Duties and effects on health.
Marches.
NORTHERN DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
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Food, quality of, and whether
abundant and cheap.
6. The food has been abundant and cheap.
7. The clothing is of excellent European cloth. The boots and buckled shoes, of Cawn-
pore make, cause frequent sores, over the instep, &c., which is
at least curious, as there is little foot duty.
Clothing, &c.
8. The men’s health does not suffer from the nature of the
duties they have to perform, save by horse-riding accidents.
9. To Delhi.
10. There has been scarcely any difference in the relative numbers of fever cases during
the present and last year (the rainfall having been almost iden-
tically the same in amount).
Dysentery was almost double in frequency. There was only one death, in all, this year ;
it occurred as follows (from dysentery):—A man convalescent from this disease got leave to
stay in, and continued to receive treatment in the lines, for a few days, on account of family
matters. He afterwards confessed that he had his abdomen violently kneaded for hours con-
secutively, with a view, as he said, of completing the cure. He died with every symptom of
perforative peritonitis, but his friends would not allow of a post-mortem examination.
Affections of the liver were also more numerous this year. One of these cases (abscess burst
-ing into the lung) made a good recovery under treatment by nutriments, tonics (and stimu
- l a n t s , e s p e c i a l l y ) . H e w a s , h o w e v e r , i n v a l i d e d a s u n f i t f o r c a v a l r y d u t y . T h e n u m b e r o f
invalids was the same, and as small and unimportant as last year.
Sickness, mortality, and invalid-
ing.
Sickness, &c.
Sickness, mortality, and invaliding for the years 1875 and
1876 :—
Diseases.
1875.
1876.
Fevers
...
...
...
. . . . . .
. . .
. . .
144
1 3 8
Rheumatic affections
...
...
...
...
27
21
Syphilitic affections
...
...
...
. . .
. . .
6
3
Scorbutic affections
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
6
1
L o c a l D i s e a s e s .
Diseases of the Nervous System ...
...
... ...
6
1
Insanity ...
...
. . .
.
.
. . . .
. . .
2
...
Diseases of the eye
...
...
...
. . .
9
16
Do . of the heart ...
...
...
...
. . .
2
. . .
Do. of the lung ...
Bronchitis
...
. .
.
12
3
Pneumonia
...
...
1
...
Pleurisy
...
... ...
2
Diseases of the stomach and bowels.
Diarrhœa
... ...
3
2
Dysentery...
...
6
1 1
Others (colic, hæmorrhoids, &c.).
8
8
Diseases of the liver ...
. . .
. . .
...
...
1
5
Do. of the spleen ...
...
...
...
...
1
...
Gonorrhœa
...
...
...
. . .
. . .
6
2
Ulcers
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
. . .
Skin diseases
...
...
...
...
. . .
43
55
Abscess ...
...
...
...
...
. . .
. . .
2
Other diseases of this class
...
...
...
...
15
14
Debility
...
...
...
...
...
...
5
...
Injuries
...
...
...
...
...
54
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Total ... 361
393
Number of men invalided ...
...
...
...
. . .
12
11
„
of deaths during the year
...
...
...
...
1
1
„
of men discharged by court-martial
...
...
...
1
...
„
of men discharged by invaliding committee ...
...
1 None.
11. The rain commenced this year on the 26th of June. Last year the monsoon burst on
the 8th June. There were, moreover, two days of rain in May.
The rainfall itself appears to have had no real effect in the
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Influence of rainfall.