Observations on the evidence contained in the stational reports submitted to her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Observations on the evidence contained in the stational reports submitted to her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India / by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their sanitary condition provided for; and they had no larger proportion of ' constantly sick' than the troops at home. VIII. Native Lines. Native troops have no barrack accommodation, no doubt a most excellent thing for their health. They have hutting money (very little), and make their own huts, which are so badly built as to ensure thorough ventilation, being often indeed only open sheds in compartments. But little or no pains are taken to make them put up these huts in any regular order; they are crowded, or rather huddled, together and without drainage of any kind. They are always damp, and the men always sleep in malaria. When they have families the huts are too small, because the hutting money is too small. Native troops have no rations, and stint them- selves of proper food in order to hoard their pay. They are. almost invariably temperate, and have little or no liver disease, whilst the British troops are decimated with it. So far as can be learned from disease statistics, native troops are far more moral than British. Except schools, no means whatever of instruction, occupation, or amusement are provided for them. They are, in fact, stipendiaries receiving a day's pay for a day's work, with their uniform, but they are not what we should understand by troops pro- vided for by the State.