Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
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MEERUT DIVISION.
S T A T I O N .
P E R I O D .
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER OF
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
A d m i s - s i o n s . Deaths.
A d m i s - s i o n s .
Deaths.
Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters at Agra and B a x a . . .
1st Jan. 1875 31st Dec. 1875 5 0 9 . 6 1
663
10
25.59 130.10 1.96
5 . 0 2
Detachment at Fatehgarh . . .
" "
5th Apl. 1875 160.50
44
. . .
7.41 105.31 . . .
4.61
Ditto Ulwar . . . 2nd Mar.1875 22nd Oct. 1875 56.00
13
. . .
.66 36.04 . . .
1.17
Escort with Lieutenant -
Governor, North-Western
Provinces
. . . 1st Jan. 1875 9th Mar. 1875 163.25
56
. . .
6.82 184.11 . . .
4.17
TOTAL . . .
. . .
. . .
621.8
776
10
28.6 124.79 1.61 4.59
Number of deaths in hospital, 10; out of hospital, 4; total, 14; per cent. of total strength . . . 1.98
" i n v a l i d e d . . . 2 5 ; " " . . .
3.54
" sent on sick leave . . . 13; " " . . .
1.84
" of days spent in hospital, 10,306; per admission, 13.28; per man of total strength . . . 14.60
" " on sick leave, 1,394; per man, 107.23;
" " . . .
1.97
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 16.57
XVI. Principal causes of sickness .—Malarious fevers, bowel complaints,
and measles were the principal causes of sickness, and the two former diseases
supplied a large number of admissions on the line of march.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality .—Lung diseases, pneumonia, bron
-chitis and acute miliary tuberculosis were the principal causes of death.
Enteric fever caused one death, as did also a perforating ulcer of the
duodenum.
XVIII. Epidemics .—The epidemic of measles gave 16 admissions, one of which proved
fatal. It began at Agra in the end of March and lasted until the middle of May. I am unable
to say anything more about the epidemic, as I was not in charge of the regiment when it
occurred.
Remarks by Major W. Winson, commanding the regiment.—After perusal of this report, I
called for a return of the proportion of boots and Hindustani shoes worn by the men on the
march, and found of the effective total two hundred and twenty-five men marched in the
former and four hundred and thirty-four in the latter. In one company alone fifty-two
used boots and thirty-three Hindustani shoes. The question suggested is, were the boots
properly fitted, would a large percentage of blistered feet occur?
Epidemics.
Remarks by
the Com
-manding
Officer.
2. The men referred to as being employed marching and working with the carts at night,
seem on inquiry to be principally married men, and occasionally a squad of recruits was sent on
with the mens' cooking utensils and kits not in use.
36th (The Bareilly)
Regiment Aatibe Infantry—Agra.
I . M e d i c a l O f f i c e r s
. — S u r g e o n A . B . S t r a h a n , w h o h a s b e e n i n c h a r g e o f t h e
regiment throughout the
year, submitted the annual
report.
II. Location and movements.
— ( a . )
H e a d - q u a r t e r s a t A g r a , f r o m
1st January to 31st December
1875.
(b .) Detachment at Fatehgarh,
from 19th March to 31st De
-cember 1875.
(c.) Detachment at Ulwar,
from 1st January to 18th March
1875, and from 9th October to
31st December 1875.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1 8 7 0 . . .
Peshawar, Nov. 1869 . . .
284.2
2.6
7.1
1871 . . .
Ditto, ditto . . .
142.4
1.5
4.2
1872 . . .
Ditto, ditto . . .
177.1
3.3
4.1
1 8 7 3 . . .
Agra, March 1873 . . .
92.7
2.7
5.4
1874 . . . Ditto, ditto . . .
112
2.6
6
Average . . .
161.52
2.54
5.36
1875
. . . Agra . . .
48.40
1.30
3.38
Medical
Officers.
Location and
movements.