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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL,
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters at Fort
William and Jhausi.
1st Jan. 1878 31st Dec. 1878 628.25
743
9
17.50 118.25 1.43 2.78
Detachment at Cawnpore . 12th Dec. „
Ditto
. 294.25
35
...
12.37 11.82 ...
4.20
TOTAL
.
.
...
. . . 650.38
778
9
18.82 119.62 1.38
2.89
Inspection.
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Topography.
Number of deaths in hospital 9; out of hospital 7; total
16; per cent. of total strength .
.
2.25
, ,
invalided
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
36;
,,
,,
.
.
5.53
,,
sent on sick leave
.
.
.
.
.
.
30;
,,
,,
.
.
4.23
„
of days spent in hospital 6,615; per admission 8.51; per man of total strength .
.
9.33
, ,
,,
on sick leave 2,200; per man
. 73.33;
, ,
,,
.
.
3.11
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength .
.
12.44
Inspection.—The inspection of this regiment took place on the 26th Novem-
ber 1878 by Mr. Cockburn, Deputy Surgeon-General of the Presidency Circle.
After remarking on the good general health of the garrison in Fort William,
where the regiment was thenstationed, and the excellent sanitary rules in force
there, he particularizes the 16th Native Infantry as having had a low average
of sickness, invaliding and mortality during the year. He mentions that the
body of the men were of good physique and the recruits (65) a strong, healthy
set of young men. The report on the hospital, medicines, instruments, equi-
page, records and subordinates is also commendatory.
45th (Battrag's Sikhs) Begiment, native Infantrg.
I. Medical Officers.— Surgeon-Major William W. Galloway held medical
charge from 1st January to
31st May, Surgeon J. Moor-
head from 1st June to 30th
June, Surgeon T. Ffrench
Mullen from 1st July to
23rd August, Surgeon J.
Neil Campbell from 24th
August to 12th September,
and Surgeon A. Barclay from
13th September to end of
the year.
II. Location and movements. —
The regiment was stationed at
Alipore from the beginning of the
year until the 17th October. On
the latter date it left by rail for Jhelum, where it arrived on the 22nd idem. Leaving a depôt
there and all the sick, it marched from Jhelum on the 25th October to join the first division of
the Peshawur Valley Field Force. From the 3rd to the 11th November there was a halt at
Lawreucepore. From the 14th to the 18th November a halt at Nowshera. Arrived at
Jumrood on the 20th November. On the 7th December marched from Jumrood to Shaghai,.
a height just above Ali Musjid in the Khyber Pass. On the 15th December marched from
Shaghai, and on the 17th reached Fort Dakka, where it remained durin the rest of the year.
III. Topography.— The cantonments at Alipore were described in last year's report. Fort
Dakka is situated in a plain lying between the Khyber and Khoord Khyber passes. The
plain is between two and three miles in length and breadth, and. is surrounded on all sides by
rocky hills of from 1,000 to 2,000 feet in height. Through the centre flows the Cabul river,
a stream at this part of about 120 feet in breadth and of great depth, but said to be fordable
with difficulty in one or two places near. During the rainy season it overflows a large part of
the plain, which is partially cultivated. The fort is on the right bank of the river, near the
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873
. Moradabad and Shabje-
hanpur, February 1872
73.6
.66
2.43
1874
,
Ditto .
.
.
.
90.3
.25
3.30
1875
.
Ditto .
.
.
.
82.5
. 4 2
2.52
1876
. Alipore, February 1876.
125.2
1.14
3.46
1877
.
Ditto
.
.
. .
121.51
1.84
3.32
Average .
.
.
98.62
.86
3.01
1878
. Alipore and active ser-
vice in Afghanistan.
149.3
2.68
3.49