MYSORE DIVISION.
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Table showing the Rates of Mortality and of Average Daily Sick per Mille of Strength.
Stations.
Corps.
Ratio per 1,000 of Strength.
Died.
Average
Daily Sick.
Bangalore
Queen's Own Sappers and Miners ...
9.11
11.41
23rd Regiment W.L.I.
...
...
3.03
23.70
36th
do.
N.I. ...
...
...
6.11
13.47
Bellary ...
4th
do.
P.W.O.Light Cavalry.
4.06
19.28
21st
do.
N.I. ...
...
...
9.98
18.22
27th
do.
14.64
36.07
French Rocks
... 30th
do.
12.21
18.81
Mercara ...
... 28th
do.
24.42
35.65
Statement No. I exhibits in its first table the average strength during the past year of the
troops in the Mysore Division and the Ceded Districts together with the numbers admitted into
hospital, the mortality, the numbers invalided, and the average daily sick ; and in the second
table the ratios per thousand of the same facts in the last two years. In both military divisions
the admissions and average daily sick have been less than in the preceding year, but the
mortality was somewhat greater. The total loss from all causes of the troops in both military
commands during the past year has been 202, viz., 59 deaths and 143 pensioned and discharged,
being at the rate of 42.45 per 1,000 of strength. In the Mysore Division the decrement was
111, or at the rate of 34.31 per mille of strength. In the Ceded Districts it was 91, or at the rate
of 59.86 per mille of strength. In the preceding year the loss was 216, namely, 37 deaths and
179 pensioned and discharged. In the Mysore Division, the admissions have been at the rate
of 559 per thousand, and the mortality both in and out of hospital 12.67. In the Ceded Districts
the admissions have been 586.50 per thousand and the deaths in and out 11.82.
Statement No. II exhibits in two tables the same facts as they occurred in the different
regiments in the two military divisions. From these, it appears that the highest ratio of
admissions, excluding the garrison of Bangalore, whose average annual strength was only 12.59,
occurred in the 23rd Regiment Light Infantry at Bangalore.
Taking the admissions into hospital as the measure of the degree of unhealthiness of the
different regiments, they may be ranged in the following order, omitting the garrisons of Banga
-lore and Bellary, which consist of a few superannuated pensioners.
Admissions per
Mille of Strength,
23 rd Regiment L.I.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
765.34
28th
do.
N.I.
...
...
...
...
...
. . . ...
721.59
4th Light Cavalry
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
699.86
27th Regi ment N.I.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
698.16
30th
do,
, , ...
...
...
...
...
...
516.72
21st
do.
,, ...
...
...
...
...
... ...
...
382.82
36th
do,
,,
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
271.94
Although the numbers in the first four indicate a high rate of sickness, it is less (with the
exception of the cavalry corps) than in the previous year ; and the improvement in the case of
the 28th Native Infantry at Mercara is very marked, the admissions having been at the rate of
10.86 per mille in the preceding year. The improvement is doubtless due to the men being better
housed and also in some degree to their becoming acclimatized. The high sick rate of the 27th
at Bellary and the 23rd at Bangalore must be ascribed in the former to its antecedent history, and
in the latter partly to the same cause, and partly to the faulty position of the regimental lines.
If ranged in the order of mortality in each corps, they will stand as follows :—
28th Regiment N.I.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Per Mille.
24.42
27th
do. ,,
...
. ..
...
...
...
1 4 . 6 4
30th
do. ,,
...
...
...
...
... ...
...,
21st
do.
5.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1 2 . 2 4
9.98
Sappers and Miners
... ...
...
...
...
...
9.11
23rd Regiment L.I. ...
....
...
...
...
...
...
...
3 . 0 3
The 23rd Light Infantry, which heads the former list, comes last in the table of mortality.
The last table in this statement shows the rates of mortality and of average daily sick per
1,000 of strength at Bangalore, Bellary, the French Rocks, and Mercara.
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