•Mortality.
Inspection.
SIRH-IND DIVISION.
103
XVI. Principal causes if sickness.— The admissions were from malarions fevers (1,165),
bowel complaints (147), chest ,complaints (131), blister of feet (51), venereal (43), boils (32),
general debility. (27), phthisis (9). The remaining 120 were casual cases met with in every
regimental hospital. Malarious fever was very prevalent in Jullundur throughout the whole of
the year, and at Loodhiana and Phillour during the months. of July, August and September,
and in many cases was followed by enlargement of the spleen. At Mooltan also, malarious fever
was prevalent when the regiment arrived there, and in some eases assumed the bilious, remit-
tent type of Peshawar fever; The march helped to shake off the fever, but then the Men suffered
from diseases induced by other causes which were favored by the weakness and anæmia left after
the malarious fever they,had suffered. Bowel complaints, especially dysentery and diarrhœa,
were very prevalent on the march from Mithankote to Quetta from coarse and bad atta, dhal
of bad quality and impure Water, and cold also had some influences in causing the dysentery.
Chest complaints on the march—pneumonia from debility, from causes above stated as much as
from cold and insufficient clothing. Blister of feet, 51, is not very large considering the hard
and severe marching the men had to undergo ; but the ammunition boot fitted very well. Men
suffered a good deal from chapped feet in fording the rivers, from the cold cutting wind acting
on the wet skin ; if each man had a few pairs of socks (woollen), they would not have suffered
in the least. Nine cases of phthisis occurred in men whose constitutions had been previously
debilitated from fever.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
XVII. Mortality.—Deaths in hospital 20 ; out of hospital 9.
Inspection. —This regiment was not inspected during 1878.
31st (Punjab) Regiment, flatibe Enfantrg—Jullumdur.
I. Medical Officers.—Surgeon-Major C. E. Raddock held medical charge
throughout the year. Sur-
geon R. W. Manser was
attached to the regiment
from 27th April 1878, and
in medical charge of detach-
ments of the regiment from
Bombay to Malta, and from
Malta to Cyprus,. and Cyprus
to Bombay, till 16th Septem-
ber 1878.
•II. Location and movements.
— T h e r e g i m e u t w a s a t C a w n p o r e ,
from 1st Jannary to 20th April;
with the Indian expeditionary
force to Malta and Cyprus, from
21st April to 16th September; returned to Cawnpore, on 20th
September; at Cawnpore from
2 0 t h S e p t e m b e r t o 3 r d O c t o b e r ; a t J u l l u n d u r f r o m 6 t h O c t o b e r t o 3 1s
t D e c e m b e r
• IV. Meteorology and climate.— The regiment has been subjected to various climatic changes
during the year, but on the whole has maintained its health well ; the tryig tryin periods were at
Malta, where the dry sorocco wind in the day and cold damp at nights caused a great deal of
dysentery. Next at Cyprus, where the peculiar heat of the summer, after a time, produced
continued fever, and left several in a debilitated condition. Lastly at Jullundur the regiment
suffered a good deal from epidemic ague, but for a short time only, and the effects were soon
overcome. The winter also is a severe one here and very trying to the constitutions of some,
particularly the Dogras, in whom pneumonia and chest affection are more numerous than in any
other class of men in the regiment.
V. Lines, barracks and huts. —At Cawnpore the regiment occupied the same lines as in
the previous year. At Malta the regiment was encamped at Fort Manoel from 27th May tc
17th July. At Cyprus it was emcamped at Larnaka from 28th July to 3rd August, and at
Limasoel from 4th to 20th August. The steam transports Maldaand Madura con-
veyed the regiment in two detachments, from Bombay to Malta and from Malta to Cyprus.
The steam transports St. Osytli and Marina brought back the regiment from Cyprus to Bo
m - b a y . A t J u l l u n d u r t h e r e g i m e n t o c c u p i e d t h e l i n e s r e c e n t l y v a c a t e d b y t h e 1 2 t h R e g i m e n t
Native Infantry.
1X. Diet.—From an insufficient variety in the food on hoard the steam transports, and the
great change the system of the men were undergoing in the voyage from Bombay to Malta;
a mouth disease, stomatitis, broke out in the regiment about the end of the voyage and soon
after arrival at Malta, of which a special report has been submitted. There were no traces of
scurvy in the disease, nor had the dysentery which subsequently appeared any scorbutic tendency
A fruit diet was recommended to the men by the Maltese and largely used by them for them
mouth complaint, and to this they subsequently attributed the dysentery that prevailed; but
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873 . Mooltan, October 1871 .
152.2
1.7
4. 7
1874 . Ditto
. . . .
1.98.4
. 8 5.4
1875 . Ditto
. . .
130.7
1.4
3.4
1876 . Cawnpore, Feb. 1876 .
104.2
.8
3.9
1877 . Ditto
74.4
. 2 8 2.22
Average .
133.78
. 0 9 3.86.
1878 . . Jullundur, 6th October . .228.86
1.37
4.70
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Meteorology
and climate.
Lines,
barracks and
huts.
Diet.