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       The system of erecting grass huts for the purpose of accommodating men detained while
en route to join their corps, and a hospital of the same materials, but of larger dimensions,
for the reception of any taken ill, answered satisfactorily, and isolated such cases during the
past season. The quality of the water that was used by the party of recruits, who had come
from an infected district and were predisposed by fatigue of the march, may have been one
of the factors and may have contributed to the development of the disease; but, otherwise, as
far as could be judged, the affection was imported from the infected districts, and the
establishment of quarantine tended to limit the disease.

H. M.'s 16TH REGIMENT N. I.

MHOW.—In Medical Charge of Surgeon A.N.E. RIDDELL; Strength 646.

       H. M.'s 16th Regiment N. I. marched from Ahmadnagar on Mhow, on the 3rd and 5th
of January 1872, arriving at the latter station on the 23rd of the same month. Nothing
particularly worthy of notice occurred on the march.

Average strength.

       On the 6th of March the right wing was sent on detachment duty to Indore, where it
remained till the 14th September. Average strength of the regiment,
Europeans 8, natives 646. Average strength of the wing at Indore,
Europeans 2, natives 263.

Sickness and Mortality.

       The health of the corps has been tolerably good during the
year—average number of daily sick 207.

       There have been 917 admissions into hospital. The principal diseases and admissions
were as follows:—

       Chicken-pox 10, measles 1, fevers 319, rheumatism, acute 9, chronic 34, lumbago 19,
venereal 15, diseases of the eye 18, diseases of the lungs 64, diseases of the intestines 65,
diseases of the cellular tissue 22, cutaneous diseases 73, debility 29, burns and scalds 119,
wounds, contusions, &c., affecting various parts 179.

       One case of mania occurred. The patient was sent to Colaba Lunatic Asylum.
There were no cases of small-pox.

       There have been twelve deaths: 5 from cholera, 1 from intermittent and 1 from remittent
fever, 1 from acute diarrhœa, 1 from dysentery, 1 from bronchitis, 1 from pneumonia, 1
from debility, after recovery from intermittent fever, with ulcer, the sequelæ of hypodermic
injection of quinine, at Indore.

       The number of admissions from fever has been slightly in advance of the average of the
three preceding years. The greatest number of admissions from it were in September, when
52 cases occurred, and in October, when 68 were admitted.

       The disease was of the malarial type, and, generally, yielded readily to the treatment
employed, viz., quinine and liquor arsenicalis—the latter in 15 minim doses, in some bitter
infusion. I found this treatment satisfactory.

       Cholera appeared in the surrounding districts in April. A sepoy returning from furlough
was admitted on the 14th of April and died 28 hours after admission. The other four cases
were treated in the cholera camp, outside cantonment limits, not in the regimental hospital.

       The measures adopted by the authorities to prevent the admission into cantonments of
people ill with cholera, were a police cordon and quarantine of not less than 48 hours. Tem-
porary hospitals were erected outside cantonment limits, in which cases were treated. Many
of the cases which occurred, were men returning from furlough, who contracted the disease on
the road.

       In the month of October, four cases of ordinary ulcers took on a sloughing action. Per-
haps the cause may have been the crowded state of the hospital, due, firstly, to increase in