Sickness.
Mortality
Epidemics.
Several cases of scurvy had occurred from underfeeding. Measures had been
adopted to obviate this. The hospital had been improved by a new pucka
flooring having been made in one of the wards. A dead-house and isolation
ward were wanted. The Deputy Surgeon-General considers that one good ward
for infectious cases for the use of the three regiments would be better than
an indifferent one for each. The hospital was in good order and its furniture
and equipment complete and serviceable.
21st (Punjab) Ragiment, Native Infantry—Rawal Pindi.
L Medical Officers.—The annual report is written by Surgeon W. A. C. Roe,
who was absent from 21st
February to 16th November,
the charge in the interval
being held by Surgeon R. N.
Stoker and Surgeon-Major
J
. Duncan, M.D.
II. Movements,
head-quarters of the regiment
remained at Rawal Pindi through-
out the year ; detachments hav-
ing been furnished to Fort Attock,
Murree, and His Honor the Lieu-
tenant-Governor's, Punjab, Camp
at different times.
No change of any con-
sequence has taken place in
the sanitary circumstances
of the corps. The price of provisions was high, but care was taken that the
men obtained and consumed a sufficiency of good food, and no cases of under-
feeding came to notice.
Hospital.—The hospital is the same as that all along occupied since the arrival of
the regiment in Pindi ; it is in good repair and contains ample accommodation for the wants
of the men. There is abundance of sheets, blankets, bedding, &c., and it is quite warm in the
cold season.
XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment—
Present
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 599.46
Absent .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 105.60
Total •
.
705.06
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
Peshawar, Nov. 1870,
2.
2.
1873
Ditto
1874
. Rawal Pindi, Mar. 1874
100.9
4.
2.5
1875
Ditto
75.6
2.9
2.5
1876
. Rawal Pindi
45.87
1.14
1.82
48.18 ...
1.54
Average
71.63
2.00
2.07
1877
. Rawal Pindi
69.06
. 7 0 1.58
Medical
Officers.
Movements.
Diet.
Hospital.
Sickness,
mortality, and
invaliding.
S T A T I O N .
PERIOD.
TOTAL NUMBER
O F
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OP STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Strength.
Admis-
s i o n s .
Deaths.
A d m i s -
s i o n s . Deaths.
Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters, Rawal Pindi. 1st Jan. 1877 31st Dec. 1877 499.7
379
3
8.3 75.84 .60
1.66
Detachment at Fort Attack . 30th Jan. 1877 3rd May 1877 176.
25
. . .
1.75 55.16
...
.99
"
"
Murree
. 30th July 1877 11th Nov. 1877
58.
7
...
.
8 2 41.95
...
1.41
„
„ Lt.-Govr.'s Camp 29th Nov.1877 31st Dec. 1877 353.
3
.53 9.40
...
.15
Total
...
. . .
599.46
414
3
9.47 69.06 .50
1.58
Number of deaths in hospital, 3 ; out of hospital, 2, total
5 ; per cent. of total strength .
.70
invalided
.
.
•
•
.
•
.
6;
"
"
.85
„
sent on sick leave .
.
.
.
.
3 ;
"
,,
.
. .42
„
of days spent in hospital, 3,163 ; per admission
7.64; per man of total strength
. 4.48
"
"
on sick leave, 365 ; per man . 121.66;
"
"
.
.51
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
5.00
XVI Sickness.—The principal causes of sickness as shown by the returns were fevers,
chest and bowel-complaints, but they appear to have been very mild.
XVII. Mortality .—Three deaths took place during the year, one caused by enteric fever, a
second by acute bronchitis, and the third by dysentery.
XVIII. Epidemics.—None.
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