Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1854 – No. 9

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✨ Medical report on 65th Regiment

Consumption is rare in the regiment: during the past year only one case has been treated, the patient being now convalescent, and I have no doubt of his continuing to improve. From my experience, I can with confidence assert how well suited the climate of this Island is in arresting and removing the seeds of this truly fatal English disease.

Rheumatic affections appear much more prevalent in the United Kingdom, in the proportion of 5 to 1; all the cases of rheumatism which have come under my observation in this country have been comparatively mild; in no instance has a soldier been invalided from the effects of an attack of acute rheumatism.

Admissions from diseases of the brain have been nearly as high as in the United Kingdom; the deaths from this class have been 2, but one of these, as before stated, was from apoplexy.

The ratio of admissions from disease of the stomach and bowels are five times higher in the United Kingdom. I have never seen a pure case of acute dysentery in this country, or any form of it approaching in intensity the disease as it appears in tropical countries.

The causes which are productive of this great salubrity, I think may be arranged under three heads—

First, the constant winds to which we are subject act as purifying agents in cleansing and removing "malaria," the fertile source of all disease.

Second, the invigorating nature of the climate, the result of pure air.

Third, equability of temperature, our mean of the hottest month being about 66, hottest at London; 64; our coldest, 50, London, 37. To this short range of temperature we may attribute our exemption from fevers on the one hand, and chest diseases on the other.

R. K. PRENDERGAST,
Surgeon, 65th Regt.

Wellington, New Zealand,
May 14, 1854.

PRINTED BY C, AND J, ELLIOTT, AT THE "EXAMINER" OFFICE, NELSON.

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The Nelson Provincial Council Buildings (depicted) were constructed beginning with the laying of the foundation stone on 26 August 1859, with the first Council meeting held there on 30 April 1861.

The buildings served Nelson for over a century before being demolished on 12 September 1969.

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🏥 Statistical table of admissions and deaths in the 65th Regimental Hospital (continued from previous page)

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Dated14 May 1854
KeywordsMilitary, Hospital, Statistics, Wellington, 65th Regiment, Health, Climate, Disease
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R. K. Prendergast, Surgeon, 65th Regt.

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