Drainage.
Water-supply.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics.
ALLAHABAD DIVISION.
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III. Topography and physical geography. —The paragraph has been answered by the present
writer in his annual report of the regiment for 1874, and since that date no alterations
have taken place. In the year 1875 there being an excessive rainfall; the water in the
Ganges rose considerably above its usual limits, and though the water came close to the lines,
yet no part of them was inundated.
V. Lines, barracks, or huts. —The lines, barracks, and huts are in a good state of repair, and
there is no overcrowding amongst the rank and file, but the regimental bazar and married
quarters being built on a limited piece of ground, the huts are rather too close together to
ensure sufficiently free ventilation.
Topography
and physical
geography.
Lines,
barracks or
huts.
VI. Drainage. —The natural drainage in the lines and bazar is good, as the ground slopes
on all sides towards the river and nullahs in close proximity.
VIII. Water-supply. —The drinking-water is taken from wells situated in the lines, of
which there are three principal ones ; they are pucca . The water is hard, but of good quality
and in abundance ; all clothing is generally washed in the river close by, to which the men
mostly resort for bathing purposes.
IX. Diet.—The quality of the food is good, and vegetables, meat, &c., can be had in
abundance and at very moderate prices. The bazar supplies are every day inspected by the Native
officers. No cases of under-feeding have come to my notice since I rejoined the regiment.
X. Clothing. —The regimental clothing is very good and sufficient, but some of the men,
particularly those recently enlisted, are deficient in ordinary undress clothes. When on guard,
duty or parade, the sepoys wear the ordinary ammunition boots ; but these, often badly fitting,
chafe and blister the feet.
Diet.
Clothing.
XI. Duty and employment. —The duties of the men at head-quarters are not excessive,
but the sepoys of the detachment at Chunar , owing to the constant guard duty over the State
prison and magazine there, are unable to get their meals at regular hours. A report to this
effect was made by the Medical Officer in charge of the detachment, which was forwarded to
the Officer Commanding the regiment. The number of continuous night in bed for head
-quarters has averaged 5.38 weekly, and for the detachment at Chunar, 6.35.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—
Present
.
.......... 632.11
Absent
...........
71.47
Total
.. 703.58
Duty and
employment.
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 Allahabad. 1st Jan 1876 31st Dec. 1876 612.33
228
6
4.92 37.23 0.97 0.80
Detachment at Fort Chunar 12th Oct. 1876
Ditto
89.16
47
1
3.40 238.16 5.06
3.81
TOTAL
. 632.11
275
7
5.67 43.50
1.10 0.89
Number of deaths in hospital 7 ; out of hospital none ; total
7 ; per cent. of total strength
.
0.99
„
invalided
........
18 ;
,,
„
. .
2.55
„
sent on sick leave
......
3 ;
,,
„
. .
0.42
„
of days spent in hospital 2,076 ; per admission .
7.45 ; per man of total strength
.
2 . 9 5
„
„
on sick leave 998 ; per man .
. 332.66 ;
„
„
. .
1.41
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
.
.
4.36
In 1875 there were 526 admissions into hospital, whilst, during the past year, 277 were ad
-mitted. The regiment on arrival at its present station in November 1874, was suffering from the
effects of its previous stay at Morar, where most of the men had bad malarious fever ; and from
this cause there were 243 patients admitted during 1875, and only 150 in the past year.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness. —The greatest number of admissions, as is usual, are
due to malarious fevers, of which 150 cases were treated, or 54.14 per cent. of the total sick
for the year. Dysentery caused 32, and diarrhœa and pneumonia each 9 admissions : there
were 2 cases of cholera treated, both terminating fatally.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality. —At head-quarters one man died from each , of the
following diseases,—pneumonia, remittent fever, diarrhœa and general debility, and two from
cholera. The detachment at Chunar lost one man from pneumonia, making a total of seven
deaths for the year under report.
XVIII. Fpidemics.—On the 5th of May, cholera broke out in the married quarters and
bazar of the regiment, and up to the 12th of the month one sepoy and four camp-followers
were attacked ; the former and two of the latter died. The first case of cholera, that of an old
woman, was removed to a temporary hospital about a quarter of a mile away from the lines, and
she died there: Her hut and the adjacent ones were at once vacated and fumigated. On the 7th
of May, the whole of the married sepoys, their families and the camp-followers, aggregating
568 persons, were moved into camp, under a tope of trees situated about a quarter of a mile or
more to the north-east of the lines. All the huts in the married quarters and bazar were
vacated and disinfected by fumigation, and then re-occupied on the 24th of May.
On the 27th of September, a regimental bheestie was attacked by cholera and died ; on this
date 35 persons living in, and adjacent to, the hut previously occupied by the bheestie were