Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Medical
officer.
Location and
movements.
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ALLAHABAD DIVISION.
XVI.— Principal causes of sicknsess.—The principal causes of sickness are shown in the
following statement :—
Principal
causes of
sickness.
STATION.
Strength
a v e r a g e .
Fevers.
Dysentery.
Rheuma-
t i s m . Scurvy.
Boils.
Blisters of
feet.
O p h t h a l - m i a .
Diarrhœa. Cholera.
O t h e r d i s e a s e s .
Al l a h a b a d . . .
247.66
47.64
15
24
. . .
14.13
10.49
2.41
.4
. . .
32.30
Barrackpore . . .
124 .1
87.02
21
9
6.4
4.83
1.61
4.02
.8
.8
28.20
Besides those admitted for scurvy, several with spongy gums and slighter symptoms
were treated in the lines. Lime juice was given to the scurvy patients; the men attribute
the scurvy and the dysentery to the same cause, viz., dearness of provisions and therefore
scanty diet.
Scurvy.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality. —One man (a Sikh) died of malignant cholera at
Barrackpore on the 23rd April; one man (a Brahmin) died of concussion of the brain, after a
fall from a horse at head-quarters, in February.
Causes of
mortality.
XVIII .— Epidemics .—There was no epidemic.
XIX.— Vaccination .—No vaccination was performed in 1874.
Recruiting .—Eighty-one recruits were entertained during the year. The following is an Recruits.
analysis of them :—
NUMBER.
CASTE.
AVERAGE.
Age.
Height.
Chest.
36 . . . Pathans . . .
19.80
Feet.
5
inches.
7.13
Inches.
32.40
22 . . . Punjabee Mussalmans . . .
20.54
5
5.4
33.22
10 . . . Yat-Sikhs . . .
23.3
5
8.3
33.77
4
.
.
. Sheikhs . . .
21
5
5.75
32.68
3
.
.
. Tewanahs . . .
19
5
6.83
32.83
2
.
.
.
S y u d s . . .
20.5
5
5
31.37
2
.
.
. Jats . . .
18.5
5
6
34.25
2
.
.
. Others . . .
21.5
5
7.75
34.75
Deputy Surgeon-General J. P. Walker inspected the regiment on the 3rd
March 1875. The lines were in a satisfactory condition, but there would be
overcrowding in the huts whenever all the men were present, as they would
have only between 300 and 500 c. feet of breathing space. The latrines were
well kept, and the bazar was in a satisfactory state. The physical appear
-ance of the men is good, and the recruits have been well selected. The
hospital and the care and medical treatment of the patients were well
attended to.
Inspection.
33rd (The Allahabad) Regiment, Aatibe Infantry—Allahabad.
Surgeon E.R.Johnson as continued in medical charge of the regiment
throughout the year. He reports as follows :—
Year.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Deaths. Daily sick.
1869 . . . Morar, March 1867,
from Lucknow . . .
274.5
3.2
6.5
1870 . . . Ditto ditto . . .
330.2
2.1
7.7
1871 . . . Allahabad, Nov. 1870
120.
1.9
4.6
1872 . . . Ditto ditto . . .
162.3
1.5
4.
1873 . . . Ditto ditto . . .
119.3
1. 7
5.6
Average . . .
. . .
201.2
2.1
5 . 7
1874 . . . Allahabad . . . 103.1
0.5
3.5
II. Location and movements. —The regiment was stationed in the native infantry lines
situated in the new cantonment
of Allahabad up to the 25th No-
-vember ; on which date it marched
by the grand trunk road towards
Delhi, reaching Gazeeabad, one
march from Delhi, on the 31st
December. No detachments were
absent from head-quarters during
the year.
III. Topography and physical
geography of the surrounding coun -
try and station .—This, with re -
ference to the station of Allaha -
bad, has been frequently described.
Vide annual reports for the years
1871, 1872, and 1873. The
Ganges river, which flows to the
north of the lines, rose to an
unusual height; and, when the water subsided, a larger body of water flowed close to the right
Topography,
&c.
The Ganges.