Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Recommend-
ations.
Special
observations.
Inspection.
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of constipation and 2 of dyspepsia. Rheumatism yielded 16 admissions. Chest affections,
17 in have been less frequent than might have been expected considering the severity
of the cold weather at this station. The cellulo-cutaneous group, including abscess, ulcer and
boil, gave 56 admissions, and wounds, contusions, and other injuries incidental to the mounted
branch of the service, yielded 59 cases.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—The
mortality during the year was fortunately
small : of the 403 cases treated, 4 proved fatal. The first was in an old debilitated man who
was admitted suffering from chronic bronchitis, but symptoms of a sub-acute type set in under
which he rapidly succumbed. Two cases resulted from pneumonia; in both the symptoms from
the first were grave, and quickly went on to a fatal termination. The fourth death arose from
acute peritonitis.
XVIII. Epidemics.—There was no epidemic visitation during the year, and the general
health both in cantonments and the neighbourhood has been good.
XIX. Vaccination.— Many of the men were vaccinated during the year, most of them
being well protected either by inoculation or previous vaccination.
XX.
Recommendations.— Several recommendations were made during the year as to
sanitation, water-supply, &c., and they have invariably received the best attention of the
regimental authorities.
XXI. Special observations.— There w e r e 5 0 r e c r u i t s e n t e r t a i n e d d u r i n g t h e y e a r ; a l l o f
them well-developed young men, and in every way fitted to become efficient soldiers.
The health of the camp-followers has been very good.
Inspection.—Deputy Surgeon-General F. F. Allen, C.B., inspected on the
3rd of September 1877. The men were well housed, but the huts are rather
small for married men with. families. Efforts were made to improve ventilation
in these cases by boring holes in the walls. The sanitation of the lines was
satisfactory. The hospital affords ample accommodation and was in good
repair. All the hospital equipment was in excellent order, and the sick care-
fully looked after. The men were in good health, and there were only 12 cases
in hospital.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
11th Regiment, Aatibe Infantry—Rawal Pindi.
I. Medical Officer .—Surgeon-Major J. Duncan held medical charge of
head-quarters throughout the
year.
II. Location and movements.—
The regiment has been stationed
during the whole year at Rawal
Pindi, furnishing the following
detachments viz., 1 European
officer and 175 Native officers and
men to Fort Attock, from 1st
January to 9th. February; 59
Native officers and men to Mur-
ree, from 30th April to 4th Au-
gust ; and 1 European officer
and 176 Native officers and men
to Fort Attock, from 24th October
to 31st December.
V. Meteorology.—The
meteorology of the past year was characterized by a very scanty
rainfall during the monsoon months, a long hot season, and exceptionally heavy rains in the
cold weather. The total rainfall, as measured at. the 11th Native Infantry hospital, was 37.2
inches, which is 4 inches over. the average of the previous five years. The heat began to be
oppressive towards the end of May, and continued so till the beginning of September. During
July, August and September, the usual rainy season, only 4 inches of rain fell. For the first
two and last two months of the year, the weather was excessively. wet and changeable, the
rainfall for the four months being no less than 24 inches.
Some of the huts leaked badly during the heavy rain, but otherwise they
are unchanged. Drainage and conservancy remain as previously reported.
Movable screens and trenches have been provided for the inhabitants of the
sudden bazar ; it became necessary, owing to the scanty rainfall, to deepen some
of the wells, which then yielded a good and sufficient supply.
IX. Diet.— For the first-half of the year the prices of the staple articles of diet were
very cheap : atta selling at 30 to 33, and dal at 10 to 12, seers per rupee. In July, a rise in
prices, consequent on the failure of the rains, began, which was soon enhanced and maintained
during the remainder of the year by a brisk export trade in grain created by the high prices
down-country. For the last four months the average rates for atta and dal were 15½ seers of the
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
. Bareilly, Feb. 1872
.
97.1
5.69
4.28
1873
.
Ditto
51.
.57
1.66
1874
.
Ditto
42.6
.28
1.5
1875
.
D i t t o
54.96
1.29
1.9
1876
. Rawal Pindi, Mar. 1876.
101.37
.94
2.86
Average
.
.
.
69.4
1.75
2.44
1877
Rawal Pindi
.
83.13
.42
2.33
Medical
Officer.
Location and
movements.
Detachments.
Meteorology.
Rainfall.
Huts.
Drainage and
Conservancy.
Wells.
Diet.