2012, ISBN: 9781130063868

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Altro …

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...the plains, the 26th Foot at Morar, having low proportions in all the four particulars, may be considered to have been the healthiest corps of Infantry in 1874. SANITARY REPOBT. Dr. Crawford, officiating for the Surgeon-General and Principal Medical Officer of the British Forces serving in Bengal, reports:--The sanitary defects at the several stations in the Bengal Command are stated in detail in the Annual Reports of administrative Medical Officers of Circles, from which the following summary is compiled. Presidency Circle.--Calcutta.--Limited hospital accommodation for women and children; cook-houses of Dalhousie Barracks unpleasantly close to the latrines; bad construction of Queen's Barracks for married people; objectionable state of latrine in south-west corner of fort--being on the effluent side of an open sewer--are the chief sanitary defects noticed. Bengal. Dum-Dum,--The introduction of municipality water; verandahs to east and west side of guard-room; better canteen accommodation; a gymnasium; and improved conservancy arrangements for native bazaar, outside but close to cantonments, are recommended. Barrachpore.--Barracks occupied by detachment 62nd Regiment scarcely waterproof; the hospital is an ©Id thatched building raised about three feet from the ground over a hollow basement chamber; the flooring of the wards is old and the planks widely separated, so that water and other fluids, as well as refuse of all kinds, pass down into the basement whence foul air escapes into the wards. The ventilation is defective, and the building is dilapidated and ill adapted for hospital purposes. A new hospital is required. The water supply is surface water collected into open tanks and largely impregnated with organic impurities. Much of the sickness at t... Weight:0.38 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 3/6/2012 0:00:00<