Recommend-
ations.
Inspection.
GWALIOR DISTRICT.
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medical pupils, who are thus obliged to live in huts at a distance of some 40 yards from the
building. There is a latrine attached which suffices for hospital puposes. Water is supplied
from two fine pucka wells. The hospital is always kept as clean as the nature of the building
will permit. The accommodation is sufficient for a small number of patients only.
Present
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 349.65
Absent.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 102.18
Total
.
. 451.83
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding .—Strength of the regiment.—
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From.
To
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters at Delhi Camp
of Exercise.
1st Jan. 1876 29th Jan. 1876 360.49
16
...
5.89 56.03 ...
1.63
Detachment at Morar
Ditto ...
Ditto ...
87.25
3 ...
5.79 43.41 ...
6.63
Head-quarters at Morar
30th Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 348.97 202
1
8.33 62.89 .30 2.38
TOTAL
.
.
349.65 221
1
8.14 63.20 .28 2.32
No. of deaths in hospital none; out of hospital 1; total
. 1; per cent. of total strength.
0.22
„ invalided .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
20 ;
„
” .
4.42
„ sent on sick leave .
.
.
.
.
.
.
10 ;
„
„
.
2.21
„ of days spent in hospital 2,981; per admission .
. 13.48; per man of total strength
.
6.59
”
„
on sick leave 1,769 ; per man
.
. 176.90; „ ”
3.91
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
. . . .
10.50
From the hospital books I gather that the general health of the regiment for the past
year has been excellent. The regiment has been healthier during the past year than it has been
for the last six. No deaths have occurred in hospital during the period under review. Malarious
fevers give an increase of 52 above that of 1875,49 above 1874, and 14 above 1873; still, on
the other hand, dysentery and diarrhœa show a great decrease.
XIX. Vaccination.—Five men have been vaccinated during the year successfully. No case
of small-pox has occurred. All the men, including recruits, either show marks of small-pox or
vaccination.
XX.Recommendations.—An estimate for a new hospital in the new lines has been submit-
ted, but has not yet been passed. Also more accommodation in regard to the latrines have been
asked for, but will hardly now be sanctioned, as the regiment moves so soon.
Inspection.—Deputy Surgeon-General Thorpe inspected the regiment and
lines on the 15th January. The drainage was in good order, and the general con-
servancy arrangements satisfactory. The hospital is always kept in a state of
cleanliness ; there was an ample supply of drugs, and the instruments were
clean and in good order. There were 11 men in hospital on the day of inspection.
“The health of the regiment,” writes Dr. Thorpe, “has been very good during
the year.”
9th Regiment Native Infantry—Morar.
Vaccination.
I. Medical Officers.—The following Medical Officers held charge of the Medical
Regiment during the year : Officers.
Surgeon C. W. S. Deakin,
from 1st January till 7th
February ; Surgeon L. E.
Eades, from 8th till 10th Feb-
ruary ; Surgeon A. Barclay,
from llth till 14th February;
Surgeon L. E. Eades, from
15th February till 19th
March ; Surgeon-Major T.G.
Skardon, from 20th March
till 6th June ; Surgeon
S. Borah, from 7th June
till 17th October ; Surgeon
A. H. Williams, from 18th
October till 31st December. The last named officer furnishes the annual report.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
. Lucknow, Feb. 1870 .
95.5
1.4
3.2
1872
. Ditto
ditto
.
160.1
2
4.3
1873
. Ditto
ditto
.
129.5
3
5.5
1874
. Morar, Jan. 1874
.
158.4
1.14
6.49
1875
. Ditto
.
120.10
.42
4.82
Average
.
132.72
1.59
4.84
1876
. Morar
.
136.85
1.56
3.64