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LAHORE DIVISION.
XIV. Hospital.—The hospital has been fully detailed in former reports. The accommoda
-tion is good and sufficient, but the building is miserably cold, and the doors fit badly. Recently,
fire-places have been constructed in the cross-wall dividing the building, one fire-place look--
ing into each; but these are practically useless. Formerly there was one iron stove in
the centre of each ward, which really heated them, or both stoves could be placed in one room
if the number of occupants were few, and one-fourth the quantity of fire-wood was necessitated.
Purdahs have been indented for, for each of the arched openings, to the number of 27. The
water of the well adjoining is unusually good and abundant.
Hospital.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—
Present
.
.
.
580.69
Absent . . .
114.60
Total . . .
695.22
Sickness,
mortality, and
invaliding.
STATION.
P E R I O D .
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
•
PER CENT OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Strength.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
D a i l y a v e r a g e
number of
sick.
Admis-
sions.
Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Heed-quarters at Feroze -
pore
. . . 1st Jan. 1875 31st Dec. 1875.
580.69
1182
3
36.43 222.66
.51
6.29
Number of deaths in hospital 3; out of hospital 2; total 5; per cent of total strength . . .
.71
" i n v a l i d e d . . . 3 9 " " . . . 5.60
" s e n t o n s i c k l e a v e . . . 2 5 ; " " " . . .
3.59
" of days spent in hospital 13,296; per admission 11.12; per man of total strength . . . 19.12
" " on sick leave 3,227; per man 129.08; " " . . . 4.64
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
. . . 23.76
XVI. Principal cause of sickness.—The unusually heavy rain as compared with former
years has no doubt been the chief cause of the excess of sickness, but if the general health of the
regiment, which, on the whole, has been remarkably good, is compared with that of the surround-
ing population, the comparison is much in favor of the former, as fevers, bowel complaints
and chest affections have been unusually severe, the admissions to the civil dispensary showing
au excess over 1874 of fevers 404 and for bowel complaints 265, which gives but an inadequate
idea of the greater prevalence throughout the whole district.
XVII. Mortality.—The mortality this year was 3 against 1 in 1874—one death from
ague complicated with splenitis, in a recruit; the two others from remittent fever.
Principal
cause of
sickness.
Mortality.
This regiment was inspected by Mr. Tresidder, Deputy Surgeon-General
of the Umballa Circle, on the 23rd. December 1875. In the barracks of
this regiment each sepoy has 57 square feet of superficial space and. 515 cubic
feet, and the floors are raised above the ground-level. The ventilation in the
barracks is well provided for by high doors and by large and small openings
in. the walls. The water is considered to be of good quality, and. was abundant;
the latrine arrangements were considered to be satisfactory; the escort duty con
-nected with the arsenal was rather heavy at times, but the men had upwards
of five nights in bed on the average. The hospital details, with some few ex-
ceptions, which were capable of being readily remedied, were considered to be
satisfactory. Mr. Tresidder considered the general appearance of the men
to be excellent.
Station Staff Hospital, Ferozepore .—Inspected on the 22nd December
1875. Mr. Tresidder reports that the former station staff hospital was burned
down in 1874, and since then the present small bungalow, which is not at all
well suited for the purpose, has been occupied; however, the new ordnance.
hospital will include accommodation for the station hospital, and therefore
much comment on the present building is unnecessary. There is a cholera or
small-pox hospital also in the station, which is considered to be sufficiently
well suited for the purpose of treating these diseases, and all the contingent
charges of it are met by the Cantonment Committee. The daily average
number of sick in the station staff hospital during the preceding twelve months
was 14 . 58, and the number of prescriptions made up for out-door patients,
principally Europeans, was 255. All the details in this hospital, as relating
to the medicines and instruments, were satisfactory.
Inspection.
Station Staff
Hospital,
Ferozepore.
Ordnance Hospital, Ferozepore.—At present the sick from the Ordnance
Department are temporarily located in a building which is but badly suited for
the purpose of a hospital, but a new one, on the standard plan sanctioned for a
Ordnance
Hospital,
Ferozepore.