Drainage.
Conservancy.
Duty.
Amusements &c.
Marches.
Hospital.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
VI. Drainage.—The defective surface drainage has been somewhat improved during the
year, especially in the neighbourhood of the regimental bazaar.
VII. Conservancy.—A rough latrine has been built to the north of the lines and is used
by most of the men. The stable litter is removed daily from the lines.
Water-supply
Diet.
VIII. Water-supply.—A well has been sunk at the north-east corner of the lines, At
first the water was saturated with lime, which was in a great measure owing to the cement
used in the construction of the well, but the water is still hard and appears naturally to
contain a considerable quantity of lime. The water is 130 feet from the surface and is not
likely to be much used, except in the hot weather, when the irrigation water which is brought
from the Koorum is muddy. The horses are watered in the lines by bhistees.
IX. Diet.—Grain and most articles of food are very cheap in this station, and the men
generally appear well nourished. The regimental bazaar is good and always well supplied.
XI. Duty. —The duty during the year has not been very heavy. Nights in bed 5.09.
XII. Amusements and occupation.— There is very little in the way of amusement or
occupation beside the ordinary regimental duties.
XIII. Marches.—The regiment marched from Dera Ismail Khan on the 20th January
and arrived at Edwardesabad on the 27th. The nights at this time were very cold, but there
was very little sickness among the men.
XIV.
Hospital.—The hospital has been described in previous reports. The accommo--
dation has been quite sufficient during the year, except for a short time in November.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment
—
Present
385.95
A b s e n t
104.53
Total
490.48
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL
NUMBER OF
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF
STRENGTH PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis- s i o n s . Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Head-quarters, Dera Ismail
Khan
1st Jan,
20th Jan.
243.5
11
1
12.66 82.45 7.49 5.19
Head-quarters on line of march
21st
" 26th "
319.9
20 ...
19.28 380.21 ...
6.02
Head-quarters, Edwardesa-
bad
27th
" 31st Dec.
342.36 770
4
23.08 242.16 1.25 6.74
Detachment, Zam
1st
" 22nd Jan.
30
. . .
. . .
. . . . . .
. . .
. . .
" Jatta
1st
" 22nd "
77.82
4 ...
1.42 85.2 ...
1.82
Jani Khel
20th Feb.
31st Dec.
40
35 ...
.86 101.71 ...
2.15
Bahadur Khel
7th Sept.
31st "
22
15
. . .
.98 214.52 ...
4.45
TOTAL
. . .
...
385.95 855
5
23.83 221.53 1.29 6.17
Number of deaths in hospital 5; out of hospital 4; total 9; per cent. of total strength
1.83
" invalided
13; " " 2.65
" sent on sick leave 1
;""
.20
"
of days spent in hospital 8,697; per admission 10.17; per man of total strength
17.73
" "on sick leave 338; per man
338;
" " .68
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
18.41
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—The admissions have been somewhat in excess of
those for 1874 owing to the greater prevalence of periodic fevers, but the daily average sick
has been less than that of last year. Periodic fevers furnished more than half the total
admissions. The type was generally quotidian, but towards the close of the year, a good many
cases of quartan ague occurred with hypertrophy of spleen. Dysentery and diarrhœa furnished
about 5 per cent. of the admissions. Skin diseases and injuries each about 11 per cent.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— There were five fatal cases during the year at the
head-quarters' hospital. Three of these cases were transferred from detachments to head-
q u a r t e r s .
Dy sentery
1
Pneumonia
1
Hemiplegia
1
Remittent fever
1
Anæmia
1
XVIII. Epidemics.—None
in the regiment. In February and March typhus fever
prevailed in the jail close to the cavalry lines, but no cases occurred in the regiment. Measles
and erysipelas also prevailed amongst the civil population in March and April.
XIX. Vaccination.—All the children living in the lines, not protected by vaccination or
previous attack of small-pox, have been vaccinated during the year.