CENTRAL INDIA.
49
which cannot well be avoided in the case of local regiments occupying the same
cantonments for many years uninterruptedly.
•
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. —Strength of the force :—
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
Present .
. . • • • • • • • • 7 5 7
Absent
.
.
.
1 1 9
Total
. 876
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
STATION.
From
To
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Admissions Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters, Erinpoorah . 1st Jan. 1878 31st Dec. 1878 547.75
624
4
20'46 113.92 .73 3.73
Detachment, Escort to
,,
, ,
1st March „
101
59
1
1.27 151. 24 2.56 1.25
Agent, Governor-General.
12th Oct. „ 31st Dec. „
Detachment, Abu
.
. 1st Jan. „ 31st Dec. „
87
136
...
2.44 156.32 ...
2.80
,,
Jodhpore, and let Jan. „ 26th April „
61
75
...
197 169.37 ...
3.23
Marwar.
5th Aug. „ 31st Dec. „
Detachment, Bikaueer
. 1st Jan. „ 1st Nov. „
35
20
1
.70 68.39 3.41 2.
„
Beawur
. 26th Oct. „ 31st Dec. „
53
17
1
2.25 174.71 10.35 4.24
TOTAL
.
...
...
757
931
7
26.64 122.85 .92 3.51
Number of deaths in hospital 7; out of hospital 5; total 12; percentage of total strength .
. 1.37
invalided
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
13;
.
, ,
,,
.
1 .48
,,
sent on sick leave
.
.
.
.
.
.
0;
.
.
0 . 0 0
„
of days spent in hospital 9,724; per admission . 10.45; per man of total strength
.
. 11.10
,,
,,
on sick leave 0; per man
.
.
0 ;
.
. 0.00
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength .. 11.10
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—Deaths in hospital 7 ; of which 4 occurred at head-
quarters and 3 in detachments, as follows :-
Head-quarters —
815. Pneumonia
.
•
.
. 1
601. Extravasation of urine
.
.
. 1
466. Dysentery .
.
.
.
. 1 1117. Wound, contused
.
.
.
. 1
The first two call for no remark. The duffadar who died from extravasation of urine was
the subject of an old and bad stricture, and while absent on escort duty, the urethra gave way,
and he was treated in the Jessole dispensary (Marwar) for some time, and subsequently sent into
head-quarters hospital with the integument of lower abdomen gangrenous, the scrotum and
part of penis sloughed away, and the man in a low, typhoid, irritable condition ; he soon became
unconscious, hiccough came on, and he sank. The contused wound was the result of a horse
kick over the patella received by an old sowar of 21 years' service, followed by inflammation
of the knee-joint and general diffused inflammation of the limb and profuse suppuration indu-
cing emaciation, symptoms of pyæmia and secondary lung complications.
CENTRAL INDIA.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF GOONA, AGAR, KIIERWARA, SIRDARPORE, SEHORE AND ADIERE).
Average daily strength present during the year
.
. Cavalry 579.26 Infantry 2424.41
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength
.
.
,,
3.41
„
4.04
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength
.
.
,,
1.83
, ,
2.03
1st Regiment, Central India Horse—Agar.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Medical Officers.— The regiment was successively under the medical charge of Medical Officers
Surgeons Fergusson, Calde-
cott, and Lucas of the Bom-
bay Medical Service. The
latter officer reports that the
corps was stationed through-
out the year at Agar, giving
as usual a detachment to In-
dore. The rainfall of the year
amounted to 41. 57 inches,
which fell principally in
July, August and Septem-
ber. October and November
were the most sickly months.
The sanitary circumstances
of the station and regiment
have undergone no change. Food was cheap, plentiful and good, and the men
N
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths, Daily sick.
1873
. Goona, October 1873 .
22.8
. 2 2
1.1
1874
. Ditto . . .
26.6
. 4 0
1.55
1875
. Ditto . . .
80.47
. 2 0
2.55
1876
. Agar, November 1876 .
4 .
. 4
2.08
1877
. Ditto .
. . .
41.74
1.62
2.02
Average
35.12
5.7
1.86
1878
. Agar
.
120.44
2.03
3.47