The convalescent depots : Murree its topographical and medical history / [Alexander Grant?].

  • Grant, Alexander, 1947-
Date:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
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    THE CONVALESCENT DEPOTS. MURREE; ITS TOPOGRAPHY AND MEDICAL HISTORY. India protected on her sea-board by the Fleets of Eng- land and the Ilon’ble Company, secure in lier interior by the conquest or gradual absorption of nearly every power- ful native state, is most open to attack on her extensive North-Western Frontier, from whence warlike hordes have poured upon her plains in successive invasions from time immemorial. Along all that varied and picturesque tract of country, with its numerous rivers and rich Derails and Doabs, the main body of the Indian Army is now stationed, chiefly in large cantonments, where the various types of tropical diseases are very rife, and cause a considerable amount of mortality and suffering. But, in the near neighbourhood of most of these cantonments, there are ranges of lofty moun- tains which, of late years, have been applied to the noblest purposes in the conservation and restoration of the health of the European Troops; and hence we have thought that a Topographical account and medical history of the convales- cent depots would be interesting and useful, not onty to our medical brethren generally, but also to the public at large ; for the subject is one, the importance of which in a sanitary point of view, can hardly be overstated, as affecting the well- being of nearly the whole of the European portion of the Indian community. The advantages of the Hill Stations have been variously estimated by different observers: by some, the climate has been extolled with an unquestioning credulity as equal to that of the most favored portions of Europe; by others, it Note.—This account of Murree has been compiled from the Reports of Drs. Macbeth and Inglis, of H. M.’s Service, and Dr. J. B. S. Brown of the Bengal Establishment : wo beg also to express our obligations to Mr. Thornton, the Commissioner of Jhelum, for a “ short sketch” of the station, ably drawn up by Mr. Delmerick, the Head Clerk in his Office.