PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE. 227
1st Regiment, Punjab Infantry—Dera Ghazi Khan.
I. Medical Officers.—Surgeon Bookey was in medical charge from 1st
January to 16th February;
Surgeon-Major Costello from
16th February to 13th April;
Surgeon Davis from 13t
h A p r i l t o 1 6 t h J u l y ; S u r g e o n
Macgregor from 16th July
to 13th August; Surgeon
Davis from 13th. August to
17th September; Surgeon
B. Gupta from 17th Sep
-tember to 5th November;
and Surgeon J. Kelly from
5th November to end of year.
The last-named officer has
furnished the report.
Medical
Officers.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Deaths. Daily sick.
Admissions.
1870 Kohat, Dec. 1868
230.1
2.2
5.5
1871
Ditto
181.8
1 . 2 4.7
1872 Edwardesabad, Decem-
ber 1871
203.1
2
4.5
1873
Ditto
181.4
3.1
5
1874
Ditto
167.6
1.2
4.9
Average
192.8
1.94
4.92
1875 Dera Ghazi Khan, Jan-
uary 1875
204.38 5.24
4.93
II.Location and movements.— The regiment marched from Edwardesabad (Bunnoo)
course of relief on 1st January, and arrived at Dera Ghazi Khan on the 16th. The
head-quarters moved from Dera Ghazi Khan on 11th October en roule for the camp of exercise,
Delhi; reached Naryna, near Delhi, on 8th December, and encamped there till the end of the
year. Detachments were quartered at Bunnoo, Mungrota, Hurrund and Digri, Rajanpur,
Blaundowal and Dera Ghazi Khan.
Surgeon Kelly had been in charge of the regiment for so short a time
previous to the end of the year, that his report regarding the lines, diet, clothing,
water-supply, conservancy, &c., contains but little information under these res
-pective headings. The duties were not excessive; nights in bed 5.49. The
march to Delhi agreed with the men, and it is considered probable that they
were healthier than if they had stayed in cantonments. The hospital was the
same as that occupied by the 5th Punjab Infantry in 1874. The houses for
hospital assistants and hospital establishment were defective, but as yet no
alteration has been made.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding ,—Strength of the regiment—
Present
613.55
Absent
110.92
Total
7 2 4 . 4 7
Location and
movements.
Lines, &c.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick,
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis- s i o n s . Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
of sick.
Head-quarters on march
from Edwardesabad and
at Dera Ghazi Khan.
1st Jan.
10th Oct.
477.21 741 29 21
200.27 7.83 4.40
Head-quarters on march
from Dera. Ghazi Khan
and at Delhi.
11th Oct.
31st Dec.
504.5 278
2 22.25 245.25 1.76 4 . 4 1
Detachment at Edwardesa-
bad
1st Jan.
15th Jan.
29.66
2 10.07
165.28 14.45
Detachment at Mungrota
13th ,,
31st March
42
1
.09 11.17
.21
,, at Hurrund and
•
Digri.
20th ,,
31st ,,
55.93 10
.82 91.99
1.46
,, at Rajunpur
1st April
30th Sept.
103.91 41
2.33 78.67
2.24
" at Blaundowal 10th ,,
24th ,,
25
15
.50 130.40
2
,, at Dera Ghazi
Khan.
11th Oct.
31st Dec.
211.41 168
2 21.70 353.75 4.21 10.26
TOTAL
613.55 12.54 35 30.30 204.38 5.70 4 . 9 3
Number of deaths in hospital 35; out of hospital 3; total 38; per cent. of total strength
5.24
,, invalided 25;
3.45
,, sent on sick leave 23; 3.17
„ of days spent in hospital 11,056; per admission 8.81; per man of total strength 15.26
,, on sick leave 2,530; per man 110;
3,49
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
18.75