Inspection.
Medical
charge.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1869
Kohat, March 1869,
from Abbottabad
265. 8
6.2
8.9
1870
Ditto ditto
349.2
1. 8
7. 3
1871
Abbottabad, April 1871 206.3
.6
4.4
1872
" Augt. from Looshai 175.3
3. 7
2.9
1873
Kohat, February 1873 285. 7
.6
5.1
Average.
256. 4
2. 6
5.7
1874
Kohat
239.3
.6
4.1
Location.
Sanitary cir-
cumstances.
Sickness, mor
-tality and in
- v a l i d i n g .
Principal dis
-eases. Mortality.
Eepideimics.
Vaccination.
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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF BENGAL.
Deputy Surgeon-General G. Banister reports : of this regiment as follows :—
The quarters of the Corps of Guides are permanently established at this isolated little
station, 15 miles due north of Nowshera. My inspection took place on the 26th March: the
lines were in fair order, but there had been a tendency to overcrowding in the block occupied by
the infantry, and there were serious objections to the drainage within the fort, into which the
contents of the urinals combined and lodged in holes that had fretted in the bottoms of the
pucka channels of discharge. There were 35 in hospital out of a strength. of 1,105, and the
greater number of cases were referable to periodic fever of . a mild type. The hospital, as pre
- v i o u s l y r e p o r t e d , w a s f a u l t y i n e v e r y r e s p e c t i n p o s i t i o n , a r r a n g e m e n t , s p a c e a n d v e n t i l a t i o n a n d
as it can hardly be improved by any alteration, it is very desirable that an entirely new building
should be erected in the open plain, a short distance from the entrenchment. There was no
ablution room, and it was difficult to point out where one could be fitted up.
Mr. Banister was unable, in consequence of being ordered to superintend
the medical arrangements connected with the camp of exercise at Rawal Pindi
and Peshawur, to complete his inspections of the Punjab Frontier regiments.
Peshawar Mountain Battery—Kohat—
Surgeon-Major J. W. Johnston who held the medical charge at the close
of the year reports:—
II. Location and movemen
ts.—
The head-quarters of the battery
was located at Kohat during the
year. It moved out to Meer Qual
- l i e o n 1 2 t h M a r c h f o r i n s p e c t i o n
by Brigadier General; from 26th
March to 22nd April the battery
escorted the Deputy Commis
- s i o n e r u p t h e M e r e n z a i v a l l e y ,
and proceeded to Thull from 9th
to 31st December for practice.
The sanitary circumstan
- c e s o f t h e b a t t e r y h a v e n o t
undergone any change
during the year.
V. Sickness, mortality and invaliding. —Strength of the Battery: present 137.87; absent
28.58; total 166.45.
STATION.
PERIOD.
S t r e n g t h
TOTAL NUM-
OF
D a i l y a v e r a g e n u m -
b e r o f S t r e n g t h .
PER CENT. OF
STRENGTH PER AN-
N U M .
From
To
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
D a i l y
a v e r a g e
s i c k .
Head-quarters at Kohat 1st Jany. 187431st Dec. 1874 137.87
330 1 5.78 239.3 .7 4.1
Number of deaths in hospital 1; out of hospital Nil; total 1; per cent. of total strength
. 6
" i n v a l i d e d 8 " " "
1 . 8
" s e n t o n s i c k l e a v e 1 ; " " "
. 6
" of days spent in hospital 2,110 ; per admission 6.3 ; per man of total strength 1 2 . 6
" " " o n s i c k l e a v e 6 0 ; " m a n 6 0 ; " " "
. 3
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
12.9
The principal causes of sickness were fevers, bowel complaints, and lung
diseases, but the health of the battery was better than in 1873. One man
died in hospital of pneumonia. No epidemic occurred, and no vaccination was
performed during the year.