Clothing.
Boot.
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PRESIDENCY DISTRICT.
these measures followed by any improvement. Such a large number of patients continuing
in this condition without improvement, caused further enquiries to be made concerning the
nature of food in use, and checks were introduced in order to ascertain the nature and quantity
of food brought into hospital. It was found that patients for whom certain articles of food
were ordered, and for whom advances were obtained, did not purchase the articles considered
necessary for them, but retained the money for other purposes. After this discovery, any
extra dieting in hospital was taken entirely out of the hands of the patients, and each man
was furnished with his extra diet in the form of a ration. A considerable improvement
followed on this, and the numbers in hospital rapidly diminished. A very large number of
men in the regiment have, however, got their constitutions so irretrievably damaged, that it is
questionable if ever they will become fit again for military service, and this is most notably
the case among the recruits.
X. Clothing.— The clothing supplied seems to be very well adapted to all purposes in
ordinary cantonment duties. Recruits do not seem to be very well supplied with clothing
of any kind. The boot worn is the ordinary ammunition boot. It is not made to fit the foot of
the wearer—scarcely ever does fit, and so cannot be looked on as a very serviceable article of
covering.
XI. Duty and employment.— The men were employed in their own regimental guard duties
and parades, and station duties, such as guards and orderlies. The number of nights in bed
varied from about 3 to sometimes 1½ and a little over. When the men became weakly, they
were relieved of some of their parades, and eventually, of all duties beyond their regimental
guards.
XIV. Hospital.— The hospital the same as described last year. When the regiment
left Barrackpore, the Alipore hospital was occupied. At both places the hospitals were every
-thing that could be desired. At Barrackpore a large number of the sick were treated in
tents, the hospital accommodation having proved insufficient on account of the large amount
of sickness.
Duty.
Hospital.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—
Present
.
.
.
608.82
Absent
.
.
.
74.20
Total
.
.
. 683.00
Sickness, mor--
tality 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 Barrackpore
and Alipore . . . 1st Jan. 1875
31st Dec. 1875
490.65 1,140
28
76.16 232.24 5.70
15.52
Detachment at Dum-Dum . . . 1st Jan. 1875
Ditto . . .
118.17
266
5
5.10 225.09 4.23
4.31
TOTAL . . .
. . .
. . .
608.82
1,406
33
81.26 230.93 5.42
13.34
Number of deaths in hospital 33 ; out of hospital 11; total 44; per cent. of total strength . . .
6.44
" invalided . . .
22; " " . . .
3.22
"sent on sick leave . . .
57 ;" ",
. . .
8.34
" of days spent in hospital
29,659.9; per admission 21.09; per man of total strength . . . 43.42
" "
on sick leave 8,436; per man . . . 1 4 8 ;
" "
. . . 12.35
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . .
55.77
As compared with previous years—
Years.
STATIONS.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Deaths.
Daily Sick.
1868 . . .
Mooltan, May 1866 . . .
89.1
.5
2 7
1869 . . .
Cawupore, January 1869 . . .
111.7
2.4
3.7
1870 . . .
Ditto
ditto
...
201.1
.5
4.7
1871 . . .
Ditto
ditto
...
177.9
.9
4.2
1872 . . .
Barrackpore and Alipore, April 1872 . . .
275.4
2.1
7.9
1873 . . .
Barrackpore . . .
175.9
2.4
5.6
1874 . . .
Ditto
. . .
172.2
2.2
6.4
1875 . . .
Ditto
.
.
.
230.9
5.4
13.3