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been frequently described in previous reports. A heavy fall of rain occurred
on. the 25th of July, amounting, Surgeon Roe was informed, to 9 inches,
and with this exception he states that the season was a remarkably dry one.
The sanitary condition of the lines is stated to have been good, and.the
drainage and latrines were as has been described in previous reports. Under the
headings of water-supply, diet, and clothing, all the remarks are satisfactory.
The duty during the year was light, as each man had an average of 8.84
nights in bed.
Lines, &c.,
XIV. Hospital .—The hospital remains exactly as formerly described. It is in excellent Hospital.
repair, well lighted and warmed in the cold season, and the bedding is ample, consisting of
tow matresses, tow pillows and a clean sheet of drill for each patient, in addition to the man's
own duree and rezai. Nothing more can be desired under this heading; the servants' and
other ouf.houses are in good repair and sufficient for all wants_
XV Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment
Present
601.81
Absent
91.89
Total
6 9 3 . 7 0
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength
TOTAL NUMBER
O F
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 sick.
Head-quarters—Rawal Pindi 1st Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 601.81 290
9.30 48.18
1.54
Number of deaths in hospital 0; out of hospital 6; total
6; per cent of total strength
.86
„ invalided
23;
„ „
3.31
„ sent on sick leave
3; „
„
.43
„ of days spent in hospital 3,063; per admission 10.56; per man of total strength
4 . 4 1
„ „ on sick leave 414; per man
138.;
„ „
.60
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
5.01
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—The causes of sickness during the past year have been
so exceedingly mild, that there is nothing worth recording under this head. The greater num-
ber were mild cases of fever, with a few cases of bronchitis and. bowel complaints, all of
which ran an exceedingly mild course and yielded to treatment easily.
principal
causes of
sickness.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality .—No deaths occurred in hospital or at head-quarters
throughout the year, except in the case of Lieutenant William Harris, who was killed by
a bullet wound of the chest, passing through the lungs and causing almost instantaneous death.
Mortality.
XVIII. Epidemics.—Cholera broke out at Rawal Pindi on the 20th July. No cases
occurred in the regiment until the 3rd September, when a Sikh was attacked early in the
morning. He was at once removed to huts which had been erected at some distance from the
lines for the treatment of such cases; the disease ran a very mild course and the man was
perfectly well in a few days. The section among whom the case occurred was at once removed
into camp and kept there for 12 days. No fresh cases took place either among them or among
the other men in the lines; the hut in which the man was attacked was thoroughly cleaned and
purified in every possible way and no sickness of any kind followed. On the 7th September a
hospital sweeper was attacked at 12 noon; he was at once removed into the cantonment huts
erected for camp followers and he died there in a few hours. This man had removed the first
motions passed by the Sikh who was taken ill on the 3rd, but had in no other way attended
upon him, as there was a separate establishment of sweepers engaged for the cholera huts,
and I cannot trace any connection between the cases. No other cases took place either among the
men or the camp followers, and the general health of the regiment was excellent. During the
whole time that the epidemic. was prevalent in the station, the men were prevented from going
into the city and sudden bazars, and this precaution was, I think, of much use in saving the
men from exposure to the poison, and preventing fresh cases from taking place; the lines,
bazar, &c., were kept very clean, food well attended to, and nothing more was necessary to be
done.
Epidemics.
XIX. Vaccination .—No operation of this kind was performed during the year, as the
recruits seem to be well protected.
Vaccination.
Inspection .—Inspected by the Deputy Surgeon-General of the Rawal
Pindi Circle on the 23rd December 1876. He reports that the lines were clean
and in good order. Trees, which have grown up, will afford a grateful shade to
the huts in summer, as well as protect them from the cold winter winds. The
latrines (one for men, and one for women) were about 800 yards distant to the
south-west of the lines, and were not conducted on the dry-earth system. The
Inspection.