Medical
officer.
Location and
movements.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
162
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
S T A T I O N .
PERIOD.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
Pau CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Strength
A d m i s -
sions. Deaths.
Admis-sions. Deaths.
D a i l y
average
sick.
Dera Ismail Khan
.
. 1st Jan. 1877 4th Mar. 1877
158.28
65
...
11.04 237.91
...
6.97
En route to Abbottabad
. 5th Mar. 1877 27th Mar. 1877 159.
15
...
4.43 264.84
...
2.78
Abbottabad
. 28th Mar 1877 2nd Nov. 187 7
136.76
148
...
6.11 176.22
...
4.46
„
Detachment
. 3rd Nov. 1877 31st Dec. 1877
73.66
19
...
4.40 159.57
...
5.97
Jowaki Field Force
.
.
Ditto
Ditto
85.52
26
...
10.96 188.07
...
12.81
TOTAL
.
. . .
. . . 145.70 273 ...
7.31 187.37
...
5.01
Number of deaths in hospital, 0; out of hospital, 0; total
0; per cent, of total strength
.
0
"
invalided
.
. .
.
. . 1;
"
"
.61
,,
sent on sick leave
.
.
.
.
.
.
1 ;
"
,,
.61
„
of days spent in hospital, 2,692; per admission .
9.86; per man of total strength .
.
16.65
"
"
on sick leave 14;
.
.
.
14; per man
"
.
.
.09
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
.
16.73
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Mortality, &c.
Inspection.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— As occurs year after year, the largest number of
admissions was due to intermittent fevers, of which there were 107, or more than half. Con-
tusions, caused chiefly by kicks from mules, stand next in f
requency, viz., 65 ; abcesses, boils,
ulcers, &c., 25 ; diarrhœa and dysentery 22 ; spleen complaints 7; liver ditto 4 ; bronchial
and pleuritic 14 (no case of pneumonia having occurred) ; blister of feet 5 ; and chronic
rheumatism 5. The rest consisted of single cases of other diseases.
There was no death and no epidemic during the year. Seventeen children
were vaccinated. The issue of a daily dram to men in camp was recommended
and adopted.
Inspection.— The battery was inspected by Deputy Surgeon-General F. F.
Allen, C.B., on the 27th of September. The health of the men on arrival from
Dera Ismail Khan was indifferent, owing to malarious disease and its sequelæ.
The men were in tents, and the sick treated in one of the 5th Goorkhas' wards
of the station hospital. The hospital arrangements were found to be satisfac-
tory. The Deputy Surgeon-General points out the necessity of attaching
a good hospital assistant to these batteries, for a subordinate of this class is
often in sole medical charge of them.
No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery—Abbottabad.
I. Medical officer.—Surgeon J. T. B. Bookey submits a brief report of
this battery.
II. Location and movements.— The
battery remained at Kohat from
the 1st of January to 21st of April,
when it marched for Abbottabad,
arriving at that station on the 2nd
May. Here it remained till 2nd No-
vember. On the 3rd of November
the battery marched from Abbotta-
bad to take part in the Jowaki ex-
pedition, where it was engaged till
the end of the year.
The sanitary circum-
stances of the battery appear
to have been favorable to
health during the year. Sur-
geon Bookey was not in medical charge during the period of active service, and
is unable to give any details on the subject.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment
—
Present
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 141.80
Absent
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
24.18
Total
.
. 165.98
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Deaths.
Daily sick.
1872
. Kohat, March 1871
.
228.6
2.3
3.5
1873
. Abbottabad, Feb. 1873 .
148.
1.2
2.9
1874
.
Ditto
.
178.3
...
3.1
1875
. Kohat, March 1875
.
284.96
1.2
5.65
1876
. Kohat .
.
.
.
269.35
. 6 4.3
Average
.
.
221.84
1.06
3.89
1877
. Abbottabad .
.
.
138.92
. 6 3.47