Principal
causes of
sickness.
Reasons why
N o w s h e r a i s
not malarious.
Lock-hospital.
Epidemics.
Inspection.
PESHAWAR DISTRICT.
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XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding .—Strength of the regiment.—
Present .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
3 5 0 . 6 1
Absent
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1 0 6 . 7 2
Total
. .
.
457.33
Sickness,
mortality and
invaliding.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number of
sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
STATION.
From
To
Admis-
sions.
Deaths.
Admis-
sions.
Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters, Nowshera. . 1st Jan. 1877 1st Nov. 1877
247
288
1
11.23 139.51
. 2 4 4.54
Ditto Camp Jallazaie . 2nd Nov.
„
30th ,,
,,
203.65
6
...
3.55
37.07
...
1.74
Ditto Nowshera
. 1st Dec
„
31st Dce.
„
257.61
17
...
.72
77.69
...
.27
Detachment, Fort Abazai
. 7th April
„
31st „
„
50
37
...
.59 100.02
...
1.18
Ditto
Mackeson
. 1st Jan.
„
5th Nov.
„
53.22
47
...
.68 103.94
...
1.27
Ditto Nowshera
. 1st Nov.
„
1st Dec.
„
105.33
3
...
1 . 1 0
3 4 . 6 5
...
1 . 0 4
Ditto Shumshuttoo
. 4th „
„
30th Nov.
„
11.5
...
... ...
...
...
...
Ditto Peshawar
. 26th „
„
31st Dec.
„
84.33
1
...
27
11.99
...
.32
Total
.
.
...
...
350.61
399
1
12.66 113.80
.28
3.61
Number of deaths in hospital, 1; out of hospital, 0; total
1 ; per cent. of total strength
.
.21
„
invalided
.
.
.
.
.
14;
„ „
.
3.0
„
sent on sick leave
.
.
.
.
.
.
6;
„
„
.
1.31
„
of days spent in hospital,
4,621 ; per admission
11.58; per man of total strength
.
10.10
„
„
on sick leave 1,065; per man
.
177.50;
„
„
.
2.33
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
12.43
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.- Fevers , as usual, form the largest number of admis-
sions 145; contusions 59; dysentery 28; chest affections 20; syphilis only 4. There has been
very little sickness during the year. Nowshera has many disadvantages in a social point of
view, but a clean health sheet is a great desideratum. One would be led to suppose from
the great variation in temperature between the hot and cold weather, and the variation' even in a
single day, that malarious fevers would prevail here ; but the other conditions, viz., water and
vegetable decomposition necessary to its generation, are Wanting, and Nowshera enjoys an
immunity from fevers which unhappily does not exist in any other part of the valley. There
are no marshes. There generally is some perceptible movement of the air. The water is
abundant and good ; the soil is sandy and porous and without organic matter. There is no
water in subterraneous streams near the surface, very little evaporation, no over-crowding, and
consequently there is very little malaria. There has been only one death during the year, a
weak man who succumbed very quickly to pneumonia. Some cases of fever did occur in the
beginning and the end of the hot weather, owing to the sudden climatic changes, but they
were generally of a mild type and of short duration. A lock-hospital is kept up here, and
venereal diseases have been reduced considerably.
There have been no epidemics during the year.
Inspection.— This regiment was medically inspected by Deputy Surgeon-
General F. F. Allen, C.B., on the 9th of October 1877. The station has im-
proved much in appearance of late years and is now fairly wooded. The
cyclone of July had done much damage, however. The lines of the XIth Regi-
ment were in good sanitary condition, and the hospital in excellent order. The
men were healthy. There were only 14. in. hospital.
27th (Punjab) Regiment, Aatibe Infantry-Nowshera.
I. Medical Officer.—The
annual report is written by Surgeon-Major
W. S. Caldwell.
II. Location and movements.—
The head-quarters of the regi-
ment were at Nowshera from the
1st January to 1st November ;
in camp at Dilzai, in the plain
below Cherat, from the 2nd to 29th
November ; and subsequently with
the force under General Ross,
C . B . , i n t h e J o w a k i e x p e d i t i o n .
The distribution of the detach-
ments was as follows :—first, at
Abazai, from 3rd January to
9th November; second, at Shum-
shuttoo, from 29th September
to 30th November ; third, depôt
at Nowshera, 2nd November to
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1872
.
Barrackpore, April 1872
.
246.9
1.7
8.3
1873
.
Ditto
.
81.3
2.8
2.9
1874
.
Nowshera, Feb. 1874 .
144.2
2.9
5.08
1875
.
Ditto
.
127.97
1.85
3.54
1876
. Nowshera
.
.
117.67
.98
2.87
Average
.
.
143.60
2.04
4.53
1877
. No Nowshera . .
.
128.74
.28
2.79
Medical Offi-
cer.
Location and
movements.
Detachments.
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