Medical.
officer.
Location,
Meteorology.
Lines.
Drainage.
Conservancy.
Water-supply.
Diet.
Mahwa.
Clothing.
Duty.
Exercise and
amusements.
Hospital.
Sickness, mor
-tality, and
invaliding.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Deaths.
SAUGOR DISTRICT.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF JUBBULPORE, SAUGOR, BANDA, NAGODE, AND NOWGONG.)
Bengal Troops.
Madras Troops.
Average daily strength present during the year . . . Cavalry only 368.1 Cavalry 252.4 Infantry 2,637.1
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength . . .
" 3.7 " 3.3 " 3.5
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength . . .
" .90 " 1.4 " .85
16th Regiment Madras Native Infantry,—Jubbulpore.
Surgeon-Major Theobalds was in charge during the entire year and writes
the report. The Regiment was stationary during the year. The season was
pleasant and favorable to health ; the rainfall amounted to nearly 87 inches,
which was about 30 inches above the average.
As the lines were laid out for a Bengal Native infantry regiment, and
did not afford sufficient accommodation for one from Madras, 300 huts were
built according to Madras pattern ; there is not, therefore, any overcrowding
of the men. The streets in the lines run parallel with the prevailing winds,
and, consequently, a free circulation of air is generally kept up in the lines.
Each of the Madras-pattern huts gives 120 square feet of superficial area, and
855 cubic feet of breatlung space for the sepoy and his family. The drainage
was good. Attached to the huts of the married sepoys is a small latrine, in
which with the solid excreta, dry earth is used, but the urine and other liquids
run down a drain into a gurrah. The public latrines are on the trench system
and answer well. Some of the ground formerly used has been cultivated, and
yielded good crops.
The water is from wells,— is of good quality and abundant. Bazar supplies
are cheap and plentiful the medical officer did not notice that any of the men
were underfed or used.improper food. Mahwa is sold in the lines, but no man is
allowed to take more than two drams daily.
Surgeon-Major Theobalds does not consider the native or undress clothing
sufficiently warm for the cold nights. Duty is severe but not injurious.
The men play at cricket and athletic games. There is a gymnasium in the
lines frequented by the recruits, orderly boys, and some of the sepoys.
The hospital is conveniently situated with regard to the lines, affords
ample accommodation for the sick of the regiment, and is a lofty, well venti
-lated building. The doors of the hospital being glazed, the patients can, in
the cold or rainy weather, shut them with comfort.
XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment— present 674.02,
absent 26.54; total 700.56.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL
NUMBER 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
ANNUM.
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 Jubbulpore 1st January
1874.
31st Decem-
ber 1874.
674.02
516
3 15.74 76.55 .44
2.33
Number of deaths in hospital, 3; out of hospital, 1; total. 4 ; per cent. of total strength . . .
.57
" i n v a l i d e d 2 ; " " " . . .
.28
" s e n t o n s i c k l e a v e 1 ; " " " . . .
. 1 4
" o f d a y s s p e n t i n h o s p i t a l , 5 , 7 4 5 . 1 0 ; p e r a d m i s s i o n , 1 1 . 1 3 p e r m a n o f t o t a l s t r e n g t h . . .
8.20
" " on sick leave, 1,576.80; per man, 1576.8 ; " " . . .
2.25
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 10.45
Malarious fevers caused nearly half of the total admissions into hospital
during the year. The three deaths in hospital were caused by dysentery, ague
(and diarrhœa) and pneumonia ; that out of hospital (a native officer) by fatty
degeneration of the heart.