Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Drainage.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL,
2nd Regiment, Sikh Infantry—Dera Chazi Rhan.
I. Medical Officers.—T h e
f o l l o w i n g m e d i c a l o f f i c e r s h e l d m e d i c a l c h a r g e
of the regiment during the
year :—Surgeon J. Robin-
son, from 1st to 10th Janu-
ary ; Surgeon E. Sanders,
from 11th January to 16th
August ; Surgeon-Major E.
Morton, from 17th August
to 20th September ; Surgeon
J. S. Griffiths, from 21st
to 27th September ; Hospi-
tal-Assistant Vallait Hossein,
from 28th September to 4th
October ; Surgeon J. A.
Nelis, from 5th to 25th Oc-
tober ; Surgeon E. Sanders,
from 26th October to 4th
December ; Surgeon H. P. Yeld, from 5th to 14th December ; and Surgeon
P. H. O' Connor, from 156th to 31st December.
II. Location and movements.— The regiment marched, in the course of general relief,
from Dera Ismail Khan on the 18th of January, and arrived at Dera Ghazi Khan on the
25th of January. It remained there until the 9th of October, when orders were received to
proceed on field service. On the night of the following day it marched, and arrived at Rajan-
pur on the 17th of October. Here it was detained until the 8th of November, when it moved
to Mithankote, where it remained to the end of the year.
VI. Drainage.—The drainage of Dera Ghazi Khan was very defective. This was due
to the country around giving no natural outfall, and the River Indus, instead of affording
an outlet, threatening an inundation. For many years past great labor was employed in the
construction of embankments, to resist the pressure of the river on its right bank, and to form
a sale barrier between it and the station. Hitherto they attained their object, but this year
an unusually high flood in August breached them. The water flowed unchecked into canton-
ments, and in two days reduced the regimental lines to shapeless heaps of earth.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding:— Strength of the regiment :—
Present
. . . . . . . . . . . 645.76
Absent
. . . . . . . . . . . 9 5 . 6 0
Total . . 741.36
Year.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1873 . Kohnt, Dec. 1871. . 174.7
2.
3.9
1874 . Ditto
.
. . 187.8
1.6
4.1
1875 . Dera. Ismail Khan, Dec. 1874. 159.68 2.84
5.15
1876 . Ditto
. . . 150.81
. 8 1 3.95
1877 . Ditto
. . . 125.89 1.21
2.87
Average . . 159.77 1.49
3.99
1878 . Dera Ghazi Khan, Jan.
1878.
236.77 3.37
7.75
PERIOD.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average number
of sick.
PER CENT. or STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
STATION.
From
To
Strength. Admis
sions. Deaths.
Admis sions. Deaths. Daily.
average sick.
Head-quarters, Dera Ismail
Khan.
1st Jan. 1878 17th Jan. 1878
„
en route to
Dera Ghazi Khan.
18th „ „ 26th „ „
,,
Dora Ghazi
Khan.
27th „ „ 10th Oct. , , 491 1,182 14 38.73 240.73 2.85 7.76
,, en route to
Rajanpur.
10th Oct. „ 17th ,, „
,,
Rajanpur . 18th „ „ 8th Nov. „
,,
Mithankote 9th Nov. „ 31st Dec. „
Detachment, Dera Ghazi
Khan.
1st Jan. „ 26th Jan. „ 276.76 33
1 10.64 167.34 5.05 3.84
,,
Mungrota . 24th Jan. „ 4th Oct. „ 25.22
5
. . . .13 28.18 ... .51
,,
Hurrund . 24th Apl. „ Ditto. . 25.01
9 ...
.5 80.13i ... 2.
, ,
Kaharr
. 19th May „ Ditto. . 58.40 22 ...
1.72 98.91 . . . 2.94
,,
Dera Bugti
and Dadur.
3rd Nov. „ 31st Dec. 1878 177.
91
1 10.19 318.04. 3.46 5.75
, , 2
D a d a r a n d
Sivi.
5th „ „ Ditto. . 132.55 65 ...
9.86 313.96 ... 7.44
Depôt, Dera Ghazi Khan.
11th Oct. „ Ditto. . 97.58 123
4 27.45
5 6 1 . 0 7 18.20 28.13
TOTAL .
...
. . .
645.76 1,529 20 50.21 236.77 3.09 7.75
Number of deaths in hospital 20; out of hospital 5; total.
25; per cent. of total strength . . 3.37
„ invalided . . . . . . . .
17 ; „
,,
. 2.29
„ sent on sick leave . . . . . . .
42 ; „
. . 5 . 6 6
, , of days spent in hospital 18,327; per admission . 11.98; per man of total strength . . 24.72
, ,
„ on sick leave 3,049 per man . 72.59
, ,
„,, . 4.11
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . 2 8 . 8 3