Clothing.
Duties.
Hospital.
Bath-room.
Bedding.
Warming.
Repair.
Dead-house.
Sickness, mor
-tality and invaliding.
Small-pox.
Deaths.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
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OUDH DIVISION.
The drainage, conservancy and water-supply are all reported on as being
good. The food supplies have been sufficient, and the men have been feeding
better them in 1873, as very few of those admitted into hospital presented
scorbutic symptoms.
Drainage, &c.
Food.
The clothing is of the same quality mentioned in last report.
The duties of the men were very light. Number of nights in bed 10.23.
The men of this regiment competed in games held by H. M.'s 51st
K. O. L. I.. and the 2nd Bengal Cavalry.
Amusements
99 men volunteered for, and were sent on duty to, the famine districts.
Famine duty.
XIV. Hospital.— Beyond the addition of a bath-room in accordance with instructions
contained in the Quater Master General's circular No. 1570, of the 7th May 1873, no change
has been made in the building. Part of the verandah at the north end has been built in fox
this purpose, and answers very well. It contains all the articles detailed in the above circular,
and the men seem to take advantage of the opportunities thus offered them for bathing. In
many cases, however, during the cold weather, from the danger of catching cold, I hesitate
to order a warm bath where, under other circumstances, I should consider it highly beneficial.
As formerly, the sepoys are provided with only a bare charpoy, all articles of bedding clothing,
&c., being left to themselves to get. In consequence of this arrangement they often come
into hospital with merely a thin and worn-out r ezai, which is generally in a filthy
condition. With no means of warming the hospital, which at all times is open and draughty,
they must, under these circumstances, suffer considerably from cold. At present the roof of
the hospital stands much in need of repairs, a great number of the barrel-staves which support
the tiles having become unsound from the ravages of white-ants. I have directed the attention
of the Executive Engineer to the matter, and I have no doubt that in a short time it will be
rectified. A dead-house is still a desideratum.
XV.—Sickness, mortality and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—present, 572
absent, 119; total, 691.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUM-
BER OF
D a i l y a v e r a g e n u m b e r o f s i c k .
PER CENT. OF
STRENGTH PER AN-
NUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k .
Head-quarters at Fyzabad. 1st January
1874.
31st December
1874.
572
522
4 16.89 91.25
. 6 9 2.95
Number of deaths in hospital, 4; out of hospital, 8; total, 12 per cent. of total strength . . . 1.73
" i n v a l i d e d , 1 0 ; p e r c e n t . o f t o t a l s t r e n g t h . . .
1.43
" sent on sick leave, 7; per cent, of total strength . . . 1.01
" of days spent in hospital, 5,680; per admission 10.88 per man of total strength . . . 8.22
" on sick leave 1,033; per man 147.57; per man of total strength . . .
1.49
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . .
9.71
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— There has been a marked diminution from 1873 in
the number of admissions under most of these. The malarial class of fevers, despite the
much greater and more protracted rainfall, give 140, against 269; diarrhœa 47, against 70,
and dysentery 30, against 40. In blisters of the feet, however, we have a rise from 52
to 79, although in no case did such intractable ulcers result as we had to deal with in that
year; 48 out of the 79 admitted occurred in the rainy months of July, August Sep
-tember and October, when the skin, from the influence of the weather, gives way more
r e a d i l y . I a s c r i b e t h e g r e a t e r i mmu n i t y f r o m t h e f i r s t - n a me d d i s e a s e s , n o t t o a n y d i f f e r e n c e i n
the Climatic influences of the two years, but to the longer time the regiment has had to recover
from the effects of its residence in Alipore.
There were 7 cases of small-pox at the beginning of the year, all of which were exceed
-ingly mild and recovered.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— Of the 4 deaths in hospital, two were due to
ague. one to phthisis, and one to hepatitis.
XVIII. Epidemics.— None occurred during the year.
XIX. Vaccination.— The men are well protected by inoculation previous to en
-listment.
An inspection visit was paid by Deputy Surgeon-General H. M. Cannon, M.B.,
on the 10th July 1874, and 21st January 1875. The drainage about the hospital
was noted as indifferent, and the drains in the lines were choked up with sand.
The men's hats were small, and not very well ventilated. The regiment was,
however, very healthy. A bit of the hospital verandah had been enclosed for a
Prevalent
diseases.