Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
PESHAWAR DISTRICT.
159
31st, the camp was half a mile from the foot of the hills, and pitched on a broken and irregular
piece of ground, intersected by numerous ravines. The soil was a heavy clay, and being under
cultivation When the weather was wet, which was a frequent occurrence, the ground became a
perfect swamp, and it took several days of bright sunshine to dry. In many respects no worse
ground could have been selected, but the water-supply was good and near, and the guns and
detachment on the ridge only two miles distant, and on those accounts the camp was not sub-
sequently moved. With this in view, surveys were made of the neighbouring country, but I
believe in no one particular spot was there found sufficient water for the whole force, and a
proposition of the General ' s to divide it into three camps was not carried out. On Christmas
day a reconnoissance was made through the Bori Pass, and the regiment had a long and trying
march, commencing at 4 A . M. and returning to camp at dusk. On the 31st the force again
started at the same hour, and, marching through the Bori Pass, descended into the Peshawar
valley, and at midday captured the Jowaki villages there after interchanging a few shots
with the enemy. The head-quarters of the regiment occupied a deserted village, leaving two
companies to guard the Bori Pass, and a company on a hill which commanded a Pushteoni
village. In this valley, which is over 2,000 feet above the sea, there was intense frost, and the
water in the bottles of the men who were on the hill became frozen, and in the morning they
were unable either to drink or wash their faces. The water-supply was good and plentiful both
from wells and small chur streams.
XIV. Hospital.—There has been no change in regard to the hospital since last report,
except that chicks were supplied for the verandahs in the beginning of the summer, and these
have added materially to the comfort of the patients. The building has been in fair repair, and
the accommodation good.
XV. Sickness. mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—
Present
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 594.96
Absent
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 110.63
Total
.
. 705.59
Capture of
Jowaki
villages.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
The camp
below the
ridge.
S T A T I O N .
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
O F
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. Or STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions.
Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
sick..
Head-quarters Nowshera and
Camp Puslteoni.
1st Jan. 1877 31st Dec. 1877 445.25
493
1
11.42 110.72
. 2 2 2.56
Detachment at Fort Abazai . 3rd Jan. „
9th Nov. „
127.86
162
1
1.97 180.35 1.1
1.87
Ditto
Shumshuttoo . 29th Sep. ,,
30th Nov. ,,
70.11
14
...
.18 127.27 ...
1.63
Depôt at Nowshera
.
. 2nd Nov. „
31st Dec. „
171.3
97
...
3.06 303.12 ...
9.56
Total
.
.
594.96
766
2
16.63 128.74
. 3 3 2.79
Number of deaths in hospital 2 ; out of hospital, 0; total .
2; per cent of total strength
.
.
.28
"
invalided
.
25; .
.
.
25;
"
„
.
.
3.54
"
sent on sick leave 4; .
.
.
4;
„
„
.
.
.56
„ of days spent in hospital 6,070 ; per admission . 7.93; per man of total strength .
8.60
„
on sick leave 514 per man
.
. 128.50;
„
.72
Total loss to the service per man of total strength .
.
.
.
.
9.33
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—The principal cause of sickness has, as hitherto;
been fever, 309 cases. Dysentery of a mild type comes next with 79 admissions, then
contusions 30; diarrhæa 29; bronchitis, 24, and boils 20 admissions. There is nothing in the
prevalence of these diseases or in their character to call for special remark.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— Both deaths were caused by pneumonia; the
one in the regimental hospital, the other in hospital at Shabkadar. There was nothing
unusual in the course and termination of the disease in the man who died at Nowshera.
X V I I I . E p i d e m i c s . —
T h e r e
have been none.
X I X . V a c c i n a t i o n . —
O w i n g
to the regiment being on service in November and De-
cember, only 30 men were vaccinated, 26 successfully, in the beginning of the year. Many
of the recruits are vaccinated, and some inoculated before enlistment, and all unprotected
are vaccinated after joining. During the cold months I am in the habit of vaccinating all
the unprotected women and children in the regimental bazar and lines. There may, however
be now a few unprotected recruits who have recently joined, and some children in the lines.
X X . R e c o m m e n d a t i o n s . —
N o n e .
X X I . S p e c i a l o b s e r v a t i o n s a n d r e m a r k s . —T
h e
a c t u a l s e r v i c e o f t h e r e g i m e n t a s f a r
as the present report extends, occupied only 28 days, from the 4th December, when the
first advance was made and the Shergussa ridge taken. From the 2nd November the regi-
ment was in camp in the immediate neighbourhood of the scene of operations, but during that
time nothing worthy of remark occurred.
Recomm enda-
tions.
Special
observations
and remarks.