NAGPORE FORCE.
119
Y e a r s
1872.
1871.
1870.
Strength ...
...
...
.,.
...
...
2,980
2,852
3,056
--
—
Admitted. I Died.
Admitted. Died. Admitted. Died.
CLASS III.—Conditions, &c.
General debility
..
...
. . .
53
...
66
...
38
2
CLASS IV.—Poisons.
1
•••
2
•••
1
...
CLASS V.—Injuries.
Accidental
...
•••
•••
•• •
223
1
218
...
188
. . .
CLASS VI.—Surgical Operations.
Not yet diagnosed
...
...
...
2
...
1
...
. . .
...
Grand Total ...
3,319
39
2,908
17
2,935
45
From this table it will be seen that the past has been an unhealthy year to the troops
composing the Nagpore Force, both as regards the number of admissions and of deaths. But
while 2,790 admissions in 1871 gave an average daily sick of 88 . 19, the 3,214 admissions of
last year gave only 94 . 29, instead of 101 . 59, which would have been the proportional average
daily sick. The increased number of deaths is doubtless due in some measure to the
tendency to run into averages, and only— compensates for the small mortality of last year.
There appears, moreover, to have been an unusual tendency to diseases of the respiratory
organs, there having been 9 deaths from pulmonary affections, while of 13 deaths from fever
many arose from pulmonary complications.
The following table exhibits the number of admissions from ague and the total number
in each station, without reference to regiments, from 1870 to 1872 :—
Stations.
1872.
1871.
1870.
Admissions. Agues.
Admissions.
Agues.
Admissions.
Agues.
Kamptee
...
••.
1 , 2 4 3
568
1,003
425
922
422
Raepur ...
...
...
. . .
597
293
677
385
841
576
Hoshungabad ...
...
...
315
394
235
125
276
187
Seetabuldee ...
...
. . .
561
287
475
235
438
266
Chanda ...
...
..
...
189
72
138
56
175
97
Seroncha
-.
-.
.-
309
93
253
94
191
67
Total ...
3,214
1,707
2,781
1,220
2,843
1,515
From this it will be seen that, with the exception of Raepur, every station has been
more unhealthy than in 1871, The healthiness of Raepur may be attributed to there
having been no rain after September ; but, where stations separated by long distances are all
unusually sickly, it is idle to speculate upon causes, otherwise I should have attributed the
unhealthiness of the troops at Seroncha to the state of the barracks, the more so that the
civil population were unusually healthy.
The following table shows the number of casualties in each regiment and the diseases
by which they occurred :—
C o r p s
A g u e
C h r o n i c D i a r - h œ e G e n e r a l D r o p - s y
A s t t h m a
P u e u m o n i a
Peritonitis
Multiple in-jury
P h t h i s i s P u l - m o n a l i s
E p i l e p s y
R e m i t t e n t F e v e r
B r o n c h i t i s
D y s e n t e r y
D i a r r h o e a
A s c a r i s L u m - b r i c o i d e s
S i m p l e C o n t i n u e d F e v e r
S i m p l e C h o l e r a
A h æ m i a .
M a l i g h a n t C h o l e r a
T o t a l
1st Regiment L. C....
35th
do.
N.I. ...
...
2
. ..
1
...
1 . . . 1
•••
3
•••
1
...
1
•••
...
• • •
•.
...
...
•••
...
•••
...
• • •
...
•••
...
...
...
•••
...
•••
...
...
...
...
10
11th
do.
3
1
1 ... 3 3 1 1 1 ...
... ... ... 14
20th
do do. ... 2 ...
1 ... ... ... ...
5
3 2 n d d o . d o . 2
1
2 1 1
7
D etail s, Kamptee
... ... ...
... ..... ... ...
... ... ... ...
•••
...
..• ••• ...
...
Total ... 9 1
2 1
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4 1 1
2 1 3 3 1 1 1
1
2 1 1 36