Medical
officer.
Location and
movements.
Detachments.
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
171
The marked increase observable in the number of admissions during the past year may, I
think, be partly attributed to the number of recruits enlisted— viz., 103—and partly to the bat-
tery coming in mid-winter from the malarious, though even-tempered, climate of Edwardesabad
to the rigorous cold of Kohat, especially as on arriving at Kohat, there being no lines avail-
able, the men had to remain under canvas from 6th January to the 21st April. The large
number of recruits entertained was due to the battery being changed from a field to a
mountain battery, and the recruits were required to complete the driver establishment. Six
men were invalided against one in 1876, owing to their being unfit for mountain battery work.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— Out of a total of 370 admissions, 146 were caused
by malarious fevers, 80 by contusions, and 38 by dysentery and diarrhœa (more than two-thirds
of the entire admissions). The excessive admissions from contusion are entirely attributable to
the fact that all, or nearly all, the mules were young and untrained. Sometimes the least noise
stampeded them, and the drivers were more or less unaccustomed to manage them. Ten
cases are returned under the head of sunstroke. These cases occurred on the 30th August, but
all returned to duty on 1st September. Three admissions were caused by primary syphilis and
two by blisters of feet.
XVII.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— One death from enteric fever.
No epidemic occurred during the year.
Causes of,
increased
admissions.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality
Epidemics.
No. 5 Carrison Battery of Artillery—Kohat.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
. Kohat .
.
.
.
143.3
1.3
4.5
1873
. Ditto .
.
.
.
167.8
1.4
6.
1874
. Ditto .
.
.
.
127.
1.5
3.2
1875
. Ditto .
.
.
.
160.16
3.3
5.
1876
. Ditto .
.
.
.
163.77
7.15
4.9
Average
.
.
152.4
2.93
4.72
1877
. Kohat .
.
.
.
100.53
1.53
3.37
Present
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
50.73
Absent
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
14.34
T o t a l
.
6 5 . 0 7
I. Medical officer.—Surgeon T. Moloney, M.D., furnishes the annual
report.
II. Location, and movements.—
The battery is quartered in the
Kohat Fort as a permanency. A
detachment of ten men was fur-
nished to garrison the fort at
Edwardesabad from 9th May to
the end of the year; a second
detachment, strength thirty-
two, marched en route to Quetta
on 27th October 1877.
The sanitary circum-
stances of the battery appeal
to have undergone no change
during the year. The sick
are treated in the "Artillery hospital."
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the battery—
STATION.
PERIOD.
S t r e n g t h .
TOTAL
NUMBER O F S T R E N G T H .
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
R E M A R K S .
From
To
Admis-
sions.
Admi s -
si ons.
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k s .
Head-quarters at
Kohat.
1st Jan. 1877 31st Dec. 1877 40.13
50 ...
1.69 122.75 ...
4.14
No medical officer
or hospital
assistant with
detachment en
route to Quetta.
Detachment
at
Edwardesabad.
9th May 1877
Ditto
.
10
1 ...
.2
19.64 ...
.20
Total
.
. . .
...
50.13
51 ...
1.71 100.53 ...
3.37
Number of deaths in hospital, 0; out of hospital, 1; total
1 ; per cent. of total strength
.
1.53
„
invalided
,
, . .
.
.
.
.
3 ;
„
„
.
.
4.61
„
sent on sick leave
,
,
.
.
. . 1 ;
„
„
.
1.53
„
of days spent in hospital,
627 ; per admission 12.29 ; per man of total strength
.
9.63
„
„
on sick leave, 122; per man
.
122;
„
„
„
.
1.87
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength .
. 11.51