The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

78th Regiment. The 78th and 86th Regiments arrived from England in August 1842. The first was sent to Poona for twelve months, and then to Kurrachee. There, in the quarter ending December 1843, it lost forty-three men, chiefly from fever and dysentery. In the third quarter of 1844, the regiment, divided betwixt Sukkiir and Hydrabad, on the Indus, lost 231 men, — 141 from remittent fever, the remainder from bowel complaints chiefly. In the last quarter of 1845, the 78th had been removed to Bombay, and lost 276 men, the predominant cause being, not fever, as in the third quarter, but acute and chronic dysentery, to which 244 of the deaths were referred, and six more to diarrmhea, leaving only sixteen for all other diseases. The regiment has been stationed at Belgaum since December 1847, and has there enjoyed excellent health.