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RAWAL PINDI DIVISION.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF RAWAL PINDI, JHELUM, SIALKOT AND TALAGANG.)
Average strength present during the year . . . Cavalry 1,161.1 Infantry 3,696.2
Average daily sick per cent of the average strength . . .
"
3.9
"
2.3
Ratio of mortality per cent of the average strength . . .
"
.81
"
1.2
14th Benga; Cavalry( Lancers)—
Rawal Pindi.
Surgeon-Major B. Kendall held charge of the regiment during the whole
year.
Medical
charge.
The regiment left the
camp of exercise near Roor
-kee on the 6th January
and marched to Rawal
Pindi, reaching that place
on the 26th February, reliev
-ing the 9th Bengal Cavalry.
Location and
movements.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1869 Meerut,Dec.1866,
from Cawnpore . . . 160.6
1.2
4.1
1870 D e o l i , D e c . 1 8 6 9 . . .
228
1.2
8.4
1871
Ditto ditto . . . 134.2
1
5 . 1
1872
Ditto ditto . . . 156.5
1
5.8
1873
Ditto ditto . . . 170.4
. 8 6.2
Average . . .
. . .
169.9
1.04
5.9
1874 Rawal Pindi Jan. 1874 117.16
1.10
4.4
Drainage and
conservancy.
Food and
water.
Clothing.
Duties.
Hospital.
Mr. Kendall considers
the lines deficient in venti
-lation, but they were not
overcrowded, and the defect
did not tell on the health of
the men. The drainage and
conservancy are satisfactory,
and the men were well off in
regard to food and water. Milk is, however, expensive and inferior at Rawal
Pindi.
The men were provided with postheens and additional bedding. The dut i e s
are light (nights in bed 9) but the regiment underwent considerable exposure
and fatigue on the march. The hospital is an excellent one and warmed in
winter. There is a latrine and bath-room at each end of it.
Sickness,
mortality and.
invaliding.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding .—Strength of the regiment—present 384.67;
absent 68.03; total 452.70.
STATION.
PERIOD.
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 AN-
NUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
A d m i s - s i o n s . D e a t h s .
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k .
Head-quarters atRawal
Pindi . . . 1st Jan.
31st Dec. 384.67 451
4 17.16 117.24 1.03 4.46
Number of deaths in hospital, 4; out of hospital, 1; total, 5; per cent. of total strength . . . 1.10
" i n v a l i d e d , 1 6 ; " " " . . . 3.53
" s e n t o n s i c k l e a v e , 4 ; " " " . . .
"
.88
" of days spent in hospital, 6,088; per admission, 13.49; per man " " " . . . 13. 44
" on si ck l eave, 485; per man, 161. 66; " " " " . . .
1.07
Total temporary loss of service . . . 6,573;" " " " . . . 14. 51
The sickness compares favorably with that of past years. There was less
fever, but more digestive and respiratory disease owing to the march and high
range of temperature. The men still suffer from the unfavorable influences to
which they were subjected at Deoli, Sambhur and Jhansi, but have improved in
health since arrival in Rawal Pindi, which Mr. Kendall considers one of the
healthiest stations in India.
XV11. Mortality .—The mortality is slightly in excess of last year, due to accidental
causes. Five deaths occurred during the year, viz., one from pleurisy caused by damp and ex
-posure on the march up; a second death occurred from poisoning by bichloride of mercury,
which had been administered to him by a friend for the cure of syphilis under which he was
suffering; the third. death occurred from peritonitis caused by the bursting of an abscess into
the cavity of the peritoneum; the fourth died from pericarditis combined with extensive val
-vular disease of the heart, and the fifth died from chronic dysentery and secondary abscess of
the liver.
Health of the
corps.
Deaths.
No epidemic occurred. Twenty-four recruits were vaccinated, but without
success on account of previous protection. A large number of children were
successfully vaccinated.
Epidemics
Vaccination.
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