Principal
causes of
sickness.
Mortality.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
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XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—
Present
370.46
Absent
89.05
Total
459.51
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. D e a t h s .
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters at Rawal
Pindi.
1st Jan. 1876 31st Dec. 1876 370.46 289
1
7 . 8 8
78.01 0.26
2 . 1 2
Number of deaths in hospital 1; out of hospital 3; total: 4; per cent. of total strength 0.87
„ invalided 7; „ „
1.52
„ sent on sick leave 4; „ „
0.87
„ of days spent in hospital 3,124; per admission 10.80; per man of total strength
6.79
„ „on sick leave 288; per man 72; „ „
0.62
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
7.41
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—Fevers head the list with 111 admissions, but they were
not of a severe type; dysentery, nine cases; pneumonia, three; bronchial catarrh, fourteen; con
-tusions and blistered feet, fifty-two. Other diseases gave very few admissions. The health of
the regiment was very favourable and Compares well with former years.
XVI. Principal causes of mortalily. —Four deaths during the year, one in hospital from
hepatitis; three on sick-leave at their homes.
X I X . V a c c i n a t i o n .
—Twenty-two men were vaccinated.
Inspection. -Inspected at Rawal Pindi by the Deputy Surgeon-Gen-
eral of the Circle on the 4th April 1877. On the date of Mr. Allen's
inspection, he reports that the lines were rather untidy, as verandahs to the huts
Were in process of construction. The ventilation of the huts was not considered
to be sufficient. The drainage of the lines was good. In the hospital it was
found that the accommodation was sufficient; the wards were sufficiently ven
- t i l a t e d , a n d w e r e e a c h p r o v i d e d w i t h f i r e - p l a c e s f o r f i r e s i n t h e c o l d w e a t h e r .
Cleanliness was well attended to, and the hospital equipment was generally com
- p l e t e a n d s e r v i c e a b l e . A c c o m m o d a t i o n f o r t h e h o s p i t a l a s s i s t a n t s w a s o f a
very inferior kind. It is also reported by Mr. Allen that within 60 yards of
the regimental hospital there is a latrine with thirty seats for the use of the
inhabitants of the sudder bazar.
1 1 t h R e g i m e n t , n a t i v e I n f a n t r y —R a w a l P i n d i .
I . M e d i c a l O f f i c e r s .
— S u r g e o n - M a j o r J . D u n c a n , b y w h o m t h i s r e p o r t
has been submitted, held
medical charge of head
-quarters during the whole
year; 3rd class Hospital As
-sistant Zahooroodeen of a
detachment marching from
Bareilly to Umballa from the
1st January to the 1st Feb
-ruary; Surgeon-Major A.
Taylor, Civil Surgeon of
Murree, of a detachment
from the 10th April to the
12th November; and Sur
-geon-Major A. Thomson,
Garrison Surgeon of Attock,
of a detachment from the 29th October to the 31st December.
II. Location and movements. —The head-quarters of the regiment was at the camp of
exercise at Delhi from the 1st to the 20th January; marching for Rawal Pindi from the 21st
January to the 12th March, and in quarters at Rawal Pindi during the remainder of the
year. A detachment of 187 men at Bareilly on the 1st January marched thence on the 3rd,
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1871
Dum-Dum, November
1868, from Dinapore.
157.7
2.7
4.94
1872
Bareilly, Feby. 1872
97.1
5.69
4.28
1873
Ditto ditto
51.
.57
1.66
1874
Ditto ditto
42.6
.28
1.50
1875
Ditto ditto
54.96
1.29
1.90
Average
80.67
2.10.
2.85
1876
Rawal Pindi, Mar. 1876
101.37
.94
2.86
Location and
movements.
Medical
Officers.
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