212
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
PER.I0D,
TOTAL NUMBER
OP
Daily
average
number of.
sick.
•22.50
Pan OENT.OPSTERNGTH
PER ANNVII.
.
'
STATION
.
'
From
..
To
Strength. .
- Admia-
.
lions, Deaths.
577'35 1,239
21
• -
„,,—„..
7101. 1s°.
. . _
Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
.
.
1st January ... 31st December
Head-quarters at. Dora Ismail
214'60 3.63 4'01
Khan and Kohat.
'Detachment at liahadur 3rd March ... 7th May
1 60'
29
1
1'07 133'70 4.61 1.78
' .Khel.
j 4th September 8th November
_
TOTAL
. •••
...
•••
603.92 1,268 I -22
23.57 209796 3.6 .
4 3.90
Number of deaths in hospital 22 ;• out of hospital 2; total 24; per cent, of total strength
.
3.27
„ invalided
•..
...
".
20;
„
”
... 2'72
„
sent on sick leave...
„ of days spent in hospital
12;
„
".
...
,,
8,601. ; per admission 6.78 ; per man of total strength
... 1.63
... 11.73
.
,.,
on sick leave 1,250 ; per man 104.16;
„
$)
... 110
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.., 13.43
Sickness.
There wasan increase of 4'7 fever cases, of 1-18 pneumonia cases, and of • 1 . 05 brow-.
chitis cases per : cent. of admissions over last year. On the other hand, blistered • feet
- were more than twice as frequent at Dera Ismail Khan; . this is probably to be accounted
for •bY the larger •amount of marching done by the regiment to supply detachments .around
that 'station. Ulcers and boils were three times as numerous last .year, but there were none
'of the , frontier•sores• here which Dr. Power described in his report of the regiment for 1874. •
Principal
XTUT. Principal causes of mortality
deaths were due to pneumonia, 4 to intermit-
causes of
tent fever, 3 to remittent fever, 1 to dysentery, 1 to splenitis, and 1 to peritonitis, 1 to secondary
mortality.
•
syphilis. • • Two men died while away from the station—cause unknown. 41 cases of pneumonia
were treated during the year, and these figures show that 26 . 82 per cent. of those who suffered
from the disease died. • Last year 27 cases were treated, of whom 6 .died,. giving ,a mortality
of 22-22 per cent. of those patients.
Inspection.
The Deputy Surgeon-General made his medical and sanitary inspection ,
on the 23rd September. The regiment was occupying the centre infantry
lines, the worst in the station, • owing to their confined position, faulty con,
struction, and inadequate space ; ,.and on the day of inspection, they were
ill very bad repair ; but nothing could be done to improve them, pending
the issue of •a recommendation, which Mr. Banister .states lie warmly-supported,
for' their- entire removal and reconstruction .on another :.site. •Owing to the
wards allotted to the regiment being under repair, the sick had to be accommo-
dated in other parts of the garrison hospital, and this arrangement gave rise,
for the time being, to unavoidable crowding.
The Deputy - Surgeon-General remarks that he did • not think much of the
84 recruits; several were over aged, many were very inferiorly- developed, and
the minority only of the proper stamp.
Afeclical
Officers.
Location and
movements.
Lines, &c.
Light
Field Battery—Edvardsabad.
I. M edical Officers.'— .
-Surgeon Power held: charge from the 1st to the . 2nd
of January. Surgeon Jackson
took -it over till February
26th, when he was relieved
by• Surgeon 'Bookey, who
retained the charge for the
remainder of the year, and.
by whom this report was
-prepared. •
IL Location and moveme2z1s.—
The bead-quarters was • at Dera
Ismail Khan till the 29th, when
the • battery marched to Ed-
wardesabad, • starting on the 29th
of January and arriving on the
3rd of February.
'There was not any
thing in 'connection with--the sanitary condition..of the lines, &c., which calls
for special remark. The duty has not been excessive ; each. man had on the
average 5 . 4 nights . in bed out of _ Malarial fevers and bowel complaints
•
were the chief causes of admission into hospital.
I
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions, Deaths. Daily sick.
1 1870 ...
1871 ....
Edwardesabad, Dec. 1868
I Ditto •
...
300'
240'7
2'2
'9
6'5
6.6
1872 . ... Dera Ismail Khan, Jany.
1872
...
269 .3
1.8
•
7.5
1 1873
..
Ditto
219.5
'9
4.4
1874 • • •
Ditto
...
229'6
....
. 6'2
-251.82
1.16
6.24
Average
1875 ... Edwardesabad, Jany. 1875 213-12
1'88
4'07