Detachment.
Lines.
Drainage.
Conservancy.
Principal
causes of
sickness.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Inspection.
Lines.
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GWALIOR DISTRICT.
GWALIOR DISTRICT.
[INCLUDING MORAR AND JHANSI.]
Average strength present during the year . . .
Cavalry 360.1 . . . Infantry . . . 1889.3
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength . . .
"
3.1. . .
" . . .
4.0
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength . . .
"
. 8 . . .
. . .
1.3
6th Regiment Bengal Cabalry—Morar.
Surgeon-Major G. Barnard has been in charge the entire year, and writes
the report.
Medical
officer.
There is only one detach-
meat-25 Sabres—at Sipri.
The lines are in the same
condition as in last year's
report.
The drainage, natural and
artificial, is good. The
" trench system" of latrine
is in use in the regiment,
and the men resort to them.
The water-supply is abun
-
dant and wholesome. Cloth
-
ing is good. Duty consisted
of ordinary garrison duty. Average number of nights in bed = 5 in 6.
XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.—Strength of the Regiment—present 360.1 ; absent
96.8 ; total 456.9.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1869 . . .
Cawnpore, December 1867
from Sialkot . . .
102.8
. 6 1.8
1870 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
126.
. 4 3.8
1871 . . .
Ditto
ditto. . . 78.9
. 4 2.5
1872 . . . Morar, February 1872 . . .
68.2
1.1
2.8
1873 . . .
Ditto
ditto . . .
99.1
. 2 3.7
95
. 5 2.9
1874 . . .
Morar . . .
118.2
. 8 7 3.11
Water, &c.
Sickness,
mortality, and invaliding.
PERIOD
TOTAL
NUMBER 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 ANNUM.
From
To
S t r e n g t h .
A d m i s s i o n s .
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 at Morar . . .
lst Jany.
1874 . . .
31st Dec.
1874
. . . 360.13 426
2
11.20 118.29
.55
3.11
Number of deaths in hospital, 2 ; out of hospital, 2; total, 4; per cent, of total strength . . .
.87
"
invalided, 27 per cent. of total strength . . .
5.91
Sent on sick leave, 18; per cent. of total strength . . .
3.94
Number of days spent in hospital, 4,125 ; per admissions, 9.68 ; per man of total strength . . .
9.03
" of days spent on sick leave, 2,280 ; per man, 126.6 ; per man of total strength . . .
4.99
T o t a l t e m p o r a r y l o s s o f
s e r v i c e p e r m a n
o f
t o t a l s t r e n g t h . . .
14.02
Two men died of phthisis ; one man, a Pathan, died of ague in April ; he was a great
opium-smoker and very debilitated, and one Hindoo recruit died in September of ague, having
been very ill for two or three days before he came to hospital. The large number of invalids
is owing to old soldiers enlisted in the mutiny.
Nearly all the sickness is of malarial origin.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—Malarious diseases, agues, dysenteries, neuralgias.
XVIII. Epidemics.—There were no epidemics.
Vaccination.—Every man in the regiment is either vaccinated, inoculated, or has had
small-pox.
Deputy Surgeon-General E. C. Thorp, M. D., inspected this regiment on the
17th February 1875. The situation of the lines is a bad one, but in October
next they will be given up ; the sanitary condition of the lines, as regards
cleanliness and drainage, was very good, and in the huts each man had. 102
superficial and 612 cubic feet.
Deaths.
The trench system is in use, and answers fairly well; the water-supply is
abundant and of good quality.