XIX. Vaccination.— All recruits are now vaccinated at the frontier on enlistment, and are
carefully examined in joining, the regiment. All children, both of camp followers and sepoys, are
vaccinated within a couple of months of their birth. The regiment throughout is well
protected
small-pox.
XX. Recommendations.— The recommendations made were mainly directed towards pre-
vention of exposure to cholera influences, either through strangers coming into the station
from infected places, or through our men being allowed to leave their station and go into
infected villages. A modified quarantine was thus kept up for months while cholera was in
the district, and it proved sufficient for prevention of the disease.
Inspected by Dr. G. H. Ray, Deputy Surgeon-General of the Lahore
Circle, on the 4th June 1875, and the following observations have been.
extracted from his report :
There were no latrines in use with this regiment, and, instead, the men are
allowed to resort to the hillside for necessary purposes ; the water-supply is de-
rived from springs, and, it is said, was all that could be desired. Dr. Ray
reports the men in this regiment suffer much from blisters and ulcers of the
feet when on the line of march. The medical officer of the regiment attributes
some of his most serious cases to debility, caused by the constant duty which
the men of the Simla detachment have to undergo when at that sanitarium.
All the details in hospital in connexion with the comfort or treatment of the
sick were satisfactory, with the exception that there was no bath-room for the
use of the patients.
RAWAL PINDI DIVISION
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF RAWAL PINDI, JHELUM, SIALKOT AND TALAGANG).
Average strength present during the year . . .
Cavalry 1124.77 ; Infantry
. . .
3735.53
Average daily sick per cent. of the average strength
. . .
"
3.08
"
2.56
Ratio of mortality per cent. of the average strength
. . .
" .58
"
.76
1 4 t h Be n g a l Ca v a l r y ( Ca n c e r s ) —Ra wa l P i n d i .
Surgeon G. Watson, M.B., reports :—
157
R A W A L P I N D I D I V I S I O N .
as he was about to start for Meean Meer to appear before the Invaliding Committee of 1875.
The two next cases proving fatal were (1) a lad of 17 that had been rejected as unfit to be
enlisted as a sepoy on account of badly formed chest, but subsequently passed as a bugler, died of
double pneumonia on the sixth day; and (2) a very severe case of acute pleurisy, with rapid and
extensive effusion of lymph and semi-purulent matter in both pleural cavities. The 4th case
that proved fatal was that of a sepoy who had been sent before the Invaliding Committee of
1874 on account of old standing rheumatic affection of the knee with large exostosis from
the head of tibia; was rejected and remained 12 months subsequently in hospital; was passed by
the Committee of 1875. Immediately on return from Meean Meer he returned to hospital
and died of prostration five days after. The 5th case was one purely of Terai fever in a recruit
of 18, just joined the regiment, death being result of prostration from persistent recurrences
of the paroxysm in spite of treatment. The 6th case was that of a man admitted to hospital
in 1873 for scrofula. During the two years he had been in hospital he never became in a condition
that would permit of his discharge, and for humanity's sake he had been retained in hospital
during his life-time without hope of his recovery, or even of improvement in his condition.
Prior to death, the mesenteric glands could be felt beneath the abdominal paricles, each as large
as a large clenched fist.
XVIII. Epidemics.— Measles were epidemic in the early part of . the year and soon after
the rains first fell. Cholera became epidemic along the greater part of the hill ranges from
Mussoorie northwards. The disease attacked the detachment at Simla, 4 men becoming affected
with the disease there in July with 2 casualties, although for nearly 3 months cholera was severely
epidemic in the immediate neighbourhood of Bakloh. Case occurred in the station ; no other dis-
ease was epidemic.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Recommen-
dation.
Inspection.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . . Deoli, December 1869 . . .
228.
1.2
8.4
1871 . . .
Ditto
ditto . . .
134.2
1.
5.1
1872 . . .
Ditto
ditto . . .
156.5
1.
5.8
1873 . . . Ditto
ditto . . .
170.4
.8
6.2
1874 . . . Rawal Pindi, January 1874
117.16
1.10
4.4
Average . . .
161.25
1.02
5.99
1875 . . . Rawal Pindi
76.85
.87
2.45
1. Medical Officers. — S u r g e o n
Major B. Kendall was in
medical charge of the regi-
ment from 1st January to
10th February. Surgeon Geo.
Watson, M. D., assumed charge
on the 10th February, and
remained to the end of the
year.
The regiment has been
stationary throughout the
year, and furnished no
detachments.
Medical
Officers.
Location.
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