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MYSORE DIVISION.
have not been inspected. I need not say that I have directed him to examine them all and
vaccinate those who require it. I do not think it necessary to comment upon the returns
of each regiment. I shall inculcate upon Medical Officers the necessity for vaccinating all
unprotected persons during the current year.
The following table is an abstract of vaccinations performed by Medical Subordinates, and
scarcely requires any commentary. The aggregate numbers vaccinated (1,261) are small,
compared to the strength of troops, families, and followers. Of these 1,261 operations, 905,
or 71.8 per cent., are returned as successful :—
Corps.
UNDER 1 YEAR.
ABOVE 1 YEAR.
Grand
total.
S u c c e s s f u l .
U n s u c c e s s f u l .
D o u b t f u l .
Un k n o wn .
Total.
S u c c e s s f u l .
U n s u c c e s s f u l .
Doubt f ul .
Un k n o wn .
Tot al
Head-Quaters Sappers
and Miners.
19
4
...
1
24
81
26
...
11
118
142
23rd Regiment W.L.I.
7
. . . ...
. . .
7
20
7
...
1
28
*35
27th do. N.I.
6
1
...
3
10
1
...
... ...
1
+ 1 1
30th do. do.
6
9
. . .
. . .
15
28
20
...
...
48
63
36th do. do.
1
...
1
...
2
26
26
8
4
64
66
39th do.do.
80
21
... ...
101
85
31
. . .
. . . 116
217
8th do. do.
51
11
. . .
. . .
62
58
15
...
...
73
135
Total
170
46
1
4
221
299
125
8 16
448
669
2nd Regiment L.C.
30
...
20
...
50
55
3
7
...
65
115
4th
do. N I
37
5
...
...
42
167
42
...
2
211
253
16th do. do.
46
4
...
...
50
101
73 ...
...
174
224
Total
113
9
20
...
142
323
118
7
2
450
592
Grand Total
283
55
21
4
363
622
243
15
18
898
1,261
STATISTICAL.
The following changes in the distribution of the force serving in the two army divisions
under my superintendence occurred during the year under report :-
Mysore Division—Sappers and Miners. —The C and F Companies left for temporary
duty at Vellore on the 6th May, and returned to Bangalore on the 15th. The E Company
left for Ootacamund on the 7th and. 8th September. The A Company arrived from
Rangoon on the 12th April. The 27th Regiment (head-quarters and wing) left Bangalore
for Rangoon and Moulmein at the end of February. The head-quarters and two companies
of 23rd Regiment Light Infantry arrived at Bangalore from Quilon on the 14th October,
and a detachment from Trichoor on the 26th November.
Ceded Districts. —The 2nd Regiment Light Cavalry left Bellary on the 4th Novem-
ber, and was relieved by the 4th Regiment Light Cavalry on the 14th December. The K
Company, Sappers and Miners, left Bellary for Madras on the 14th February.
Mean annual strength .—The mean annual strength derived from the medical returns
for the year under report is as follows :—
Mysore Divi-
sion.
Ceded Dis-
tricts.
Mean annual,
strength.
European Commissioned and Non-commissioned Officers, Staff and Regimental. 162.74
Native Commissioned Officers
108.5
Non-commissioned rank and file
4,721
The strength, then, is rather below that of the previous year in Europeans and Non-
commissioned rank and file, the latter being 153 less. Troops marching within the limits
of the two commands are included. The figures will differ from the strength given in the
several sanitary reports, W. 0. F. 517, in which the strength is derived from the means of
the 12 monthly returns of strength as it stood on the 1st of each month. The mean
derived from the weekly medical returns is the more accurate, as it—if returns rendered to
medical officers from Adjutants' offices are reliable—represents the mean daily strength.
Admissions into hospitals, deaths, invaliding, and average daily sick.—Dealing first
with the large numbers (Non-commissioned rank and file) the admissions into hospital
numbered in the two army divisions 3,559, the deaths 42 ; 35 in and 7 out of hospital ;
the invalided 151, of whom 145 were pensioned and 6 discharged without pension ; the
average daily sick numbered 121.
Two months only.
† One month o nly.
Admissions
into hospitals,
deaths, &c.
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