Principal
causes of sick-
ness.
Mortality.
Epidemics.
PESHAWAR DISTRICT.
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about 100 yards; its long axis is from north to south. It, including the out-offices, is open
on all sides. The latrine, in which the dry-earth system is enforced, is situated to the south
of it, and the excreta are carried away in a conservancy cart twice daily. The hospital is a
pucka building, made of stone and brick, and the roof is tiled. Its extreme length outside 175
feet, breadth 43 feet 6 inches; at each corner is a small ward. 12 feet x 12 feet, used respectively
as (1), an office; (2), the dispensary; (3), the ablution-room; (4), a store-room. There are two
verandahs, one on the east side and one on the west, 8 feet wide, which run nearly the whole length
of the building, being bounded at either end by the small wards just mentioned. The wards for the
reception of the patients are two in number, slightly unequal in size, one being 78 feet x 20 feet,
the other 72 feet X 20 feet, the larger being intended to accommodate 26 patients, the smaller 24
patients (total 50 patients). They communicate by an arched doorway about 10 feet high. There
is a separate building, in which are two distinct wards, also to the south of the hospital (the
latrine being between them), which is intended for the reception of such cases as it might be
advisable to treat apart from the other patients; and a dead-house is in course of construction.
The quarters for the hospital assistants and medical pupils and for the hospital establishment
are on the west side of the hospital, about 20 yards distant, and the cook-houses are facing the
north end. The capacity of the larger ward is 26,910 cubic feet, and that of the smaller is
24,840 cubic feet, total 51,750 cubic feet, which would give to each man, supposing the entire
hospital to be occupied, 924 cubic feet. The ventilation could hardly be improved upon, there
being in the length of the two wards 12 doors and 14 windows, besides a door at each end.
The 12 doors and 14 windows can be closed or opened at will, and when all are closed there
is abundance of light, for all the windows are glazed. The building is in very good repair,
but it is not able to keep out heavy and continued rain. It has been a little shaken by the
recent earthquakes; but I do not think that it leaks more in consequence. I think the warming
arrangements are not good, consisting merely of a small iron stove in each ward, which throws
out but little heat and is not of much use; but I believe that fire-places will soon be substituted
for the stoves. The sepoys bring their own bedding with them, and are always well supplied;
but there is some difficulty about the recruits, for in truth they have very little clothing, as a
rule, when they join the regiment. There has been, I am very glad to say, no overcrowding
in the hospital during the year. The maximum number of patients who were under treatment
on any one day was 36, and no case required to be segregated during the year under consider
-ation.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—
Present
5 9 3 · 1
Absent
1 0 6 · 8
T o t a l
6 9 9 · 9 3
Sickness, mor
-tality and in
-validing.
S T A T I O N .
P E R I O D .
S t r e n g t h .
T O T A L N U M B E R O F
D a i l y a v e r - a g e n u m - b e r o f s i c k .
P E R C E NT . OF S T R E NGT H P E R ANNUM.
F r o m
T o
A d m i s - s i o n s .
D e a t h s .
A d m i s - s i o n s .
D e a t h s .
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k
Head- quar t er s at Peshawar and Nowsher a.
1 s t J a n .
3 1 s t D e c .
4 4 6 · 9 2
5 0 3
8
1 5 · 5 1
1 1 2 · 5 4
1 · 7 9
3 · 4 7
Detachment at Abazai
D i t t o
D i t t o
8 6
1 3 2
. . .
1 · 9 0
1 5 3 · 4 8
. . .
2 · 2 0
Ditto at Mackeson
D i t t o
D i t t o
3 2
8 4
. . .
1 · 6 4
2 6 2 · 5 0
. . .
5 · 1 2
Ditto at Cherat
2 9 t h M a y
2 n d J u l y
1 1 7
1 1
. . .
2 · 5 1
9 8 ·
. . .
2 · 1 4
Ditto at Cherat
2 9 t h O c t .
1 7 t h D e c .
1 1 6
1 6
. . .
2 · 0 1
1 0 0 · 7 0
. . .
1 · 7 3
Depôt at Nowshera
1 s t J a n .
1 7 t h F e b .
1 0 0
1 3
1
1 2 · 4 4
9 8 · 8
7 · 6 0
1 2 · 4 4
T O T A L
. . .
. . .
5 9 3 · 1
7 5 9
9
2 0 · 9 8
1 2 7 · 9 7
1 · 5 2
3 · 5 4
Number of deaths in hospital 9; out of hospital 4; total 13; per cent. of total strength
1 · 8 5
" invalided... ... ... 23; " " ...
3 · 2 8
" sent on sick leave ... ... ... 3; " "
· 4 1
" of days spent in hospital 7,058; per admission 9·3; per man of total strength
1 0 · 0 8
" " on sick leave 480; per man ... 160; " " ...
· 6 8
T o t a l t e m p o r a r y l o s s o f s e r v i c e p e r m a n o f t o t a l s t r e n g t h
1 0 · 7 6
XVI. Principal causes of sickness. —The principal causes of sickness were, as usual in this
country, fever, which accounts for 461 admissions; next in order of frequency came boils 41,
dysentery 28, diarrhœa 17, bronchitis 16, colic 16, and contusion 16. There is nothing in the
prevalence of these diseases to call for special remark.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality. —Of the 8 men who died in hospital, 3 died from
fever, 1 from syphilis, 1 from bronchitis, 2 from bowel-complaints, and 1 from general debility
. XVIII. Epidemics.—There was no epidemics during the year.
XIX. Vaccination.—There was no vaccination in the regiment, but towards the close of
the year, I vaccinated a few children in the regimental bazaar with lymph obtained from the
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Vaccination.