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SIRHIND DIVISION.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
Daily
average
number
of sick.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
From
To.
Admis-
sion.
Deaths.
Admis-
sions. Deaths,
Daily
average
sick.
Head-quarters at Camp Delhie 1st Jan. 1877 28th Jan. 1877 524.42
39
. . .
16.14 96.94
. . .
3.07
Ditto
on march from
Delhi to Simla.
29th Jan. 1877 8th,Mar. 1877 472.56
31
. . . 12.28 61.40
. . .
2.59
Head-quarters at camp Simla 9th Mar. 1877 30th Nov. 1877 345.73
268
. . .
10.69 105.97
. . .
3.09
Ditto
on march from
Simla to Amritsar.
1st Dec. 1877 23rd Dec. 1877 441.17
28
...
16.82 100.72 ...
3.81
Head-quarters at Amritsar 24th Dec. 1877 31st Dec. 1877 630.87
17
...
21.25 122.94
. . .
3.36
Detachment at Meean Meer
1st Jan. 1877 14th Mar. 1877 136.90
28
1
6.36 102.26 3.65 4.64
Ditto
on march from
Umballa to Amritsar.
1st Mar. 1877 16th Mar. 1877 124.00
5
. . .
6.75
91.98
. . .
5.44
Detachment at Amritsar
. 15th Mar. 1877 23rd Dec. 1877 205.04
213
”
7.20 133.41
”
3 . 5 1
Ditto
at Mushobra . llth Aug. 1877 16th Nov. 1877 188.55
44
1
3.11
86.91 1.97
1 . 6 4
Ditto
at Simla
. 1st Dec. 1877 31st Dec. 1877
71.00
10
. . .
2.67 165.83
. . .
3.76
Total
.
.
. . .
...
632.94
683
2
20.12 107.91 .31
3.17
Number of deaths in hospital, 2; out of hospital, 2; total
4; per cent. of total strength
.
0.58
„
invalided
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
28;
,,
,,
.
.
4.06
„
sent on sick leave .
.
.
.
.
.
5 ;
”
,,
.
.
0.72
„
of days spent in hospital, 7,346; per.
10.75; per man of total strength .
.
10.66
” ”
on sick leave, 515; per man
.
103;
”
”
.
.
0.74
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
.
. 11.41
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.-There was much less sickness in the regiment in
1877 than in 1876. In 1876 the total number of cases treated was 1,060; during the past
year the total number was 715. Malarious fevers produced the greatest number of cases, 292 in
all. The cases generally were of a milder character than those which prevailed in the autumn
of 1876, and no case terminated fatally. Injuries were next in order of frequency; 154 cases
were treated; most of the injuries were received when the men were at work, and were generally
caused by slight landslips, rolling stones, &c.; they were generally slight. Twenty-six cases of
blisters of the feet were treated; most of the cases occurred on the march from Simla. The
men started from Simla wearing ammunition boots. The first four marches were long, averaging
15 miles each, and were down hill nearly all way, thus great pressure was produced on the feet,
many of which had been made tender by bruises. Seventy-one cases of disease of the organs
of respiration occurred; most were bronchial affections, but there were 7 cases of pneumonia,
one of which proved fatal in the detachment at Mushobra. There were 49 cases of dysentery;
these were mostly mild, and all recovered. There were only 6 cases of diarrhœa. There were
11 cases of primary, and 9 of secondary syphilis. In the previous year 24 cases of primary
syphilis were treated. Only 12 cases of eye affections were treated; 14 cases of. rheumatism
occurred, two of which were acute, and both severe. Other varieties of disease do not call for
special remark. 1877 was a healthy year in the Punjab, and places which were fever-
stricken when the regiment marched through them in 1876 were unusually healthy in 1877.
• XVII. Principal causes of mortality.- Four deaths occurred during the year, one from
cancer of the penis at Meean Meer; the man had been operated on some months previously,
but the disease returned, and he died from exhaustion. One man was found dead in a well at
Umballa; he is supposed to have committed suicide; one man died from phthisis when on sick
leave, and a man died from pneumonia in the detachment hospital at Mushobra.
XVIII. Epidemics.—None.
XIX. Vaccination,—The regiment is well protected by vaccination, and no case of small-
pox has occurred amongst men, camp-followers, or women and children, though it now prevails
in an epidemic form in the city of Amritsar. The return of the numbers vaccinated will be
furnished on the 1st of April.
Inspection.—The regiment was inspected at Amritsar by Deputy Surgeon-
General G. H. Ray,M.D . ,
o n t h e 1 6 t h F e b r u a r y 1 8 7 8 . T h e m e n w e r e i n t e n t s ,
and the sick treated in the small hospital. All the medical equipment,
medicines and instruments were in sufficient quantity and in satisfactory order.
The sanitary condition of the camp was good.
Principal,
causes of
sickness.
Fevers,
Injuries.
Blistered feet.
Chest diseases.
Venereal
complaints.
Principal
causes of
mortality.
Epidemics,
Vaccination.
Inspection.
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