Medical
Officers.
Location
and move
- m e n t s .
Present
685.4
Absent
3 9 . 7
Total
725.1
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
from 3rd November to 31st December. The daily average sick rate of the detachment was
slightly in excess of that at head-quarters. There was no mortality.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. —Strength of the regiment—
184
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
4th Regiment Punjab Infantry—Kohat.
I. Medical Officers. —Surgeon-Major J. W. Johnston reports that he was
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
Kohat, February 1869
234.9
3.7
4.5
1872
Abbottabad, November
1871.
127.5
2.1
3.2
1873
Ditto ditto
110.5
.8
2.1
1874
Kohat, December 1874.
131.9
1.3
2.5
1875
Ditto ditto
254.67
.93
4.51
Average
171.89
1.76
3.36
1876
Kohat
243.36
1.24
4.84
in medical charge of the
regiment from 1st January
to 12th February, and from
29th November to 31st
December; Surgeon T.
Moloney from 13th February
to 13th April, and from 1st
June to 28th November;
Surgeon C. McCartie from
14th April to 30th May.
II. Location and movements.—
The head-quarters remained at
Kohat. A detachment with an
average strength of 59.8 was
detailed to Bahadur Khel outpost
from 1st January to 7th January,
from 3rd May to 9th July, and
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
O F
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis- sions. Deaths.
Admis- sions. Deaths. Dail
y a v e r a g e
sick.
Head-quarters at Kohat
1st Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 662.9 1,611
7 32.13 243.02 1.05 4. 84
Detachment at Bahadur Khel
Ditto
7th Jan. „
59.8
57
2.93 259.09
4.89
Ditto ditto
3rd May 1876 9th July „
Ditto ditto
3rd Nov. „ 31st Dec. „
TOTAL
685.4 1,668
7 33.21 243.36 1.02 4.84
Number of deaths in hospital 7; out of hospital 2; total
9; per cent. of total strength
1.24
„
invalided
31; „ „
4 . 2 7
„
sent on sick leave
21; „ „
2 . 8 9
„
of days spent in hospital 12,155; per admission
7.28; per man of total strength
16.76
„
on sick leave 1,295 ; per man
61.6; „
„
1.78
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
18. 54
Compared with 1875, the annual average present strength was 62.3; the admissions, 81;
the daily average sick, 5.07; the number absent on sick leave, 16; the invalid rôle, 6; and the
number of days passed in hospital per man of total strength, .81 in excess. The mortality,
however, was two, and the number of days per man of total strength spent on sick leave 59.8
less.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness. —The chief diseases were—
1875.
1876.
Malarial
1,207 1,121
Lung disease
48
43
Intestinal „
82
192
Dietetic „
65
87
Syphilitic „
36
10
Mumps was rather prevalent in early summer, while dysentery more especially shewed dur
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November.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality. —Nine deaths were recorded, 7 in and 2 out of
hospital. Of the former, 4 died from pneumonia, while intestinal obstruction, remittent fever
and dysentery, each had a victim. The deaths out of hospital were due to a sepoy dying of