GWALIOR DISTIRICT.
37
17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regiment of Native Infantry—Morar.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
. Delhi, Nov. 1867, from
Barrackpore.
157.6
2.5
4.9
1872
. Meean Meer, Feb. 1872,
218.9
3.2
4.5
1873
.
Ditto
ditto
.
176.3
2.8
4.2
1874
. Morar, Dec. 1874
.
103.4
2.4
2.1
1875
. D i t t o . . .
94.37
3.04
3.11
Average .
.
.
150.11
2.78
3.76
1876
. Morar
.
.
.
90.58
.86
2.55
Medical Officer.—Surgeon L. E. Eades has been in medical charge of
the regiment throughout the
year. This report is sub
-mitted by him.
Medical
Officer.
II. Location and movements.—
The whole regiment has been
stationed in Morar from 1st
January to 31st December 1876
inclusive.
III. Topography, &c. —Topo-
graphy and physical geography of
the surrounding country and the
station were fully described by
Surgeon Center, M. B., in pages
37 and 38 of the Medical and
Sanitary Report of the Bengal Na-
tive Army, for 1869 : see also
Surgeon E. R. Johnson's Sanitary Report on 33rd Native Infantry, pages 43 and 44, for
the same year.
IV. Lines, barracks or huts. —The only matters to record since last year's report are, first, the
knocking down and clearing away of the bund on the Morar river ; second, the better ventilation
of the sepoys' huts by apertures made in the partition walls ; and third, jhamps having been
supplied to keep out the cold in winter and the rain during the monsoon.
The sanitary circumstances of the regiment remain as previously described.
A new well has been sunk by the Department Public Works, which supplies
pure water ; but the supply for the men is still insufficient.
Location
and move-
ments.
Topography,
&c.
Lines, bar
-racks or huts.
XIV. Hospital.—There is a new hospital in course of construction, which may possibly be
ready some time during the year.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. —Strength of the regiment—
Present
.
.
. . . . . . . .
620.47
Absent
.
.
.
. . . . . . .
74.67
Total .
. 695.14
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 Morar
. 1st Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 620.47
562
4
15.89 90.57
.64 2.56
Number of deaths in hospital 4 ; out of hospital 2 ; total
6 ; per cent. of total strength
.86
„
invalided .
.
.
.
.
.
24;
„
,,
.
3.45
„
sent on sick leave
.
. . .
13;
„
.
1.87
„
of days spent in hospital 5,817 ; per admission
10.35 ; per man of total strength .
8.36
„
„
on sick leave 2,443 ; per man
187.92 ;
„ „
3.51
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . .
11.87
The year 1876 has been exceptionally healthy ; the admissions per cent. and deaths per
cent. have been the lowest in nine years, and the daily average sick per cent. has been lower than
in any year, except 1874.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness. —The principal causes of sickness are exhibited in the
following statement :
DISEASES.
Number of
admissions.
Percentage of
total admissions.
Intermittent and remittent fever
.
. .
.
.
.
350
62.27
Abscesses
27
4.80
Contusions .
.
.
.
.
.
.
22
3.91
Blisters of feet
.
17
3.02
Dysentery
.
15
2.66
Chronic rheumatism
.
.
.
14
2.49
General debility
.
1 4
2.49
Ulcers.
1 1
1.94
Congestion of spleen
9
1.60
Diarrhœa.
9
1.60
Pneumonia
. . . . . . . . . .
8
1.42
Phthisis pulmonalis.
.
. .
. . .
5
.88
Erysipelas, sloughing
.
.
.
.
.
3
.53
Enteric fever.
.
.
.
.
1
.17
Total Admissions from all Causes
.
.
5 6 2
Principal
causes of
sickness.