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Clothing.
Duties.
The bazar has been kept well supplied with the various articles of food,
which were sold at a moderate price, and were of good quality. Vegetables
were abundant. No cases of scurvy were met with during the year, and no
casas of under-feeding came under Mr. Watson's notice.
The clothing of the men was of the same description as reported on in
1874.
The guard and orderly duties have been rather heavy owing to the
reduced numbers at head-quarters, and the men had but 4.77 nights in bed
nights in bed at head-quarters, and 5 . 42 with detachment at Barrackpore.
XIII. Marches and service.— The only march during the year was that of the squadron
detached to Barrackpore, which completed its march to that station during the first week of
January, arriving there on the 7th of the month. The detachment was in charge of 1st class
hospital assistant Shaikh Gool Mahomed. There was little sickness, and no events worthy
of record occurred.
XIV. Hospital.—T h e
h o s p i t a l i s t h e s a m e a s i n f o r m e r y e a r s , a n d i s e x c e l l e n t i n e v e r y
way. The dead-house which had fallen down has been rebuilt, and it is now furnished with
a dissecting table. New quarters for the hospital assistants and medical pupils are still a
desideratum. A few rezais have been supplied from regimental funds for the use of any
patients who may be admitted with insufficient bedding. There are no fire-places in the wards
of the hospital, and, indeed, they are scarcely required in this climate.
Bazar.
Marches and
service.
Hospital.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. —Strength of the regiment
Present . . .
398.85
Absent . . .
59.17
Total . . .
458.02
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
S T A T I O N .
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admix-
sions.
D e a t h s i n h o s p i t a l .
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarter at Lucknow 1st January . . . 31st December 263
272
2
10.47 102,43 0.76 3.98
Detachment at Barrackpore Ditto . . .
Ditto . . .
135.85 146
1
4.55 107.47 0.73 3 34
TOTAL . . .
. . .
. . .
398.85 418
3
15.02 104.80 0.75 3.76
No. of deaths in hospital 3; out of hospital 1; total 4; per cent. of total strength . . .
0.87
" i n v a l i d e d . . . 1 1 ; " " . . .
2.40
"sent on sick leave2; " " . . .
0.43
" of days spent in hospital 5,503; per admission 13.16; per man of total strength . . .
12.01
" "
on sick leave 550 ; per man 275; " " . . .
1.20
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . .
13.21
The number of admissions per cent, of strength has been greater during the past year than
in 1874, but less than in 1872 and 1873; greater in the detachment at Barrackpore than at
head-quarters. The daily average sick per cent. of strength is less than in 1873, but rather
more than in 1872 and 1874, and rather greater at head-quarters than in the detachment.
The mortality has been rather greater than in the three previous years, and the percentage of
deaths rather greater at head-quarters than at Barrackpore.
The number invalided is in excess of the three previous years, but below the average of the
native army generally for some years past. No man has been sent on sick leave from head
-quarters, but two were on sick leave at the close of 1874, and the days spent by them on
sick leave in 1875 are included in the above calculation. Two men were sent on sick leave
from the detachment at Barrackpore. I do not think that the sickness and mortality have
been greater than in other regiments or communities in the station.
Invaliding.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— Ague, as usual, has given rise to far more admissions
than any other disease. The total number admitted was 148; but of these, only 52 were at
head-quarters, and the remaining 96 in the detachment at Barrackpore: an enormous
difference when the relative strength is considered. During their stay at Lucknow, this
disease has never been very prevalent amongst the men, and the cases during the past year
have been very mild. One cannot but associate this, to some extent at least, with the excellent
natural drainage of the cantonment and its neighbourhood. Rheumatic diseases have occurred
in about the same proportion at head-quarters as in the two previous years of the regiment's
stay at Lucknow, and are above the average of what I have observed in other stations; there
were no admissions from this cause in the detachment at Barrackpore.
There has been only one admission tor primary syphilis, a great reduction on the two
previous years; but there were four for secondary syphilis.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Syphilis.