YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870
Dera Ismail Khan, Janu-
a r y 1 8 6 9 .
182.5
2.8
6.
1871
Ditto
119.8
3.4
1872
Edwardesabad, Jan. 1872 318.1
6.3
1873
Ditto
312.1
.3
5.5
1874
Ditto
299.5
2.8
6.
Average
246.4
1.18
5.44
1875
Dera Ismail Khan, Janu-
ary 1875.
264.58 2.82
7.01
Location and
movements.
Principal
causes of
sickness and
mortality.
Inspection.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Medical Offi
-cers.
Topography.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality, and
invaliding.
No. 3 Punjab Light Field Battery—Dera Ismail Khan.
I. Medical Officers.—Surgeon-Major A. P. Holmes, 1st to 29th January; Surgeon
E. Sanders, 29th January to
30th April; Surgeon S. M.
Brereton, 1st May to 18th June;
Surgeon O. Duke, 19th June . to
31st July; Surgeon J. Duke,
1st August to 26th Novem
-ber; Surgeon-Major H. Cookson,
26th November to 31st December.
The lastnamed officer has
submitted the report.
II. Location and movements.
— A t E d w a r d e s a b a d , u n t i l 2 4 t h
January, on which date the bat
- t e r y m a r c h e d f o r D e r a I s m a i l
Khan, where it arrived on the 29th,
occupying six days on the march.
No events occurred on the march.
III. Topography—Has been
frequently described. The river threatens to invade the cantonment; protective works
are in hand. The climate is very hot in summer and very cold, damp and cloudy in winter.
There is nothing in the situation or sanitary condition of the lines which
calls for any special remark. The drainage is described as being indifferent
in consequence of the dead level of the ground on which the lines are built.
The duty has not been excessive; each man had 4.25 nights in bed.
XIV . Hospital.—Hospital accommodation is bad; a special report upon this subject has
been submitted.
XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.— Strength of the battery
—
Present
81.26
Absent
25.01
TOTAL
106. 27
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
T OT AL NUMBE R OF
Daily average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admissions. Deaths.
Admissions. Deaths. D a i l y
a ve r a ge
sick.
Head-quarters
at Edwarde-
sabad and
Dera Ismail
Khan.
1st January. 31st December 81.26
215
1
5.70 264.58 1.23 7.01
Number of deaths in hospital 1; out of hospital 2; total 3 ; per cent. of total strength
2.82
„ sent on sick leave
4; „
,,
3.76
" of days spent in hospital 2,082; per admission 9.68; per man of total strength
19.59
" " on sick leave 458; per man 114.5; „ "
4 . 3 1
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
23.90
XVI & XVII. Principal causes of sickness and mortality,— Intermittent fevers formed
the chief cause of admission; there were several varieties of the disease. The only death was
from pneumonia.
At his inspection, made on the 2nd of December, Mr. Banister
states that he found the lines of this battery to be scrupulously clean and
orderly, but improvements were needed in the drainage, and there ought not
to be any difficulty in introducing them, as the river is so close at hand and
the ground slopes slightly towards it. The compartment occupied by the sick
of this battery in the garrison hospital was not overcrowded; many medicines
had run short; but, with this exception, the equipment was complete. All the
recruits, 10 in number, were eligible.