DISTRICT OF MALABAR AND CANARA.

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     Epidemic. — A mild epidemic of "dengue" fever prevailed in May

Epidemic.

     Hospital ventilation is perfect. There has been no overcrowding allowed in the ward.
During the prevalence of dengue a separate building was made use of in addition to the hospital
for the accommodation of the extra sick.

Hospital
ventilation.

     Hospital drainage. —The hospital privy is a small one and in it the principle of the dry-
earth conservancy is adopted.

Hospital
drainage.

     Water-supply good and sufficient.

Water-supply

     General conclusions. —With the exception of the mild outbreak of dengue in May last, the
general health of the corps, as a body, has been satisfactory.

General
conclusions.

     Deputy Surgeon-General J. Wilson inspected this detachment on the 9th
November 1876 and reports as follows:—

     Sanitary condition of the lines as to cleanliness, ventilation, &c. —The lines are clean
and sanitation carefully attended to. There are two latrines, and the night-soil and sweepings
carted away regularly and buried in a distant spot allotted for that purpose. The huts have
a cheerful appearance, each one having a little garden, generally containing fruit-trees, attached
to it. They are all thatched. The natural drainage of the lines is perfect, the soil being
extremely porous, but there are no artificial drains. Number of inmates in a hut, five.

Sanitary
condition of
the lines as to
cleanliness,
ventilation,
&c.

     Sanitary condition of latrines, &c. —There are no cess-pools or foul drains connected with
the latrines, the latter being merely matted enclosures. Coal-tar is not used.

Sanitary
condition of
latrines, &c.

     Rations. —Rice is rising in price.

Rations.

     Water-supply. —Water is plentiful; quality is unexceptionable.

Water-supply.

     Hospital. —The hospital is an excellent one, adapted for about 18 patients. It is well
ventilated by ridge ventilators, doors and windows. It is scrupulously clean and in good
repair. There is no artificial drainage, but, from the nature of the soil, natural drainage is
perfect.

Hospital.

     Deputy Surgeon-General J. Wilson inspected this corps on the 16th November
1876 and reports as under:—

     Sanitary condition of the lines as to cleanliness, ventilation, &c. —The huts are in good
repair but rather small. The lines are very clean and well-drained, both naturally and by
superficial drains, cut in the laterite soil.

Sanitary
condition of
the lines as to
cleanliness,
ventilation,
&c.

     Water-supply of excellent quality.

Water-supply.

     Hospital. —The building is large, clean, and well-ventilated, with good natural drainage.

Hospital.

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

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