YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873
. Kohat .
.
.
.
167.8
1.4
6.
1874
.
Ditto
.
.
.
.
127.
1.5
3.2
1875
.
Ditto
.
.
.
.
160.16
3.3
5.
1876
.
Ditto
.
.
.
.
163.77
7.15
4.9
1877
.
Ditto
.
.
.
.
100.53
1.53
3.37
Average
.
143.48
2.97
4.51
1878
. Kohat and active service
in Afghanistan .
.
192.09
4.98
6.19
154
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 Kohat and
on field service.
1st Jan. 1878 31st Dec. 1878 145 13
624
2
10.19 429.96 1.37
7.03
Number of deaths in hospital 2; out of hospital 2; total
4; per cent. of total strength
.
2 . 4 7
, , invalided
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1;
,,
, ,
.
.
.61
,,
sent on sick leave
.
.
.
.
.
.
4;
, ,
,,
.
.
2.47
, , of days spent in hospital 3,720; per admission .
5.96; per man of total strength
.
2 2 . 9 6
, ,
„ on sick leave 361 ; per man .
.
90.25;
,,
,,
.
.
2.23
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
25.19
Principal
causes of
mortality.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality. —Of 5 deaths which occurred during the year, 1
was from gunshot wound in action. The remaining 4 were due to pneumonia ; 3 of these,
which occurred towards the end of the year, were probably the effect of exposure on service,
acting upon men whose vitality had been lowered by severe attacks of fever in Kohat, during
the autumnal months.
inspection.
Inspection.—The inspection of this battery took place at Kohat on the
28th March 1878. Deputy Surgeon-General F. F. Allen, C.B., remarks :—" The
lines were very clean and in excellent sanitary condition, leaving nothing to be
desired. Medicines carefully kept ; poisons apart, under lock and key. Every-
thing about the hospital betokened vigilant attention to details." The inspect-
ing medical officer notes that as the centre infantry lines are being removed
to another site, their present one should remain permanently vacant as a
central garden and park to the lines around.
5th Garrison Battery of Artillery—Kohat.
Medical
Officers.
I. Medical Officers.—Surgeon-Major Holmes held medical charge of the
battery from 1st January
to 4th October 1878 ; Sur-
geon R. Moodie, from 5th
October to 29th November ;
and Surgeon-Major C. P.
Costello, from 30th Novem-
ber to the end of the year.
The sanitary report, very
meagre in its details, is writ-
ten by the latter officer.
Location and
movements.
II. Location and movements.
— T h e b a t t e r y r e m a i n e d a t K o h a t
during the year under report.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the battery :—
Present .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 71.32
Absent .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
8 . 8 6
Total
.
. 80.18
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Admis-sions. D
eaths.
Daily
average
Head-quarters, Kohat and
field service, Afghanistan.
1st Jan. 1878 . 31st Dec. 1878
43.18
80
2
2.32 185.27 4.63
5.39
Detachment, Quetta
.
Ditto
.
Ditto
.
27.20
57
1
2.10 209.77 3.67
7.72
TOTAL
.
. . .
...
71.32 137
3
4.42 192.09 4.20 6.19
Number of deaths in hospital 3 ; out of hospital 1; total
4; per cent. of total strength
.
.
4 . 9 8
, , invalided .
.
.
. . . . . 5 ;
„
„
.
.
6.23
, , sent on sick leave
.
.
.
. . . 1 ;
„
„
.
.
1 . 2 4
, , of days spent in hospital 1,614; per admission 11.78; per man of total strength
.
.
20.13
, ,
„ on sick leave 123; per man.
123;
„
, ,
.
.
1 . 5 3
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
. 21.66