Principal
causes of
sickness.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
187
Sickness,
mortality, and
invaliding.
XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.—Strength of the regiment
—
Present
.
. .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. 626.74
Absent
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
114.53
Total
.
. 741.27
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Daily
average sick.
Head-quarters at Delhi
. 1st Jan. 1877 6th Jan. 1877
"
on the march 6th
ditto . 29th Mar. 1877
609.40
683
4
15.56 11.91 .65
2.55
"
at Dora Ismail Khan 29th Mar. 1877 31st Dec. 1877
Wing at Dera Ghazi Khan . 19th Dec. 1877
Ditto
.
187.14
27
...
2.07 14.42
...
1.10
Detachments at Zam outpost 6th Apl. 1877 15th June 1877
29.46
9
...
.12 30.54
...
.40
"
Zam outpost 7th Sep. 1877 14th Dec. 1877
54.72
8
. . .
.08 14.62 ...
14
,,
Girnee, Man-
jee, &c.
6th Apl. 1877 31st ditto
.
69.77
23
1
.08 32.96 1.43
.11
"
Sheik Budin 21st Sep. 1877 26th Oct. 1877
20.16
...
...
. . .
...
...
. . .
Depôt at Dera Ismail Khan . 1st Jan. 1877 29th Mar. 1877 127.87
40
...
.45 31.28
...
.35
Total
...
...
626.74
789
5
18.01 125.89
.79
2.87
Number of deaths in hospital, 5 ; out of hospital, 4 ; total
9 ; per cent, of total strength
.
1.21
„
invalided .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
13 ;
,,
"
.
. . 1.75
„
sent on sick leave
.
.
.
.
.
.
10 ;
,,
"
.
. . 1.35
„
of days spent in hospital, 6,629; per admission
8.40; per man of total strength
.
8.94
"
"
on sick leave, 984; per man .
. 98.40;
„
"
.
.
.
1.32
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
.
10.27
Principal causes of sickness .—Fevers and their sequelæ give, as usual, the greater
part of the admissions. In December we had a good many cases of lung affections, which
were confined almost exclusively to the Dogra companies. I attribute this to two pernicious
habits they have, viz., of bathing very early in the morning, and of cooking their food in a
state of almost complete nudity. My hospital assistant Ram Churn has been among them
warning them, and the Subadar Major, himself a Dogra, informed me that he had spoken to
them on this subject. The other diseases do not call for particular notice.
Principal causes of mortality.— One man died in hospital of fever ; one of
remittent fever ; one of a complication of bronchitis, dysentery and splenitis; one of dysentery ;
and one of pneumonia.
Epidemics.— None.
XXI. Special observations and remarks .—From a somewhat extensive use of the cinchona
febrifuge as a substitute for quinine, I am opinion that it is nearly as powerful as a febrifuge.
It is au exceedingly economical and efficient medicine in all cases of ordinary intermittent
fever.
2nd Regiment, Punjab Infantry—Dera Ismail Khan.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
A d m i s s i o n s .
Deaths.
Daily sick.
1872
Dera Ghazi Khan from
1 7 5 8
2
6.1
Kohat, January 1872 .
1873
Ditto
1 7 3 . 3
1.9
5.1
1874
D i t t o
1 9 4 . 1
1.2
4.8
1875
Dera Ismail Khan, Janu- a r y 1 8 7 5
1876
D i t t o
1 3 2 . 5
.42
3.41
A v e r a g e
1 6 1 . 3 81.60
4.74
1877
Dera Ismail Khan
1 2 1 . 2 7
.96
3.95
I. Medical officer.—Surgeon A. Macgregor, who assumed medical charge
of the corps on the 22nd of
May has furnished the
annual sanitary report.
II. Location and movements.—
The head-quarters remained at
Dera Ismail Khan the whole
year. A wing marched for Dera
Ghazi Khan in April, to relieve
the 1st Punjab Infantry ordered
to Quetta. The outposts of Zam,
Girni, Manjee, Draband from
head-quarters, and Mungrota
from the detachment at Dera
Ghazi Khan, have been garri-
soned during the year.
The information given
under the usual heads in-
dicate that the sanitary con-
Epidemics.
Special observ-
ations and
remarks.
Medical
officer.
Location and
movements.
Sanitary
conditions.