Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
c auses of
mortality.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Description of
the new hos-
pital.
Out-houses.
Hospital and
bedding.
Sickness,
mortality and.
invaliding.
20 feet, the walls being 13 feet 4 inches high. The flooring is of bricks laid edge-wise.
There are 20 doors and as many windows, and there are two fire-places in each ward. It is
calculated for 50 beds and gives 60 superficial feet per bed. At each end of the building are
two rooms, each 12 feet square ; those at the eastern end are used for dispensary and office;
those at the western for separate wards. The two wards of the hospital are connected by a
large, wide arch. In addition to the foregoing, are two buildings of brick, roofed with tiles,
for infectious diseases. They consist of three separate wards in each, measuring 11½ feet square
each room. These buildings are at some little distance from the hospital and on a lower level.
The out-houses consist of a good bath-room, cook-house, two sets of quarters for hospital
assistants, a set of 12 rooms for hospital servants, a dead-house and latrines, all excellent
and in good repair. No fuel is allowed for the hospital. Each ward is lighted by a large
lamp. The patients bring their own bedding. Up to the number of 50 sick, there is allowed
from the hospital for each man one koorta, one pyjama, one sheet and one pillow-case. The
ventilation is thorough : no crowding. Altogether the hospital and out-houses are excellent
and sufficient for all ordinary requirements. There is also a guard-room about 60 feet to the
north-west of the hospital.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding .—Strength of the regiment
Present . .
.
.
. .
.
. .
.
655.21
Absent . . . .
. .
.
. . .
55.11
Total .
710.32
S T A T I O N .
P E R I O D .
Strength,
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Only
average
number
of sick.
P E R C E N T . O F S T R E N
G T H
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters at Delhie Im-
perial Assemblage.
1st Jan. 1877 1st Feb. 1877 510
47 ...
18.34 105.05 ... 3.59
Head-quarters at Debra-
Dun.
2nd Feb. „ 31st Dec. „
650 326
11 17.68 54.96 1.86 2.72
Depôt at Debra-Dun .
. lst Jan. „ 1st Feb. „
179
6 .
38.21 ... 3.35
TOTAL .
......
......
655.2 379
11 17.4 57.84 1.68 2.65
Number of deaths in hospital, 11; out of hospital, 4; total
15; per cent. of total strength
. 2.11
„ invalided . . . . . . . .
18 ; „
.
2.53
„ sent on sick leave
. . . . . .
6 ; ,
,,
.84
„
of days spent in hospital, 6,475; per admission
.
17.09; per man of total strength
.
9.11
„ „
on sick leave, 292; per man . .
48.66; „
,,
. 44
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
. .
9.52
Epidemics.
Inspection.
The total admissions during the year were 379, a diminution of 246 when compared with
those in 1876. The number of deaths was 15, being an excess of 8 over the number in the
previous year. The number invalided was 18, the same number as in the previous year.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness .—Malarious fevers form the largest number of admis-
sions, 112, being 77 less than in the previous year ; conjunctivitis, 49, nearly the same
as in previous year ; diarrhœa 17; blistered feet 14; in 1876 there were 75 ; dysentery,
13, against 33 in 1876 ; primary syphilis 10 ; phthisis pulmonalis, 9; wounds, 9.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— Of the deaths in hospital, 5 were from tuberculous
disease, viz., phthisis pulmonalis 3 ; mesenteric disease 1 ; tubercle of spleen 1. The
same number of deaths from this cause occurred in 1876. From chest affections 3 deaths,
viz., bronchitis 2 ; asthma 1. From general debility 1 ; from hepatitis 1; hæmorrhoids 1.
In addition to these which occurred in hospital, 4 occurred out of hospital, viz., valvular
disease of heart 1; phthisis pulmonalis 1 ; gun-shot wound 1; and 1 cause unknown.
XVIII. Epidemics.—No epidemic has occurred.
Inspection.--The annual medical inspection was made by Deputy Surgeon-
General J. A. C. Hutchinson, M. D., on the 15th of October. The sanitary circum-
stances of this regiment are very favourable. Of the new hospital it is stated
that all its arrangements are admirably adapted to the wants of a native regi-
ment. The Deputy Surgeon-General notes the absence of urinaries in the lines.
The hospital equipment was complete, and the men in excellent health.