PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
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XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment
Present
.
. .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 665.57
Absent
.
.
. .
.
. .
.
.
. .
79.15
Total
.
. 744.72
Sickness
mortality and invaliding.
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 Shindi . 1st Jan. 1878 8th Mar. 1878 429.66
54
1
14.68 68.42 1.25 3.41
9th Mar.„ 21st. „
„
431.08
12 ...
13.61 78.06 ...
3.15
, , m a r c h i n g t o
K o h a s u e d A b b o t t a b a d .
,,
at Abbottabad 22nd „
„ 31st Dec.„
606.9
538
5
27.17 113.52 1.08 4.46
1st Jan. „ 29th Mar. „
281.76
6O
1
7.54 88.30 1.45 2.67
Wing at Edwardesabad
.
Detachment at Janikheyl . 31st „
„ 7th „ „
35
2
. . .
.17 57.89 ...
.48
at Oghie
. 1st April „ 8th Sep. „
31.
5
...
.33 36.56 ...
1.06
TOTAL
... ...
665.57 671
7
27.07 100.83 1.05 9.66
Number of deaths in hospital 7; out of hospital 1; total .
8; per cent. of total strength .
.
1.07
„
invalided
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 13;
„
,,
.
174
,,
sent on sick leave . .
.
.
.
.
. 18; „,,
, ,
. . 2.41
„
of days spent in hospital 9,891; per admission . 14.7 ; per man of total strength .
. 13.27
,,
,,
on sick leave 1,739; per man .
. 96.6;
, ,
, ,
. .
2.33
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
. 15.60
5th Coorkha Regiment—Abbottabad.
The report has been written by Surgeon-Major George Farrell, and is
published almost complete. The regiment, through vicissitudes of climate
and service in Jowaki, at Abbottabad, and on the Peiwar, presented many
phases of interest for medical observation and enquiry, and they have been
most carefully noted and recorded by the Surgeon-Major. The report is not
only most useful as a regimental record, but is both interesting and instructive
to the service at large.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873
Abbottabad
110.60
1.8
3.3
1874
Ditto
109.
1.3
4.2
1875
Ditto
98.3
2.14
4.42
1876
Ditto
123.71
.53
4.08
1877
Ditto
93.5
.91
3 65
Average
107.02
1.33
3.93
1878
Abbottabad, Jowaki and
Afghan expeditions.
135.04
2.14
3.94
I. Medical Officers .—The late Surgeon-Major J. R. Johnson: held medical
charge charge of the regiment from
the 1st January till his
death on the. 19th May,
from which date Surgeon
A. J. Mackenzie held
charge till the 31st of July
when Surgeon-Major G.
Farrell, transferred from the
2nd Punjab Cavalry, assum-
ed medical charge, and has
held. it to the end of the
year.
II. Location and movements.
—The head-quarters of the regiment
were employed in the expedition
against the Jowaki Afridis, under
Brigadier-General C. P. Keyes, in the hills in the neighbourhood of Kohat, from the lst.
January to the 6th March. They then marched to Abbottabad, the permanent head-quar-
ters of the regiment, where they remained till the 1st October On the 2nd October the regi
-ment marched to Thull, 65 miles west-south-west of Kohat, to join the Koorum Valley Field
Force, and was encamped there till the 22nd November. On the 23rd it crossed the River
Koorum and entered the Koorum and during the remainder of the year. has taken part
in the operations of General Roberts' column in the Koorum and Hariah valleys.
Niedical
Xfivors.
Location a
movements.