the health of Troops in Arracan. 199 



The 68th N. I. had been for several years a healthy corps : 



it was in the cold weather of 1840-41 order- 

 68th N. I. 



ed down from Allahabad to the presidency, 



whence it was conveyed by sea to Khyouk Phyoo, none of 



the vessels making a long passage. It continued healthy on 



the way down, and immediately went into gobd lines, (i. e. 



better than those at Barrackpore, though not so good as the 



admirable new lines which are built on raised muchauns.) 



The climate agreed so well with this corps, that the men did not 



lose 2 per cent, per annum, and indeed became fat, as proved 



incontrovertibly by most of them having to get their clothes 



let out. 



The 47th N. I., in the beginning of 1841, its second year at 

 Barrackpore, suffered very severely losing 

 forty men in four months. It left Barrack- 

 pore on the 14th of October 1841, and was encamped for 

 about a week at Balloo Ghat during most oppressive wea- 

 ther. The men, a great proportion of whom were young, 

 were then crowded into transports, most of which made a 

 tedious voyage of about sixteen days to Khyouk Phyoo; a 

 few men died on the way down, and many men, especially 

 Hindoos, who eat hardly any thing on board-ship, landed in 

 a very feeble state. 



On their arrival, they were very properly encamped (there 

 Nature of being no lines for them,) near the sea beach, 



encampment. m an a ^ r y situation, and on a dry sandy piece 

 of ground, with their tents pitched over raised muchauns. It 

 would be impossible to select any piece of ground less exposed 

 to any obvious malarious influences. 



At first their admissions into the 68th hospital to which they 



were sent, were few, chiefly cases of debility, and occurring 



in young men, as indeed was the case all along. Slight cases 



of fever began to be common ; the patients were cured of their 



fevers, but did not regain their strength. 



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