Prevalent
diseases.
Deaths.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
The hot season of 1874
was not a trying one, and
the rains were of average
quantity and duration.
Surgeon Reid again re
-
peats his opinion regard
-
ing the bad ventilation of
the huts, and mentions that
although the huts had
been repaired after the
rains, there was "no alter
-
ation made in their plan."
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Amusements.
The drainage, conservancy and water-supply are considered to be satisfactory. The men
have been well fed and suitably clothed; duty not excessive, average number of nights in bed 4.
On the subject of amusements, Surgeon Murray writes:—"The men are
constantly employed at tent-pegging, lime-cutting, fencing, &c. As a rule,
they get prizes every month, and are in consequence more than ordinarily pro
-
ficient at these exercises."
XIV. Hospital.— There is no cavalry hospital at Fyzabad, the old quarter-guard building
being used as a hospital.
Sickness, mor-
tality and invaliding.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding,—Strength—present, 382.3; absent, 73.5; total, 455.8.
S T A T I O N .
P E R I O D .
S t r e n g t h .
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 ANNUM.
F r o m .
T o .
A d m i s - s i o n s .
Deaths.
Admis-sions.
D e a t h s .
Daily average sick.
H e a d - q u a r t e r s a t F y z a - b a d a n d c a m p .
1 s t J a n u a r y 1 8 7 4 .
3 1 s t D e c e m - b e r 1 8 7 4 .
2 1 9 . 1
2 1 9
1
8 . 3 99.9
. 5
3.8
D e t a c h m e n t a t G o r a k h - p u r .
1 5 t h M a r c h 1 8 7 4 .
3 1 s t D i t t o
5 0 .
1 1
. . .
. 5 27.5
. . .
1.
" a t D i n a p o r e
5 t h D i t t o
3 1 s t D i t t o
1 4 .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . . . . .
" B e n a r e s . . .
5 t h D i t t o
3 1 s t D i t t o
1 4 .
3 . . .
. 0 4
25.9
. . .
.3
" a t S e g o w l i e
4 t h D i t t o
3 1 s t D i t t o
1 0 4 . 7
9 4
1
4 . 1
108.2
1 . 1
3.9
T o t a l . . .
3 8 2 . 3
3 2 7
2
1 2 . 2
85.5
. 5
3.2
Number of deaths in hospital, 2; out of hospital, 1, total, 3; per cent. of total, strength . . .
.6
" i n v a l i d e d , . . . 1 0 ; " " . . .
2.2
" sent on sick leave, . . .4; " " . . .
.9
" of days spent in hospital, 4,482; per admission, 13.7 per man " " . . .
9.8
" " on sick leave, 168; per man, 42. " " " . . . .4
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 10.2
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— The greatest number of admissions into hospital
were, as usual, from intermittent fever, 86; next from abscess, 26; ulcers, 26; next contusions,
22; most of the cases of fever were very slight.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.— Of the three fatal cases, the one at head-quarters
was that of a man who died from pneumonia when the regiment was in camp in Lucknow;
the second was that of a man who died on detachment duty at Gorakhpur, returned as a case
of asthma, probably an obscure heart affection; the third fatal case was that of a man who
died at his own house of diarrhœa.
XVIII. Epidemics— There were no epidemics during the year.
XIX. There were no men vaccinated during the year. Most of the men are protected either
by previous attacks of small-pox, or by inoculation. Several camp followers were vaccinated.
Deputy Surgeon-General H. M. Cannon, M. B., inspected on the 10th of
J u l y
1874. He found 7 men in hospital (the quarter-guard). There was no shelter
for the medical establishment, and the stores and records were kept in the same
building as the patients; the bath-room arrangements were also defective.
8th Regiment Native Infantry,— Fyzabad.
Medical
charge.
The regiment has been stationary at Fyzabad during 1874, and Surgeon
A. Scott Reid has contin
ued in medical charge
throughout the year.
Meteorology.
Ventilation
of the huts.
Y E A R .
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1 8 6 9 . . . Jhansi, December. 1867
from Bareilly.
301.2
1 . 8
6.8
1 8 7 0 . . . Alipore, January 1870 . . . 238.
3 . 4
6.2
1 8 7 1 . . . Ditto ditto . . . 159.9
3 . 5 7
5.4
1 8 7 2 . . . Ditto ditto . . . 244.2
3 . 1 3
6 34
1 8 7 3 . . . Fyzabad, January 1873 110.8
2 . 6 3
3.27
210.8
2.91 5.6
1 8 7 4 . . . Fyzabad . . .91.2
1 . 7 3
2.95