard lines are for horses, not men; the
latter living in Triplicane principally, and in Chintadrepettah, Nursingapooram, and
Poodoonettah as well. Cleanliness characterizes the place.

Sanitary
condition of
lines.

       Sanitary condition of latrines, guard-room, &c. —The latrines are clean, tar is used in them.
Excreta are received in tar vessels furnished with earth, and removed twice daily to a pit on the
Cooum bank, adjacent to the burial ground. In one room of the old hospital, furnished with
benches, two cots, &c., the children of the farriers and buglers are taught, a strange and unsuitable
arrangement. The guard-room, though dark and dismal-looking, is clean. Absence of the Quarter-
master Serjeant, who has the keys, prevented my seeing the cells. I have since seen the cells;
they are only fairly clean, and I have requested the Medical officer to inspect them periodically.

Sanitary
condition of
latrines,
guard-rooms,
&c.

       Conservancy of the neighborhood is certainly good landwards; but in the direction of
the Cooum the character and condition of that stream, or rather pool, are fatal to its being
described in the same terms. A country filter is now used in the hospital.

Conservancy.

       Hospital. —The building has been repaired and is clean. Its drainage, ventilation, accommo-
dation, lighting, and water-supply are unaltered. The latrine is in good condition, but faulty in
its construction as a resort for natives.

Hospital.

       Principal diseases. —Of 73 cases, 11 suffered from simple continued fever and 11 from
contusion, 5 from ulcer and 5 from bronchitis, which last disease occasioned the only death-
casualty of the year. Two men went away on sick leave during the year.

Principal
diseases.

10th Regiment Native Infantry.

STATION—MADRAS (PERAMBORE).

       The following return shows the rates of sickness, deaths, and invaliding, as
contrasted with previous years:—

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