147
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
LAHORE DIVISTON.
XVIII. Epidemics.—No epidemic in the regiment.
XIX. Vaccination.—No vaccination has been performed during the year.
XX. Recommendations.— Pneumonia, when occurring in natives, appears to be somewhat
different in type from the pneumonia cases I have been accustomed to see in England. Within
the last eight months I have had opportunities of seeing several cases of this most fatal form
of lung disease. The following notes that I have made on the subject may, therefore, be of
some trifling interest. The premonitory indications of lung mischief are apparently disregarded by
natives, and a man does not apply for relief until the disease is far advanced, hence, when he is
admitted into hospital, treatment is of little avail, and the disorder terminates fatally in a few
days. As an indication of the commencement of grave lung disease, I have noticed the alternate
contraction and dilatation of the alœ nosi muscles to be a most valuable sign; and hours before
an auscultatory examination will give any information, the working of these small muscles will
point out that danger is to be apprehended. I have not often seen the "rust-coloured sputa"
in the pneumonia of natives; the expectoration has been frothy and mixed with florid blood;
occasionally the expectoration has ,been scanty and apparently free from blood, and at other times
even absent. I believe that most of the fatal cases of pneumonia are complicated with bronchitis,
the bronchial inflammation being secondary to the pneumonia consolidation, but I have no oppor
-tunity of verifying this assertion by post-mortem examinations.
Recommend
-ations.
Pneumonia.
Recruiting.
Recruiting—Thirty-one men were enlisted during the year—
AVERAGE OF
Chest. Height.
Age.
Inches.
Feet.
Year.
6 Rajpoots
. . .
34.3
5.6
20.5
11 Pathans
. . .
33.8
5.6
20.9
14 Mussulmans
. . .
33.5
5.4
20.7
Inspection.
Inspected on the 10th February 1876 by Dr. G. H. Ray, who
reports that the latrines were little used owing to the men preferring to resort
to the jungle for necessary purposes. Fire-places had been constructed in the
hospital since the previous inspection, and Dr. Ray states that the medical
officer complained that his indents for fire-wood had been invariably reduced
in the Commissariat Office. Accommodation for the hospital subordinates estab
-lishment was still required. The hospital equipment was complete and in
accordance with regulations; the bath-room was not used by the patients in
hospital. The supply of medicines was ample, and the instruments were kept in
a satisfactory state of efficiency.
31st (Punjab) Regiment, Aatibe Infantry,—Mooltan.
I. Medical Officer.—Surgeon-Major T. G. Skardon, by whom the Annual
Sanitary Report has been
submitted, was in medical
charge during the whole
year, except when on pri
-vilege leave—April to June.
I I . L o c a t i o n a n d m o v e n t e n t s . —
The regiment continued to occupy
the same quarters described in
former reports until 20th October,
when it commenced its march to
- w a r d s t h e C a m p o f E x e r c i s e , D e l h i ,
and to Cawnpore, the station to
which it was ordered in relief
on 6th December. The entire re
-giment arrived at the Cabul Gate
camping ground, Delhi, and on the following morning the depôt, 135 strong, with the entire
sick of the regiment (18), commenced its march towards Cawnpore. The head-quarters of
the regiment, 553 strong, proceeded afterwards, on same morning, and took up its position in 1st
Brigade, 4th Division of Camp of Exercise, in the vicinity of Sufdar Jung's tomb near Delhi.
Here the head-quarters remained under canvas and encamped in a ploughed field (with young
crops just above ground, but not irrigated) until the end of the year.
III. Topography, &c—Mr. Skardon gives a very full description of the
march of the regiment from Mooltan to the Camp of Exercise at Delhi. The
regiment marched from Mooltan on the 20th October, and on the 7th December
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . . Nowshera . . .
237.
2.3
5.8
1 8 7 1 . . .
Mooltan, October 1871 . . .
118.5
1.4
3.6
1 8 7 2 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
223.2
. 4
7.4
1873 . . .
Ditto ditto
152.2
1.7
4.7
1874
...
Ditto
ditto . . .
198.4
. 8 6
5.1
Average . . .
185.86
1.32
5.32
1875 . . . Mooltan . . .
139.78
1.41
3.45
Medical
Officer.
Location and
movements.
Topography,
&c.