Drainage.
Conservancy
and latrines.
Water-supply.
Diet.
Duty,
& c .
Marches, ser
- v i c e , & c .
Hospital.
Sickness, mor
-tality
and in-validing.
PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
VI. Drainage.—Water did not lie in the vicinity of the huts during the rains, and
considering the situation, the drainage of the station may be said to be fair.
VII. Conservancy and latrines.—Nothing need be added to the remarks made last year.
The arrangements seem fairly good.
VIII. Water-supply—The supply is ample. The well at the hospital, and one of
those at the lines (both pucka), were found on examination to contain a good deal of
organic matter; but otherwise the water-supply is good.
IX. Diet.—Nothing need be added to last year's remarks.
XI. Duty and employment of the usual nature, consisting of parades, musketry, light
infantry practice on the hill-sides, guards and detachment duties.
XIII. Marches, service, &c. —The regiment did not proceed on active service during the
year. The only march, besides those attendant on the few days of camp duties at Delhi,
was the return to this station from the exercise camp at Delhi. As on the march down,
the arrangements were uniformly good. Rain fell heavily during the last two or three days of
the march, but with this exception the weather was fine, the marches easy, and the health
of the men remarkably good.
XIV Hospital.—As in last year's report, I have again to comment on the totally
inadequate provision and accommodation for the sick men. Fortunately, this year, as the sub
- j o i n e d d e t a i l s s h o w , w a s a n u n u s u a l l y h e a l t h y o n e ; b u t t w o s m a l l w a r d s , a s d e s c r i b e d i n m y l a s t
year's report, and of the nature there detailed, are quite insufficient for the possible require
-ments of a regiment numbering 737 men.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding—Strength of the regiment.—
Present
601. 02
Absent
134. 05
Total
735.07
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER OF
Daily
average number
of sick
P E R CE NT . OF S T R E NGT H
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admi s - s i o n s .
Deaths.
Admis- sions. Deaths. Daily
average sick.
H e a d - q u a r t e r s a t D e l h i a n d
Abbottabad.
1st Jan. 1876 3st Dec. 1876 549.7 5 4 0
1
14.3 98.23 . 1 8 2.60
Depôt at Abbottabad Ditto
10th Mar. „ 207. 19
4.8 47.99
2.31
Detachment at Ughi
2nd Aug. 1876 8th Sep. "
26.
3
.4 111.72
1.54
2nd Oct "
7th Nov.
2
. 3
7 6 . 1 7
1 . 1 5
2 n d D e c . " 31st Dec. "
1
. 1
4 6 . 8 4
.38
TOTAL
i601.02 565
1 15.4 94.01
. 16 2.51
No. of deaths in hospital 1; out of hospital 3; total 4; per, cent. of total strength
.54
„ invalided 20; " 2.72
sent on sick leave7; "
. 9 5
" o f d a y s s p e n t i n h o s p i t a l 5 , 5 4 6 ; p e r a d m i s s i o n 9.
8 1 ; p e r m a n o f t o t a l s t r e n g t h 7.54
" "on sick leave 477; per man 68.14 " "
. 6 5
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
8.19
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—The health of the regiment may fairly be pronounced
to have been very good throughout the year, and shows a further marked improvement on the
favourable returns of last year. The climate of the station, the long march to Delhi and back,
and the frequent exercises on the hill-sides, are all to be commended for this. Intermittent
: Fevers, though still the main cause of admissions, have been mainly of a mild type, and the low
daily rate of sick, the slight mortality, and the small number of total admissions, are all highly
satisfactory. Out of the 565 admissions, 279 were from fevers, 39 from respiratory affections,
70 from injuries and accidents, 69 disorders of the digestive system (including 30 from
diarrhœa and dysentery), 31 skin diseases, and 26 venereal, the remainder being Made up of
small numbers from different classes.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—Only one death occurred in hospital during the
year. This case was one of violent remittent fever as far as one could judge of its history.
Congestion of the brain set in the night of his admission, and he died the following day.
One man died in February while on sick leave, on which he had proceeded in . September 1875,
of tuberculosis; two other men died at their homes in July and October respectively, causes
unknown.
XVIII. Epidemics.—One case of cholera occurred in August, clearly an imported one.
The man recovered, and though cholera raged freely in the, district, and some cases occurred
in the civil station; owing to the prompt and admirable quarantine arrangements made by the
authorities, no further case occurred in the regiment. Intermittent and remittent fevers caused
a. large number of admissions, but the types were uniformly mild and amenable to treatment,
and organic changes seemed to occur in very few . cases: one case of maculated typhus also
occurred.
Princi pal
causes of
dekness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics.