1 2 5
ROHILCUND DISTRICT.
of temperature varied from 18° to 29° Fah: After arrival at the camp up to the 31st Decem
-ber, 19 cases were admitted into hospital, of which 4 were diseases of the lungs and air
passages, ascribable to cold, 10 dysentery, apparently due in nearly every instance to eating
grain, and 1 of mumps, contracted from the 33rd Regiment Native Infantry, encamped close by.
The remaining four cases were not in any way attributable to camp influences. One case of
pneumonia proved fatal in the regimental hospital tent; the man having become too ill to be
moved after the general hospital was ready for the reception of patients. For slight
ailments, such as blisters of the feet, the men were not admitted into hospital, but were
employed on light duties in the camp, while under treatment. Eleven cases were transferred to
the general hospital; and 7 of them were still under treatment at the end of the year.
XIV. Hospital.—No alterations have been made in the hospital buildings. The sirkee
lining applied to the roof in the end of 1874 has effected a considerable reduction in the
temperature of the hospital, during the hottest part of the day; the highest recorded at 2 P.
M. last year having been 103° against 109° Fah: in 1874. The improvements still required are two
partition walls, glass Windows, and a dead-house.
Pneumonia.
Hospital.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—
Present . . .
620.39
Absent . . .
77.9
Total . . .
698.29
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 Bareilly . . .
1st Jan. . . . 16th Nov. . . .
608.89
318
3
12.12 59.57
. 5 6
1.99
Ditto marching . . . 17th Nov. . . . 30th Nov. . . .
513.
4
. . . 1.5 20.33
. . .
.29
Ditto Camp, Delhi
1st Dec. . . . 31st Dec. . . .
515.14
19
1
6.54 43.42
2.28
1.26
Detachment at Bareilly . . . 17th Nov. . . . 31st Dec. . . .
179.42
. . .
. . .
2.22
. . .
. . .
1.23
TOTAL . . .
. . .
. . .
620.39
341
4
11.81 54.96
.64 1.9
Number of deaths in hospital 4; out of hospital 5; total 9; per cent. of total strength . . . 1.28
" i n v a l i d e d . . . 5 1 ; " " . . . 7.30
" sent on sick leave . . . 7; " " . . .
1.0
" of days spent in hospital 4, 311; per admission 12.64; Per man of total strength . . . 6.17
" " on sick leave 632; per man 90.28; " " . . . 0.9
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 7.07
The year compares unfavorably, as regards both sickness and mortality, with 1874, and
to a slight degree also with 1873. Compared with 1874, there is an increase of 95 admission
s i n t o h o s p i t a l , a n d o f 2 d e a t h s i n , a n d 5 o u t o f , h o s p i t a l . T h e d i f f e r e n c e i s d u e t o t h e g r e a t e r
prevalence of intermittent and remittent fever, phthisis, and other diseases of the lungs, bowel
complaints, and syphilis. In the classes of "integumentary diseases" and "injuries," there
has been a slight decrease. The reasons for invaliding in 18 cases were defects of vision, to
which attention was specially directed last year, and in 4, mental incapacity. Of the men on
sick leave, 5 were suffering from pulmonary phthisis, and might as well have been brought
before special invaliding committees, and discharged from the service. The temporary loss of
service from sickness would have been greatly diminished by this course, and the deaths out
of hospital reduced to 1. They were sent on sick leave at their own earnest requests. The
amount of pay to which they have become entitled while on leave has in no case exceeded the
gratuities which they would have received if discharged from the service.
XVI.
Principal causes of sickness.— The most frequent form of sickness has been malarious
fever. Of the 341 admissions into hospital, 82 have been for intermittent, and 11 for remit
-tent fever. The climate of Bareilly, however, is not accountable for the whole of this sickness,
a tendency to attacks of fever having, in a number of the patients, been contracted in more
malarious localities. The occasion of the attack in 11 of the cases was a slight catarrh; and
ascarides lumbricoides, in the 21 cases in which they were found, by impairing the general
health, and consequently the power of resisting the malarious influence, must also be regarded
as a subsidiary cause. In 38 cases there was enlargement of the spleen, and in 8 enlargement
of the liver also.
The most prevalent disease, next to intermittent fever, has been dysentery, for which
there have been 40 admissions. Imperfectly cooked food was the proximate cause in a con
-siderable number of cases, and lumbrici were expelled in 7. Phthisis and other lung diseases
have swelled the daily average sick out of proportion to the number of cases. The
admissions have been 4 of phthisis, 11 of acute and chronic bronchitis, 4 of acute and chronic
pleurisy, 2 of pneumonia, and 1 of asthma. As one element in the causation of the cases
of phthisis, and probably also of some of the others in this list, the insufficiency of accom
-modation in the barracks may be adduced.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Dysentery.
Lung diseases.
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