Medical
Officers.
Location and
novenients.
Lines and
huts.
Conservancy
and latrines.
LAHORE DIVISION.
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1875. Thirty-eight cases of bronchitis were treated, one of which proved fatal ; of pneumonia
there were three cases, one terminating fatally ; of eye diseases there were 17, mostly cases of
conjunctivitis; other cases do not call for special remark.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—There were nine deaths in the year, of these, two
men were killed in action on the 2nd of December, one died of his wounds on the following
day, one man was killed by a camel falling on him, one man died from pneumonia, and one
from bronchitis, one from diarrhœa, and one from dysentery, and one from ague. One officer
was also killed in action.
Inspection.—This regiment was inspected at Simla on 25th September
1878. There had been plenty of marching and exposure throughout the year,
yet the regiment had enjoyed unusually good health, and had lost only two men
by disease. All the hospital arrangements were correctly maintained according
to regulations.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Inspection.
LAHORE DIVISION.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF MEEAN MEER, FEROZEPORE, MOOLTAN, DHARMSALA, AND BAKLOH).
Average daily strength present during the year . . . Cavalry. 817.51 Infantry 3,928.84
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength . . .
„
4.90
,,
6.92
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength . . .
„
2.3
,,
2.35
19t h Regi ment , Bengal Lancer s —Meean Meer .
I. Medical Officers. —Surgeon-Major G. A. Watson has continued to hold
medical charge of the regi-
ment throughout the year
Surgeon F. W. Wright, M.B.
who was directed by demi-
official of November 8th to do
duty with the head-quarter
of the regiment, joined it on
November 16th, and remain-
ed with it till the close of the
year.
II. Location and movements.
—The head-quarters of the regi-
ment remained stationed at Meean
Meer from January 1st to Sep-
tember 27th; then marched to
Mooltan, where it arrived on October 17th ; halted there till October 23rd, when it marched to
Dera Ghazi Khan ; reached that station on October 27th, and halted there till November 6th ;
when it marched to Rajanpore, arriving there on November 10th; again halted till December 3rd,
when it marched to Mithankote, and after a halt there of two days marched towards Afghanis-
tan on December 6th viâ Bandowalla, Dera Bughti, Lehri, and the Bolan Pass, halting one day
(December 18th) at Mittri and six days (December 20th to 26th) at Dadur, and on the last day
of the year had reached Sir-i-Ab, one march from Quetta.
V . L i n e s a n d h u t s . — T h e s e w e r e t h e s a m e a s l a s t y e a r , a n d t h e i r u n s a t i s f a c t o r y s t a t e w a s
fully entered into in last year's report. Openings for ventilation in the huts were, as far as
possible, maintained, but serious sickness was on more than one occasion traced to bad and in-
sufficient accommodation and ventilation.
V I I . C o n s e r v a n c y a n d l a t r i n e s . — N o c h a n g e w a s m a d e i n t h e s y s t e m o f c o n s e r v a n c y a n d
latrines at Meean Meer during the year, and it continued to work in a satisfactory manner. The
stable litter was readily and willingly removed by contractors, who paid high prices for it owing to
the great demand for it to make bricks for the new water and drainage works in course of con-
struction. The encamping grounds between Meean Meer and Mooltan were clean and in good
order, and the same may be said of those between Mooltan and Dera Ghazi Khan ; but from the
latter station to Rajanpore, and from thence through the whole of Beloochistan, they were almost
without exception in a most filthy state, having been left so by corps that preceded us ; at few,
if any, had any sanitary measures been attempted, and the effluvia arising from the dead bodies of
camels and other animals, from stable litter, human excreta, camel dung, and other refuse, was most
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873 . Lucknow, Feb.1873 .
123.1
.43
4.49
1874 . Ditto
84.07
.21
3.6
1875 . Ditto
. . .
104.08
.87
3.76
1876 . Meean Meer, Mar. 1876.
208.13
1.52
6.05
1877 . Ditto
81.61
1.52
3.09
Average . .
120.20
.91
4.20
1878 . Meean Meer, and active
service in Afghanistan.
136.09
2.8
4.11