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The only other District in which enteric fever appeared as a localised epidemic was the Southern, in which, at Hilsea, nine men of the F Battery, 16th Brigade, Royal Artillery, all residing in one particular set of rooms in the barracks, were successively attacked. The first man taken ill was admitted into hospital on the 19th of September, and the last on the 31st October; four men were attacked within 24 hours of each other.
— Army Medical Department Report For The Year 1874, Volume XVI (1874). Harrison and Sons, London. source
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Surgeon-General Mouat, V.C., C.B., reports that “the general health of the troops serving in the Southern District during the year 1875 has been very good. While the admissions and average daily sick have been higher than last year, the mortality has been less. No local or other causes of disease have been noted as injuriously affecting the health of the troops at the various stations of the district, with the exception of a few cases of typhoid fever at Hilsea, attributable, it is believed, to the use of sewage as manure. The matter was brought to the notice of the military and local authorities, and the nuisance, although mitigated, has not been altogether abandoned. On all Government farms the practice has ceased.”
— Army Medical Department Report For The Year 1874, Volume XVI (1874). Harrison and Sons, London. source