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5. Table D (page v) shows the total number of men invalided for discharge
and physical disability is 1,214. Of these 167 were discharged from the Presidency
Circle, 362 from the Poona Circle, 420 from the Mhow Circle, 144 from Sind, and
121 from the regiments on Field Service. Of the total 1,214, there were 672, or
rather more than half, discharged for old age and debility, 89 for rheumatic
affections, 65 for diseases of the eye, 36 for syphilitic disease, 28 for scorbutic
affections, and 324 for various other complaints. It is worthy of note that of these
last only 13 were for malarial fever, which is a very small proportion, consider-
ing the large number of admissions into hospital for this disease. It would seem,
however, that this does not cause so much permanent disability as rheumatic
and other affections mentioned above; nevertheless it—probably in conjunction
with other illness—was an important agent in producing the debility for which
672 men, entered in the return under "old age and debility," were discharged.
Of the 89 men invalided for rheumatic affections 45, or more than half, were
in the Northern Division; 19 men were invalided from the Poona Circle alone for
syphilitic disease, out of a total of 36 in the whole Presidency.
The greatest number of men invalided from any one regiment was 76 from
the 6th N. I.; there were 73 men from the 11th N. I., 57 from the 19th N. I.,
and 61 from the 22nd.
The regiment which invalided the fewest number of men was the 3rd Sind
Horse, which discharged only 5 men; the Poona Horse, 3rd Light Cavalry, and
the 1st N. I. discharged only 10 each, and the 24th N. I. 15.
6. During the year 647 men were sent on sick leave to their homes. Of
these 65 were from Field Service, 94 from Sind, 135
from the Poona Circle, 166 from the Presidency Circle,
and 187 from the Northern Division.
Of the total 647, there were 249 men granted leave for debility from malarial
fever (and of these no less than 110 were from the Northern Division). Leave
was granted to 51 men for rheumatic affections, and to 30 for syphilitic diseases
(of which 10, or one-third, were from the Poona Circle).
It will be seen from Table E (page vi) that 57 men obtained leave from the
28th Regiment—this is the highest number from any one regiment in the Presi-
dency. There were 44 men from the 10th Regiment and 39 from the 25th N. I.
The fewest men were sent from the 12th and 13th N. I., which granted leave
to 3 and 4 men, respectively. The 24th Regiment and Poona Horse, too, only sent
5 men each.
7. The largest number of admissions to hospital was for malarial fever,
there being 21,768, being a ratio of 56.9 per cent. to
the total number of admissions. This compares favour-
ably with last year, when the ratio per cent. was 59.7.
The ratio per cent to admissions in the different Circles was as follows:
—Sind Circle 48.6, Poona Circle 50.8, and Presidency Circle 53.6, whilst in the
Cabul Expedition it was only 43.7. There was a total of 101 deaths from this
cause.
The greatest number of cases occurred in the 20th Regiment N. I. at Baroda,
where there were 1,437 cases, and the 3rd Regiment N. L. I. at Hydrabad furnished
1,321 cases; in the 24th Regiment at Mehidpoor there were 1,316; the regiments
stationed at Bhooj, Neemuch, and Nusseerabad also suffered heavily. In the 19th
Regiment N. I., stationed in the Bolan Pass, there were only 559 cases of malarial
fever, with 15 deaths; in the 16th Regiment at Malegaum there were 334 cases
and 11 deaths.
8. There were 2,530 cases of injuries of various
kinds, or 6.6 per cent. of the total admissions, 14 cases
of which terminated fatall
y .
Sick leave.
Malarial fever.
Injuries.