Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE. NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL,
Principal
causes of
mortality.
XVII. Principal causes of modality.—There were 15 deaths in hospital, of which 3 were
from remittent fever ; 2, from ague with dysentery; 2, from ague with diarrhœa; 2, from ague
with pneumonia ; 1, from pulmonary phthisis ; 1, from pneumonia ; 2, from acute bronchitis ;
and 2, from dysentery. Four deaths occurred out of hospital ; 1 died of ague and dysentery
on the way back to the base hospital; 1 died at his home on sick leave ; 2, at their homes on
furlough, cause unknown.
no. 3 Peshawar Mountain Battery—Quetta.
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
I. Medical Officers. —Surgeon A. H. Williams held medical charge until re-
lieved by Surgeon H. Hamil-
ton in January. Surgeons
H. Adey (Bombay Medical
Service), H. R. McKay and
A. M. Crofts had charge suc-
cessively from the 23rd No-
vember to the 20th Decem-
ber, when Surgeon Hamil-
ton again assumed charge.
II. Location and movements.
—The battery was at Quetta from
1st January to 24th November, on
which date the march to Kanda
har commenced, and camp was
continually changed, the battery
being at Chaman over the Khojak
Pass on the last day of the year.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the battery
—
Present . . . . . . . . . . .
181.27
Absent . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 . 7 8
Total . . 1 9 6 . 0 5
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873 . Kohat, Feb. 1873 from
Abbottabad.
285.7
. 6 5.1
1874 . Kohat . . . . 239.3
. 6 4.1
1875 . Abbottabad, Feb. 1875. 198.27 ...
6.
1876 . Ditto
. . . 203.31 ...
6.38
1877 . Quetta, April 1877 . 409.9
. 6 10.04
Average . 267.32
. 3 6 6.32
1878 . Quetta and active service
in Afghanistan . . 545.74 2.55
12.87
STATION.
PERIOD .
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
P E R A N N U M .
From
To
Admi ssi ons. Deaths.
Admis sions. Deaths. Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters at Quetta . 1st Jan. 1878 23rd Nov. 1878 189.50 971 3 24.76 571.94 1.76 13.06
,,
marching to
Chaman on field service in
Afghanistan.
24th Nov. „ 31st Dec. „
90.82 18 ...
5.50 190.37 ... 6.07
TOTAL . .
...
...
181.27 989 3 23.32 545.74 1.65 12.87
Number of deaths in hospital 3; out of hospital 2; total 5 ; per cent. of total strength . . 2 . 5 5
, , invalided . . . . . . . . 3;
, ,
,, . . 1.53
” sent on sick leave . . . . . . 1;
,,
,,
. . .51
„ of days spent in hospital 8,512 ; per admission 8.6 ; per man of total strength . . 43.43
,,
on sick leave 181; per man 181;
, ,
,,
,,
.92
Temporary loss of service per man of total strength
. . 4 4 . 3 5
Principal
causes of
sickness.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—Malarial fevers and dysentery were the chief sources
of admission into hospital during the year ; of' the former, 600 cases occurred ; of the latter, 91.
Accidental injuries also gave 69 admissions. The battery was very unhealthy during this, as
well as the previous, year (1877) at Quetta, which, as a station, compares very unfavourably
with many others, even on the north-west frontier. Many of the men have still got enlarged
spleens, which they first contracted there. This is also the experience of the 1st Punjab
Infantry and a detachment of the 4th Sikhs.
XVI. Principal causes of mortality.— Three deaths occurred in hospital at head-quarters,
Quetta ; viz., 1 from pneumonia ; 1 from epilepsy ; 1 from ague ( a) with complications. Two
men died on command after leaving Quetta; cause of death not known.
X V I I . E p i d e m i c s . — N o n e .