MILITARY DEPARTMENT, 19TH SEPTEMBER 1877, No. 5279.
The following officers died during the year, viz :—
Corps.
Rank and Name.
A g e .
S e r v i c e i n I n d i a .
Tot al Ser vi ce.
Cause of Death.
Date of Death.
Place of Death.
14th Hussars. Lieutenant-Colonel
F. P. Campbell.
39
5 4 / 1 2
2 1 7 / 1 2 Dysentery.
14th June 1876. Bangalore.
16th Lancers. Veterinary-Surgeon
M. D Byrne.
36
5 3 / 1 2
12 10/12 Valve disease
of heart.
20th May „ Matheran.
2/5th Brigade,
Royal Arty.
Major C. H. Picker
-ing.
38 14 6/12 20 6/12 A. poplexy
(congestive.)
28th April „
Secunderabad
2/16th Regi
-meat.
Major C. Godwin.
39
3 7 / 1 2
17
Gunshot
wound (sui
-cide.)
21st June „
Do.
33rd Regiment Major J. Weeding. 40
8 / 1 2 21 1/12 Malignant
cholera.
14th July „
Ahmedabad.
Army Medical
Department.
Surgeon H. N. L.
James.
. . .
. . .
. . . Apoplexy
(sanguineous).
19th Dec. „
Secunderabad
Do.
Surgeon A. A.
Stewart.
36 5 1/12 13 Contusion of
abdomen
with rupture
of viscera by
a fall from
his horse.
4th April „
Malliapooram
11th Brigade,
Royal Arty.
Lieutenant-Colonel
C. Raikes.*
47 27 1/12 28 Cancer of
tongue.
27th April „ Wellington.
13th Hussars.
.
Captain M. Bieber.*
. . .
. . .
. . . Railway acci
-dent, frac
-tured jaw,
lacerated
wound of
knee and
general con
- t u s i o n .
6th August „
Bangalore.
*Not
included in War Office Form 298.
The invaliding ratio—83.95 shows a decrease of 11.52 as compared with 1875.
There were thirty-four invalids ; hepatitis and general debility contributing rather
more than half the number.
Women. —Average strength—1,413; admissions—1,421, including 298 cases of
child-birth. The admission rate equalled 1005.66, and the death rate 19.11 per mille
of strength,—both being in excess of previous year. The increased admission rate is
probably in a great measure due to greater care in recording cases admitted.
For mer l y, medi cal of f i cer s wer e, as a r ul e, i n t he habi t of r ecor di ng onl y such cases
as were actually admitted to hospital,—cases treated in quarters being excluded from
the statistics. This has been rectified.
Debility caused the chief admissions. Dyspepsia, simple continued fever and
diarrhœa come next in order. Of 27 deaths, 14 occurred in the febrile group, and
include 9 deaths from cholera and 3 from enteric fever. Five deaths occurred under
the digestive system, 3 being due to dysentery and 2 to diarrhœa. There were 11
admissions from cholera, with 9 deaths and 2 admissions from Dengue.
Children. —Average strength—2,833. Admissions—1,685. Deaths—175. The
admission ratio—594.78 exceeds that of 1875 by 40.76, while the death ratio-
61.77 exceeds that of previous year by 7.75 per mille of strength.
The increased admission rate probably in some degree owns the same cause as
that already noted when referring to women.
Diseases of the digestive system furnished the chief admissions and mortality.
Ten admissions and 7 deaths were due to cholera. Small-pox and sunstroke each
furnished a case. Both recovered. There were 3 cases of accidental poisoning,
viz., 1 from tartar emetic and 2 from mechanical irritation produced by the berries of
"Phænix Sylvestris," one of the latter proving fatal. Two cases of dengue, occurred
at Thayetmyo ; both recovered.
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