181
PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
V. .Lines, barracks,&c—Vide former reports; the barracks are kept in good repair and Liues, &c.
are not overcrowded.
XI. Duty and employment.—The duty is ordinary; nights in bed 4 .5 in 7.Duty
. XIV. Hospital.—The sick are treated in the Hazara Mountain Battery Hospital.— Vide Hospital,
Hazara Mountain Battery Report, paragraph XIV, for 1876.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the battery.—
Present
52. 51
Absent
Total. 55. 93
STATION.
PERIOD.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PEE ANNUM.
From
To
Strength. Admis- sions. Deaths.
Admis- sions. Deaths. Daily
a v e r a g e sick.
Head-quarters at Kohat 1st Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 37.92 74 3 2. 39 195.14 7.91 6 . 3 0
Detachment at Edwardesa-
bad.
13th Mar.1876 10th ditto 19.33 12 1 .30 83.21 6.93 1 . 5 5
TOTAL
52.51 - 86 4 2. 62 163.77 7.61 4 . 9 8
Number of deaths in hospital 2; out of hospital 2; total 4; per cent. of total strength. 7 . 1 5
invalided 2„ „
3.57
„ sent on sick leave3; „ „
5 . 3 6
„
„ of days spent in hospital 959; per admission.11 . 1 5 ; p e r m a n o f t o t a l s t r e n g t h . 1 7 . 1 4
„ „ o n s i c k l e a v e 2 8 5 ; p e r m a n
9 5 ; „ „ . 5.09
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength. 22.23
These figures are slightly in excess of last year; 4 deaths occurred against 2 in 1875, while but
2 m e n h a v e b e e n i n v a l i d e d a g a i n s t 4 i n 1 8 7 5 . T h e t o t a l n u m b e r o f d a y s s p e n t o n s i c k l e a v e i s
140 in excess of last year, and the total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
is also in excess by 4.32.
XVI. Principal causes of Sickness.—Malarial fevers and intestinal fluxes have been the Principal
chief causators of disease during the past year; out of a total of 86 admissions, 40 were due to causes of
malaria alone and 14 to dysentery and diarrhœa. Pulmonary affections caused 5, and rheuma. sickness.
tism 4 admissions into hospital; of the pulmonary affections, 2 have been returned as bronchial
catarrh, 2 acute bronchitis and 1 pneumonia, none of which terminated fatally.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—Two deaths occurred in hospital and two out of Principal
hospital, amongst men at their homes on sick leave; these latter have been returned as due to causes of
dysentery. Of' the deaths which occurred in hospital, 1 has been returned as due to ague mortality.
(quotidian); the other was caused by cardial disease.
2ndRegiment Punjab Babalry—Rohat.
I. Medical Officers.——Surgeon-Major G. Farrell was in medical charge Medical
Offi of the regiment throughout cers.
the year, but was absent
on sick and general leave
from June to September,
when Surgeons Moloney and
O'Connor officiated.
II. Location and movements.— Location and
The regiment marched from the movements.
camp of exercise at Delhi early in
January to Kohat, which it
reached on the 13th March, and
where it has since been stationed.
Small detachments have been
located at Abbottabad, in Hazara,
relieved every 6 mouths, and
at Bahadur Khel, in the Kohat District, relieved every 2 months. Some 90 men remained
at Kohat during absence of regiment at Delhi.
V.Lines, barracks, &c.——Their situation and construction is good, and they afford suffi- Lines, bar-
cient accommodation; but the ventilation of the men's barracks might be improved.
racks, &c.
VI.
Drainage.—That of the regimental lines and station generally is good. Drainage.
VII. Conservancy.—There is no system of latrines for the regiments of this garrison, Conservancy.
the men using the ground round about cantonments, a practice that at times gives rise to an
intollerable nuisance, especially in the neighbourhood of the cavalry lines, which must be
Sickness, mortality and
invaliding.
YEAR.
STATION.'
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871 Dera Ismail Khan, Feb.
1 8 6 9 .
129.
2.
4. 7.6
1872 Edwardesabad, Jan. 1872 332.9 1.4 6.7
1873
Ditto ditto
211.4 2.
5.8
1874
Ditto ditto
182.5 1.8 5.17
1875 Kohat, Jan. 1875
168. 66 1.85
Average
204.89 1.81 5.85
1876 Kohat
194.91 1.43 5.90
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