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Duties and
employment.
Marches and
service.
XI. Duties and employment.—The duties performed at the Camp of Exercise were some-
times heavy, consisting frequently of long marches and protracted field operations. Night duties
were light. and the regiment did not suffer. Number of nights in bed, 6.66.
XIII. Marches and service .—The regiment marched on 20th November for Camp of
Exercise, and remained at the latter till the close of the year. The march from Umballa was a
short one, occupying about 12 days, and no incident worthy of record occurred. The season was
mild; the usual winter rains of the Punjab did not occur.
XIV. Hospital .—The regimental hospital at Umballa was fully described in 1873. At
the camp, two hospital pals were found sufficient for the accommodation of the prevailing
number of sick.
Hospital.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—
Present . . .
383.16
Absent . . .
74.43
Total . . .
457.59
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
a v e r a g e n u m b e r o f
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
A d m i s - sions. D e a t h s .
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters, Umballa, and
Camp of Exercise at Delhi 1st Jan. 1875 31st Dec. 1875
316.5 314
. . .
10.5 99.21
. . .
3.32
Detachment, Jullundur . . .
Ditto
10th Nov. 1875
65
18
. . .
1.4 32.20
. . . 2.15
Ditto, Cawnpore . . . 14th Dec. 1875 31st Dec. 1875.
59
1
. . .
. . .34.47
. . .
. . .
TOTAL . . .
383
333
. . .
11.8
86.94
. . .
3.08
Number of deaths in hospital 0; out of hospital 1; total 1; per cent. of total strength . . . .22
" invalided . . . 7; " " . . .
1.53
" sent on sick leave . . . 12; " " . . .
2.62
" of days spent in hospital 4,339; per admission 13 .03; per man of total strength . . .
9.47
" on sick leave 2,464; per man . . . 205.33; " " . . .
5.38
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 14.85
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—Comparative table of sickness, mortality and invalid
-ing for the past eight years:—
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Years.
Station.
Total
number
a d m i s -
sions.
R e m i t
-
tent
fever.
R h e n - m a t i s m .
D y s e n - t e r y .
D i a r r - h œ a .
P n e n - m o n i a .
B r o n - c h i t i s .
P l e u - r i s y .
Deaths i n h o s - p i t a l . Invalid - e d .
1868 . . . Mooltan . . . 384
128
16
37
7
1
6
. . .
. . .
8
1869 . . . Mooltan to Peshawar . . . 592
410
5
13
5
2
3
4
2
1
1870 . . . Peshawar . . . 809
551
5
30
31
4
5
3
4
6
1871 . . . Ditto . . . 439
200
16
28
19
6
15
4
5
16
1872 . . . Ditto . . . 598
340
22
27
33
7
5
1
9
15
1873 . . . Camp of Exercise to Uaballa
233
75
16
9
15
4
6
3
4
5
1874 . . . Umballa . . . 295
126
22
6
9
3
19
1
1
2
1875 . . . Umballa to Camp of Exercise 333
113
28
15
12
3
5
1
. . .
7
The regiment has been very healthy during the year. There has been a slight increase
in admissions from rheumatism, dysentery and diarrhœa above the returns of last year, but the
cases have been of a mild type. In short, the health of the regiment has been so favorable
as to afford no occasion for special comment.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality .—The mortuary register of the hospital was blank.
There has only been one casualty in the regiment during the year, one man having died at his
home on sick leave. This healthy condition is mainly attributable to the recovery of the men
from the effects of Peshawar climate due to beneficial change of locality, and the attentive care
of 2nd class hospital assistant Azeezoodeen.
XVIII. Epidemics .—Several cases of cholera occurred in the station of Umballa . amongst
European troops and native residents of some of the bazaars, but the regiment escaped the
disease.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics.
XIX. Vaccination .—None, for reasons given in former reports, viz., the practice of in
-oculation amongst the men before enlistment. Small-pox has not occurred amongst the men of
the regiment since 1868.
Deputy Surgeon-General J. N. Tresidder made his medical and sanitary
inspection of this regiment at Umballa on the 23rd October 1875. He
reports that on the day of his inspection he found the huts in good order, clean
Vaccination.
Inspection.
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