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NORTHERN DIVISION OF THE ARMY.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Average Strength Present during the year...
8,204
Average Daily Sick per cent, to the Average Strength Present
5.0
Ratio of Mortality per cent. to the Average Strength Present
1.6
H. M.’s 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry.
DEESA.—In Medical charge of Surgeon-Major A. BARRY, M.D.
Average Strength
491
Deaths in Hospital
3
Do.
Present
478
Do. out of do.
3
Admissions
487
Invalided
19
Daily Sick
8.3
Sick Leave
4
Y ears.
Stations.
Rate per cent. to Average Strength
Present of
Admissions.
Daily Sick.
Deaths in
Hospital.
1875
Deesa and Rajkot
83.2
3.1
0.4
1.876
Do.
do.
74.8
2.4
0.4
1877
Do.
do.
65.6
2.6
0.6
1878 1
Average...
74.5
2.7
0.5
101.8
1.7
0.6
1. Head-quarters of corps remained at Deesa during 1878. Owing to scarcity of
supplies between Rajcote and Deesa, the 3rd Squadron was not
relieved. Fifteen sabre,. relieved monthly, were on outpost
Location and movements.
duty at Palannur. On 24th Ap ril one troop, strength as per Margin, marched from Deesa
European Officer
1
Native Officers ... ......
3
Rank and File
79
Total... 83
to join 1st Lancers at Bombay en route to Malta and Cyprus.
On 22nd September they returned from the latter and pro-
ceeded to Poona with the Lancers, where they remained till the
end of the year
2. Under this head there has been no change s ince last year. Sullage from family
Lines and their surroundings ;
present condition, hygienic and
otherwise.
quarters percolates into ground in front of men’s houses. it is
very doubtful if this is a hygienic measure, as the trees are
not sufficient to absorb the liquid r ef use; pr act i cal l y t he
result is a continual moist soil, favouring the generation and evolution of miasm.
Conservancy.
'ater supply
Food and clothing.
Duties, &c.
Hospital, &e.
General health and physique.
3. Satisfactory. No alteration since last year.
4. Abundant and excellent.
5. See report for 1877.
6. See report for 1877.
7. Hospital excellent in every way.
8. General health very good; physique very fair.
9. Including the sick of the Raicote squadron,, the causes of admission were as follows.
Details of treated.
viz. ague, quotidian 242, tertian 5, quartan 1,febricula 7,
remittent 1 ; small-pox 2, cholera 3, rheumatism 13, syphilis
primary 3, secondary1 , l u m b a g o
c o n j u n c t i v i t i s
1 4 ,c
a t a r r h a l o p h t h a l m i a 1 , i n f l a m m a t i o n o f
ear 1, iritis 1, ulcer of cornea 1, respiratory affections 8, scurvy 1, gumboil 2, tonsillitis 1,
dysentery 16, diarrhoea 10, dyspepsia 3, colic 12, hoemorrhoids 1, inflammation of gum 1,
simple enlargement of liver 1, orchitis 2, dropsy of knee joint 1, abscess 7, psoriasis 1,
eczema 2, ulcers 7, boils 24, whitlow 1, tinea tonsurans 1, chilblain of hand 1, pemphigas
acute 1, general debility 3, burns and scalds 1, sprain of wrist 1, fracture compound of tibia
1, sprain of ankle 2, of knee 1, contusions 58, neuralgia 2, scabies 2, fracture of fore arm 1,
poison wound of lower extremity 1, other causes 11.
10. At Deesa there was one death in hos pital from acute diarrhoea and one out of
Mortality and its causes.
hospital from valvular disease of heart. At Rajcote two deaths
are recorded. one of cholera and one of dyspepsia. One man
died in Poona,, cause unknown, and another on furlough in Hindostan, of liver affection.