uses of
mortality.
Epidemics.
Medical
Officers.
Location and
innuonianto
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding .—Strength of the regiment :—
Present
.
. .
. . . . .
. . . 147.34
Absent
. .
.
. .
.
. .
. . . 16.49
Total . . 163.83
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
back from the stream into low rounded hills, which rapidly increase in height on the flanks of
Kadimuk mountain, just to the north of the camp. The battery was stationed on the front of
the infantry camp,viz., on that portion facing theRiver Koorum.
VIII.
Water-supply .—The water-supply at Abbottabad was derived from wells, and was
furnished in abundance and of fairly good quality. At Thull it was derived from the Rivei
Koorum. No illness arose from water contamination, but considering the conservancy arrange.
ments,this is rather a matter of surprise.
145
Water-supply.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. -Strength of the battery :—
Present
.
.
.
.
. . . . . . . 145.44
Absent
. .
. . . . . . . . . . 17.02
Total . . 162 46
Sickness,
mortality anti
PERIOD.
TOTAL NUMBER. OF
Daily
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
P E R ANNUM .
STATION.
From
To
Strength.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
average number
of sick. Admis-
sions. Death.
Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters., with Jowaki
Field Force. 1st Jan. 1878 6th Mar: 1878 101.20 29 . . .
4.36 160.88 ... 4.30
” Abbottabad . 7th Mar. 1878 17th Oct: „ 137.15 138
1
9.16 163.22 1.16 6.68
”marching on
Field service.
18th Oct. „ 31st Dec. „ 143.12
68 . . .
8.66 231.21 ... 6.05
Detachment, Abbottabad . Ditto . . 18th „ „
68.97
33 . . .
.8 228.07 ... 7. 08
”Camp Thull . 4th Dec. „ 30th „ „
75.0
16
. . .
9.25 288 35 . . . 12.33
TOTAL .
...
...
145.44 284
1
9.41 195.27
. 68 6.46
Number of deaths in hospital 1; out of hospital 0; total .
1; per cent, of total strength . . .61
” invalided
.
. . .
. .
1., ; „
.
. .
.61
” sent on sick leave
. . . . . .
4; ,,
” .
. . 2.46
” of days spent in hospital 3,421 ; per admission . 12.04; per man of total strength .
. . 21.05
”
„
on sick leave 330; per man
. 8.25; „
”
. . 2.03
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . 23.08
XVII. Principal causes of mortality .-One man died from relapsing fever,—this being the
only death that occurred during the year in the regiment.
XVIII. Epidemics .—At Abbottabad relapsing fever was prevalent amongst the famine-
s t r i c k e n me n i n t h e ‘ s e mi , ' a n d s u b s e q u e n t l y t y p h u s f e v e r b r o k e o u t b a d l y a mo n g s t t h e m. On
the battery arriving at Abbottabad, a few cases of typhus occurred amongst the men, but the
type of fever that infected them was chiefly of the relapsing variety.
no. 4 (gaeara) mountain Batterp—Abbottabad.
I. Medical Officers.—Several medical officers held temporary medica
charge of the battery dur-
ing the year.
II.L o c a t i o n a n d
m o v e m e n t s
, —
From the 1st January to the 28th
February the battery was engaged
in the Jowaki expedition, and was
encamped at Shergashi ; thence it
marched to Hoti Mardan, arriving
in camp there on the 13th March
and remaining till 28th of the
following month; and then pro.
ceeded to Abbottabad, where it
occupied its own lines till the
11th October, when it marched to
Jumrod and became part of the
Cabul Expeditionary Field Force
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873 . Abbottabad, Feb. 1873 .
148. 1.2
2.9
1874 .
Ditto .
.
178.3
...
3.1
1875 . Kohat, March 1875 .
284.96 1.2
5.65
1876 .
Ditto .
. . 269.35
.6
4.3
1877 . Abbottabad, May 1877 .
138.92
.6
3.47
Average . .
203.9
.72
3.88
1878 . Abbottabad . . .
218.54
1.22
4.24
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