Prevalent
diseases.
Deaths.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
XV.—Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength —present, 599.2; absent, 101.3;
total, 700.5.
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-
tions.
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 Ajmere 1st Jan. 1874. 31st Dec.1874.
431.4
682
5 26.78 158.09
1.16
6.21
Detachment at Beawur . . .
Ditto ditto
Ditto ditto
67.4
49
. . .
1.41
72.70
. . .
2.09
" Sambhur . . . Ditto ditto
Ditto ditto
88.9
98
1
.75 110.11
1.12
.84
Detachment escort A . . . 9th January
6th March
90.
7
. . .
.10
49.82
G. G's Camp.
1874.
1874.
. . .
.11
TOTAL . . . . . .
. . .
599.2
836
6 29.04
139.5
1
4.84
Number of deaths in hospital, 6 ; out of hospital, none ; total, 6 ; per cent. of total strength . . .
.85
" invalided, 16; " " " . . .
2.28
" sent on sick leave, 27 ; " " " . . .
3.85
" of days spent in hospital, 10,834 ; per admission, 12.96; per man of total strength . . . 15.46
" " "on sick leave, 1100 ; per man,40.74; " " " . . . 1.57
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 17.03
Detachment
at Beawur.
Medical
charge.
Location and
movements.
XVI.—Principal causes of sickness.— Fevers give the largest number of admissions,
next rheumatism, conjunctivitis, blistered feet from defective boots, and contusion of shoul
-
der joint from recoil of rifle. There were 17 cases of pneumonia, and 11 of Pleurisy treated.
XVII. Five men died at regimental head-quarters, and 1 on detachment duty at Nawa
(Sambhur), 2 died from remittent fever, 2 pneumonia, 1 pleurisy and one died at Nawa,
reported by the hospital assistant to be from disease of the heart supervening upon acute
rhenmatism.
XVIII. Epidemics.— No epidemic occurred during the year.
XIX. Vaccination.— Nearly all the children in the lines have been vaccinated.
Deputy Surgeon-General E. C. Thorpe, M. D., inspected on the 22nd of
November. He found the sanitary and medical arrangements satisfactory,
and health of the station and regiment good.
The detachment at Beawur was visited on the 2nd of December; the men
were housed in the old regmental hospital, and attended the charitable dispen
-
sary when ill. The station and detachment were healthy, and the medical
duties punctually attended to by Assistant-Surgeon Mohim Chunder Roy.
OUDH DIVISION.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF LUCKNOW, SITAPUR, FYZABAD, AND GORAKHPUR.)
Average daily strength present during the year . . . Cavalry . . .1,171.51 Infantry, . . . 2,295.66
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength . . .
" . . .
3.12
" . . .
3.43
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength . . .
" . . .
.44
" . . .
1.19
19th Regiment , Bengal Cabalry (Lancers)—Lucknow.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Deaths.
Daily sick.
1869 . . .
Peshawar, November
1866, from Meean Meer.
190.9
3.64
6.2
1870 . . .
Mooltan, March 1870 . . .
103.2
1.6
4.14
1871 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
63.5
1.08
2.58
1872 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
111.6
.44
3.16
1873 . . .
Lucknow, February 1873
123.1
.43
4.49
Average . . .
. . .
118.4
1.44
4.11
1874 . . .
L u c k n o w . . .
84.07
.21
3.6
The following medical officers were in charge of the regiment during 1874. Sur
-
geon-Major
G.
A.
Watson,
from 1st January to 15th
April; Surgeon-Major R. F.
Hutchinson, 6th Regiment
Native Infantry, from 15th
April to 21st May; Surgeon
D. P. MacDonald, from 21st
May to 31st December. The
latter officer furnishes the
sanitary report for the year.
II. Location and movements.—
Lcknow has been the head-quar
-
ters of the regiment throughout the year. On the 9th of November, one squadron of the regi
-
ment, commanded by a European officer, was sent on detachment duty to Barrackpore.