Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality, and
Invaliding.
Deaths.
Inspection.
Medical
charge.
Location &
movements.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
well provided with all the various articles of food requiried by the sepoy, and
the medical officer states that the men appear to have been well fed. The
duty, owing to the number of guards furnished by the regiment, is stated to
have been heavy; the men had but 3.5 nights in bed on an average during
the year.
Hospital.—At Alipore, 1½ miles from the lines, in good repair; the ventilation is good if
the hospital is not over-crowded, but it is far too small, only admitting 71 patients at the most
extreme computation.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment
Present
.
.
. 606.87
Absent
. . .
80.57
Total
. . . 687.44
Sickness.
Hospital.
Medicines.
STATION.
PERIOD
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
Admis-
sious.
Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
From
To
Head Quarters at Fort Wil -
liam. . . January 1875. January 1876.
606.87
637
13
34.57 104.96 2.14
5.69
Number of deaths in hospital 9; out of hospital 4; total 13; per cent. of total strength . . . 1.87
"
invalided . . . 34; " " . . . 4.94
"
s e n t o n s i c k l e a v e . . . 1 3 ; " " . . . 1.87
"
of days spent in hospital 12,618; per admission 19.81; per man of total strength . . . 18.35
"
on sick leave 2,160; per man . . . 166; " " . . . 3.14
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 21.49
XVI. Sickness.—From a table compiled by the medical officer and which
it is unnecessary to reproduce, it appears that the principal sickness during the
year was caused by intermittent fevers, bowel complaints, chest diseases,
gonorrhœa, and primary syphilis—blistered feet gave but 15 admissions into hos-
pital. Of the total deaths in hospital, there was but one from fever (complicated
with pneumonia) and one from dysentery.
The Deputy surgeon general of the Presidency Circle inspected the regi
-
ment on the 12th January 1876, and the following information has been ex
-
tracted from his Inspection Report:—
The regiment was in Fort William and occupied the right and left rampart
barracks at St. George's gate, and the ground floor of the north and south
European barracks; the ventilation of the bomb-proof barracks at St. George's
gate is described as being deficient. Water-supply is of excellent quality, being
from the municipal pipes, and abundant; the drainage of the Fort is described
as being excellent. The hospital of the regiment is at Alipore, about 1½ miles
distant from the Fort, and in it there is good accommodation for 35 men; but
should the sick be in excess of this number, there are two wards available in
the hospital of the regiment stationed at Alipore. There was an ample stock
of medicines in store, and the instruments, as a rule, were in good order.
28th (Punjab) Regiment A atibe Infantry—Alipore.
YEAR.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1870 . . .
Ferozepore Feby. 1870
122.9
2.3
3
1871 . . .
Ditto ditto
. . .
72.03
.85
2.09
1872. . .
Alipore Dec, 1872. . .
79.2
.71
2.41
1873. . .
Ditto ditto. . .
193.2 1.02
4.64
1874 . . .
Ditto ditto
. . .
170.8
1.73
5.96
. . .
A v e r a g e . . .
127.62
1.32
3.62
1875 . . .
Alipore
. . .
146.73
3.20
5.35
Surgeon W. R. Murphy held the medical charge of the regiment from
the 13th October till the
end of the year:
—
I. Medical officers in charge
during the year—
Surgeon G. Price from 1st January
to 23rd July 1875; Surgeeon
- Major R. T. Lyons from 23rd
July to 14th September 1875;
Surgeon H. A. C. Gray from
14th September to 13th October
1875.
II. Location and movements—
The regiment was stationed at
Alipore up to the 4th November
1875. On that day it started for
the camp of exercise at Delhi.
It was conveyed by rail to Cawnpore, where it arrived on November 7th, and on the morning