Malarious fever / By E. Hare, Esq., Inspector General of Hospitals, Bengal.

  • Hare, E. (Edward), 1812-1897.
Date:
1864
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    ^t.- MALARIOUS f EVER BY E. HARE, Esq., DEPUTY IX3PK0TOE aENBEAL OF HOSPITALS, BENaAIi. The result of the experiment which I performed in the General Hospital, Calcutta, by order of Lord Dalhousie, in 1849-50, was published March 31st, 1851, by the Medical Board, and a copy sent to every Medical Officer in the service. Lord Dalhousie, on the successful conclusion of this experiment, requested the Commander-in-Chief to give me a European Regiment, with which I might continue my experiment on the treatment of Fever and Dysentery. I was accordingly posted, while still an Assistant Surgeon, to the charge of the 1st Bengal Fusiliers, and my treatment was very soon put to an extreme test, on the Regiment being sent on active service to Burraah during the war. My treatment was^ again most fully tried during the siege of Delhi, in the mutiny of 1857, when my Regiment, the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, was encamped in tents before Delhi, during the hot weather and rains. I left my European Regiment in 1861 for England, and since my return to India, having been promoted to Deputy Lispect- or, and my experimental practice thus terminated, I have obtained the returns of the mortality of my. two Regiments, during the nine years I was in charge of them, and finding it to be for Fever* one death in every 211-19 cases treated, or less than half per cent, mortality. The usual mortalityf amongst European Soldiers in the Bengal Presidency having been for Fevers, one death in every 32^ cases treated, and for the Euro- pean Regiments in Calcuttsj,, (see Martin 1861, p. 88,) 1 in 30-| Fever cases treated. I think it my duty to state more fully * See Table No. 5 at the end of this Paper. t Sec Dr. Norman Chevera's Table, prepared in the Office of the Medical Board, for hia very valuable review of the Means of preserving the health of Hv/ropean Soldiers in India.