Prevalent
diseases.
Deaths.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
Defects.
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RAWAL PINDI DIVISION.
The same work is now being carried out on the other half.
Chicks have been supplied for the doors and windows of the occupied portion of the hos
-pital by the officer commanding, who has also given a kerosine lamp, and a monthly allowance
of kerosine oil on a liberal scale, and slight as they are, those improvements have added much
to the comfort of the place. Fires and fire-places are still wanting; the Brigadier-General
commanding the station, the Major General of the division, and the Deputy Surgeon-General
of the circle have done all they could to get them, but up to the present they have not been
sanctioned.
It is hard that, while the convicts in the jail, and the paupers in the charitable dispensary,
are allowed fires during the severe cold weather which prevails at this station, soldiers
should not be supplied with what at this time of the year is not only essential to their com
-fort, but what would hasten their recovery, and the want of which undoubtedly in cases of
fever, bowel, chest, and rheumatic affections retards their cure.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—present 372; absent
84; total 456.
STATIONS.
PERIOD.
S t r e n g t h .
TOTAL NUM-BER OF
D a i l y a v e r a g e n u mb 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 Sialkot . . . 1st January. 31st Dec. . . .
372
575
2 20.95 154.57
. 5 4 5.62
Number of deaths in hospital, 2; out of hospital, 0, total, 2; per cent. of total strength . . .
.44
" invalided, 20; " " " . . .
4.38
" sent on sick leave, 28; " " " . . .
6.14
" of days spent in hospital, 7,650; per admission, 13.30; per man " . . . 16.77
" " " on sick leave, 3,375; per man, 99.26;* " " . . .
7.40
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 24.17
The principal causes of sickness were fevers, bowel complaints, accidents,
rheumatism, chest and skin diseases. Two accidental deaths occurred, one poi
-soning by carbolic acid, and one by concussion.
No epidemic occurred, and 60 children belonging to the regiment were
vaccinated.
Deputy Surgeon-General G. H. Ray, M. D., paid a visit of inspection on
the 13th of March. The sanitary condition of the lines was good, hospital
arrangements satisfactory, with the exception that medical subordinates' houses,
detached wards for infectious cases, and a dead-house were wanting. The for
-mer were in course of construction. The regiment had been very healthy, and
the men, who were inspected individually by the Deputy Surgeon-General, pre
-sented a robust appearance.
15th (The Ludhiana) Regiment of Native Infantry—Sialkot.
Chicks.
Lighting.
Warming.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
The regiment has been stationed at Sialkot throughout the year under
medical charge of Surgeon
-Major J. J. McDermott. M. D.
The medical officer reports
that the huts are very low
and narrow internally, and
are very close during the hot
season, and that the entire
cubic space they afford does
not, when the regiment is up
to strength, give half the
regulation allowance to each
man sleeping in them, after
deducting all absentees for
duty, &c. He further points
out that the want of veran
-dahs adds greatly to the
* Note.—6 men were absent in 1874, who were sent on sick leave the year before, making in all 34 on sick leave in the past year.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Deaths.
Daily sick.
1869 . . . Ferozepore, Jan. 1866,
from Doranda.
99.7
. 4 2.4
1870 . . . Peshawur, Nov. 1869 . . .
313.5
5.
10.1
1871 . . .
Do. do. . . .
179.4
4.9
5.1
1 8 7 2 . . .
Do. do. . . .
149.3
5.
3.5
1873 . . . Sialkot, Feb. 1873 . . .
81.4
3.3
2.6
Average . . .
. . .
165.2
3.7
4.7
1874 . . . Sialkot . . .
64.4
1 . 7 2
2.5
Location.
Huts.
Defects.
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