Mortality.
Inspection.
216
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
O F
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
Admis-sions. Deaths.
A d m i s - s i o n s .
Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
From
To
Head-Quarters at
K o h a t .
1st January
17th January
568.80 1,232
9
28.39 216.59 1.59
4 . 9 9
On the march
18th "
23rd
"
At Edwardesabad
23rd
" 31st December
Detachment at Baha-
dur Khel.
1st
" 20th January
59
6
. . .
2.55 185.75
. . .
4 . 3 2
" a t J a n i K h e l
2nd March
2nd April
35
11 ...
0.33 78.57 ...
.94
2nd May
2nd June
lst July
29th July
1st September
2nd October
2nd November 23rd November
„ at Sheik Budin 28th April
4th July
71
8 ...
0.86 60.51
. . .
1.21
TOTAL
598.42 1,257
9
28.82 210.05 1.50
4.81
Number of deaths in hospital 9; out of hospital 10; total 19; per cent. of total strength
2.56
" invalided 25; ""
3.37
" s e n t o n s i c k l e a v e 1 0 ; "
"
1.35
" days spent in hospital 10,510; per admission 8.36; per man of total strength
14.20
" " on sick leave 1,165; per man 116.50; " " 1.57
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
15.77
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—Intermittent fever, bowel and lung diseases have
produced the greater number of admissions. The following table shows how the health of
the regiment has deteriorated since it left Kohat:—
Number of admissions.
1874.
1875.
Intermittent fever
547
804
Diarrhœa
51
59
Dysentery
18
44
Bronchitis
14
28
Pneumonia
11
1 2
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—Pneumonia, as usual, was the cause of most of
the deaths.
Mr. Banister reports that he inspected this regiment on the 26th Novem-
-ber, and that the barracks, which are inside the fort enclosure, were very
close, inadequately ventilated, and always more or less over-crowded. The
hospital is a large T shaped building, also within the entrenchment, and most
objectionably hemmed in and encroached upon by servants' houses, &c., and
by a very offensive latrine, which ought to be cleared away, and perhaps may
soon be, as a project is before the authorities for enlarging this part of the fort
and opening out a space around the hospital. The equipment necessary for
the proper treatment of the sick needed no additions.
Of the 64 recruits, 5 were considered to be over aged and several others
were inferiorly developed.
Medical
Officer.
Location and
movements.
6th Regiment, Punjab Infantry—Edwardesabad.
I. Medical Officer.— Surgeon J. T. B. Bookey held medical charge of the
regiment from the 27th of
February until the end of
the year and reports as
follows : —
II. Location and movements.
— The head-quarters of the regi-
- m e n t w a s a t D e r a I s m a i l K h a n
from the 1st January till the 29th;
the regiment then marched in
course of relief for Edwardesabad,
arriving at that station on the
3rd of February. The head--
quarters was not removed from
Edwardesabad during the re--
mainder of the year. Detach--
ments were furnished by the regi-
ment while at Dera Ismail Khan
to the frontier outposts mentioned in the annual report of last year. While at Edwardes-
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 Dera Ghazi Khan, Jany.
1869, from Kohat.
158.3
1.1
4.8
1871
Ditto
ditto
133.3
2.6
5.4
1872 Dera Ismail Khan, Feb.
1872.
174.
1.6
3.4
1873
Ditto
ditto
151.5
1.6
6.5
1874
Ditto
ditto
159.8
1.6
5.4
Average
155.38
1.70
5.10
1875 Edwardesabad, 3rd Feb.
151.26
1.8
5.16