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==Description in 1837==
The British barracks at Secunderabad were described by Dr A. Archibald Shanks, Regimental [[Surgeon]]of the Corps, in 1837 in the ''Madras Quarterly Medical Journal'' (the full description can be read [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vwQHAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0eTwnUwBQlmQrRl&client=firefox-a#PPA263,M1 here on Google Books]. He was stationed in the cantonment with the [[55th Regiment of Foot]] and describes the barracks to indicate how they have been the cause of extensive sickness and mortality amongst the troops.
He notes that the burial ground for HM troops is very nearby and "crowded with tombstones", with names totalling thousands of British soldiers. He states that records show that between 1804 and 1836 and average of 73 deaths occured per year.
