Poona Division.
Years.
Average
strength.
Average
daily
sick.
Admis-
sions.
Deaths.
1872
...
... 8,577
319.7
10,703
51
1873
...
... 8,209
250.4
7,334
35
1874
...
... 8,197
241.2
6,855
36
1875
...
... 8,145.9
224.2
7,607
40
1876
...
... 7,448.6
220.4
7,249
42
7, In the Poona divisionthe average
strength was 7,448.6—a decrease of 697.3
on that of the previous year. The aver-
age daily sick. was 220 .4, and the ad-
missions were 7,249. The percentage
of admissions to strength was 97 slight-
ly more than that for 1875. There was
a mortality of 42, as compared with one
of 40 for the preceding year.
8. The average strength of the army in the Northern division was 8,937.3—
Northern Division.
Years.
Average
strength.
Average
daily
s i c k .
Admissions. Deaths.
1872
...
... 8,054
427.4
15,735
6 8
1873
...
... 8,450
392.9
13,498
52
1874
...
... 8,362
376.2
12,426
53
1875
...
... 8,547.1
318.2
10,714
105
1876
...
... 8,937.'3
365.5 11,177
68
an increase of 390.2. The average daily
sick was 365.5. The admissions were
11,177, or a percentage on strength of
125.1. For the year previous the per-
centage of admissions to strength was
125 . 3. The deaths numbered 68, as
against 105 for the preceding year, the
excess being due to cholera.
9, In the Sind division the average strength was 2,990 .4, exceeding that of
Sind Division.
Years .
Average
strength.
Average
daily
sicky
Admis-
sions.
s Deaths.
1872
...
... 2,975
148 .0
5,040
74
1873
...
... 2,950
92.7
3,690
50
1874
...
... 2,848
84.9
3,459
55
1875
...
... 2,837.5
104.9
3,603
32
1876
...
... 2,999.4
142.2
5,129
92
1875 by 152 . 9. The average daily sick
was 142.2, as compared with an average
of 104.9 for the preceding year. The ad.
missions amounted to 5,129—an excess
over those for the year before of 1,526,
and an excess over the average for the
past three years of 1,545. The percent-
age of admissions to strength was 171.5,
while that for the year 1875 was 126.9.
The deaths numbered 92 last year they
were only 32. This increased mortality was due mainly to the outbreak of
cholera amongst the troops of the Sind Frontier Field Force, and to the unusually
high death-rate for lung disease in the troops stationed in Upper Sind.
10, The general health of the army belonging to the Presidency, Poona, and
General health.
Northern divisions has been fair. Malarious fevers, how
-ever, especially in the regiments at Mehidpur, Nus-
seerabad, Poona, and Surat, were somewhat more prevalent than was the case
last year, but not to such an extent as to lessen in any great degree the average
general health and efficiency of the troops in these divisions. The general health
of the Sind Army was by no means satisfactory. There was a very considerable
increase in the number of admissions for malarious fevers, more particularly at
Hyderabad and Jacobabad. At the latter station the amount of sickness must,
under existing circumstances, continue to increase annually. It were well did no
political necessity exist for the retention of Jacobabad as a station for troops.
Repeated reports show its climate to be baleful. On purely sanitary grounds
its abandonment is, in my opinion, a necessity. As regards the influence exercised
by other diseases on the general health of the army in the three first-named divi-
sions, it does not perceptibly differ in degree from that of last year. In Sind,
however, the reverse is the case. A large increase in the number of admissions
for rheumatic affections, lung and bowel diseases, and cholera have told adversely
on the general health.
11. Amongst the diseases which caused the chief sickness and mortality in.
Malarious fevers.
the Bombay Army during the year 1876, malarious
fevers hold the first place. The total treated for these
diseases, out of a strength of 22,583, amounted to 12,528, as compared with a
total treated for the year previous of 10,566 in a strength of 22,819. The total
treated in the Presidency division, for malarious fevers, was 1,490, in the Poona