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The masses of men, women, and children in „these Barracks, is 

 another cause of the unhealthiness experienced generally in them by 

 the troops. There are no separate accommodations for the women and 

 children. The doors and windows are jealousied. 



The cold weather here was generally ushered in by severe hepatic 

 and dysenteric affections. And in the hot season there were severe 

 ardent fevers, very sudden in their operation, and often terminating in 

 apoplexy. 



In His Majesty's 13th Light Infantry for the period of two years, 

 for 1830 and 1831 last, at Dinapore, the average proportion of deaths 

 to strength was, 



Officers 1*79 per cent per annum. 



Men 384 



Women 423 



Children 1237 



The facility with which the men could obtain toddy, and dele- 

 terious liquors in excess, was one great source of disease and mor- 

 tality, as also the difficulty of confining the men within bounds, 

 there being no enclosure to the Barrack compound. 



The 13th being a Light Infantry corps, their movements were more 

 jikely to expose them to profuse perspiration, and consequently to 

 more frequent alterations of heat and cold, with the usual bad effects. 



Boglipore. 

 In the Station of Boglipore the Barracks formerly occupied by 

 His Majesty's 3rd Buffs, were merely a set of buildings erected tem- 

 porarily in 1825 as stables for some Native Cavalry, and were very 

 inimical to health. 



Ghazeepore. 

 The Station of Ghazeepore appears to hold a middle station as to 

 healthiness. The soil is readily permeable by the rain falling on its 

 surface, which sinking down to a very considerable depth before it finds 

 a hard bottom to detain it, is soon out of reach of superficial evaporation, 

 &nd cannot afford the constant supply of moisture necessary in co- 

 operation with other agents to produce the maturity of marsh mias- 

 mata. From the continuation of these circumstances it might a priori 

 be thought that the Station possesses to a great degree an immunity 

 from marsh miasmata. 



