Principal causes of sickness.
Mortality according to race.
Vaccination and re-vaccination.
General health and physique of
the men.
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There is accommodation for six beds for the battery in the hospital, and the verandah
could be utilized, if necessary ; no improvements have been
carried out in the building during the year. I have no recom-
mendation to make regarding the building itself, but the latrine should be removed to a
greater distance from the well, and the quarters for the hospital assistant might be improv-
ed, and better accommodation supplied for tha 2nd class servants.
The conservancy is attended to as well as possible, but there is sometimes irregularity
in the latrine accumulations being removed, in consequence
of the amount of work required to be done by the one cart.
The water is obtained from a well close to the hospital ; the water is good, and the
supply, as a rule, sufficient ; but the well is open to contamina-
tion from the proximity of the hospital latrine.
9. The return for the past year shows that, with an average strength of 120, there
were 84 admissions, being the total treated during the year,
there being none remaining from last year : of this number 1
died, 78 were discharged to duty, 2 were otherwise discharged,
and 3 remained in hospital at the close of the year.
The average daily number of sick
...
...
...
3.0
Percentage of ...
treated to strength
...
70.00
deaths to strength ...
...
...
.83
deaths to treated
...
...
...
1.19
showing a slight decrease as compared with 1875. Ague gave 24 admissions, against 32 last
year. No cases are entered under febricula, for which there were 19 admissions last year.
There was one case of remittent fever, which recovered. A case of cholera recovered.
Rheumatic affections gave 11 cases, one of which was of gonorrhœal origin, against 6 last
year. Primary syphilis gave 3 cases ; conjunctivitis gave 2 admissions against 4 last year.
Diseases of the respiratory organs gave 2 admissions against 3 last year ; dysentery gave 2
cases against 6 in 1875; contusions, sprains, &c., gave 17 admissions against 18 last year ;
none of them were severe.
10. One death took place in August from enteritis, caused by injuries received at gymnas-
t i c s ; t h e m a n d i e d t h e d a y a f t e r h i s a d m i s s i o n . A p o s t - m o r t e m
s h o w e d t h e u s u a l a p p e a r a n c e s
of enteric inflammation, also an enormously enlarged spleen and liver. Of the two men
entered as “ discharged otherwise,” one went on sick leave, the other was invalided. Three
men were invalided ; one of them was a hospital case.
Accommodation and defects.
Conservancy.
Hospital water-supply.
Sickness, mortality, and
inva-liding.
11. Ague, due to climatic causes, gave the chief number
of admissions. Injuries, mostly of a slight nature, gave the
next principal item.
12. The man who died was a Marwaree Mussulman.
13. The rainfall, which was below the average, viz., 19 inches 45 cents, instead of about
26 inches, does not appear to have had any particular effect on
the health of the men.
14. Cholera broke out in cantonments at the end of April, but did not make its ap-
pearance in the battery until the 9th of July ; 1 man was at-
tacked but recovered. Six cases occurred amongst the families
and followers, viz., 1 man, 3 women, and 2 children, of whom 2 women died ; the rest
recovered.
Influence of rainfall.
Epidemics.
15. Fourteen persons were primarily vaccinated success-
fully ; 10 persons were re-vaccinated ; 3 cases were successful,
and 7 unsuccessful .
16. The general health of the men has been good.
REMARKS BY DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL D. WYLLIE, M.D.
Health was good throughout ; percentage of treated to strength only 70, as against
85.48 in previous year, the difference being due to fewer fevers (as in the 28th Regiment N.I.
and Squadron), probably from small rainfall. One death only, the result of an accident. New
lines on the standard plan have been completed, and are in all respects satisfactory ; other
conditions sanitarily favourable, excepting that the remarks made regarding conservancy and
water-supply of the cavalry apply also to this charge. There was ample hospital accommo-
dation, and vaccination was properly attended to.