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XIII. Marches and service.—The regiment marched from the camp of exercise, Delhi, on
26th January for Bakloh, where it arrived on 6th March. The health of the men on the road
was very good.
XIV. Hospital.—The hospital has been previously described. During the past year a
new ward 62x18 has been added, with a cubic measurement of about 24,300 feet, which
brings the hospital up to the standard plan of accommodation. The small room previously
existing at each angle of the hospital has been removed, and two rooms have been added at
each end of the hospital for the purpose of a dispensary, office, store-room and bath-room.
A guard-room, cook-house, dead-house, latrine, servants' houses, quarters for hospital
assistants, all according to the standard plan, have been built. The quarters for the hospital
assistants have been made the subject of reference, as they are not, in their present form,
adapted to the habits of a native. A zenana compound is required at the back, with a door
opening into it from the room. This was suggested to the Executive Engineer, but without
sanction of Government he could not depart from the standard plan. A house, situated
at a distance of 475 feet from the hospital, has been made over as an "infectious disease ward,"
and is admirably suited for the purpose. The house contains three rooms, with a cubic
measurement of 7,488 feet, with a bath-room on the east end and a front verandah. The
building is of kutcha-pucka masonry. The interior is mud plaster and white-washed, with
mud floor; exterior, pucka pointed, with slate roof.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. —Strength of the regiment—
Present
648.39
Absent
71.82
Total
720.21
Marches and
service.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER O F
Daily
average
number of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
A d m i s -
sions. Deaths.
A d mi s -
sions. Deaths. Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters at Bakloh and
Delhi.
1st Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 623.65 557
6 20.16 89.31
. 9 6 3.23
Depôt at Bakloh
1st Jan. 1876 6th Mar. 1876 150
24 2
8.10 88.72 7.37 5.40
TOTAL
648.39 581
8 22.09 89.60 1.23 3.40
Number of deaths in hospital 8; out of hospital 2; total. 10; per cent, of total strength
1.38
„ invalided 1
3 ; „ „
1.80
„ sent on sick leave 1; „
„
.13
„ of days spent in hospital 8,088; per admission 13.92; per man of total strength
11.21
„ on sick leave 73; per man 73;
„ „
.10
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
11.31
XVI. Principal causes of sickness. —The general health of the regiment has been good
during the past year. The total number of admissions to hospital being 581, as compared with
782 in 1875. Malarious fevers, as usual, caused most of the admisssions, there being 191 under
this head. The great majority of these cases were ague of the quotidian type; only 9 cases
of tertian, and 4 of quartan. In the previous year the admissions from paroxysmal fevers
were 269; but the increase, no doubt, as stated by Surgeon-Major Chesnaye in his annual
report, was due to the state of country through which the regiment marched in October
and November, and not to the climate of Bakloh. Dysentery caused 9 admissions, against
14 in 1875; diarrhœa 11, against 48; rheumatic affections 36, against 63; venereal diseases,
and sequelæ 34, against 30. The admissions from syphilis, 34, occurred chiefly at the same time,
the men apparently having got hold of some "fire brand" residing in one of the adjoining vil-
lages. The disease was of a bad form, and the "chancre" the "soft suppurating sore,"
with a tendency to spread rapidly and to become phagedenic, in some instances complicated
with "phimosis." Conjunctivitis gave 31 admissions, against 24 in 1875. Ophthalmia
is a common disease Bakloh, caused chiefly by the intense glare in the hot season.
Diseases of the respiratory system gave 33 admissions, including two cases of phthisis, two
acute bronchitis, two pneumonia, and six acute pleurisy. In 1875, admissions from chest dis-
eases were 42; injuries of various kinds incidental to the duties of a soldier, including one case
of gunshot wound of the head from the accidental bursting of the man's gun, have caused 121
admissions, against 190 in 1875, being nearly a fourth of the total number of admissions for
the year.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—Ten deaths have occurred in the regiment during
the year. Of these, six happened in the regimental hospital at head-quarters, two in the depôt
hospital; one casualty took place out of hospital, in a sepoy returning from cutting wood in the
jungle, and a recruit died at Gurdaspur on his way to join the regiment. The mortality hás
been less during the year under report than during the preceding year.
XVIII. Epidemics.—No epidemic has taken place.
XIX. Vaccination. —All recruits were vaccinated on enlistment. All the children in the
lines, not previously protected, have been successfully vaccinated.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.