Medical
charge.
Location.
Climate.
Drainage,
Latrine.
PUNJAB FRONTIER FORCE.
175
NO. 2 Force Fight Field Battery-Dera Ismail Khan.
Surgeon R. Power held medical charge of the battery during the year, Medical
charge.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1869 ... Edwardesabad, Decem-
ber 1868, from Kohat.
342.8
2.8
7.6
1870 ...
Ditto ditto ...
300.
2.2
6.5
1871
. . . Ditto ditto
. . . 210.7
. 9
6.6
1872 ... Dera Ismail Khan, Jan-
n a r y 1 8 7 2 .
269.3
1.8
7.5
1873 ...
Ditto ditto ...
219.5
.9
4 . 4
Average . . .
...
...
274.4
1.7
6.5
1874 ... Dera Ismail Khan ...
229.6
......
6.2
but the annual report is
furnished by Surgeon W.
Jackson, who states that
the battery was stationed
at Dera Ismail Khan.
throughout the year, with
the exception of twenty-six
days when it was in camp
at Panialah : a detach
-ment was left behind at
Dera Ismail Khan during
that period. The only cir-
-cumtance of sanitary im-
-portance was that two lat--
rines were built during the
Location.
Latrines.
year to the east of the lines ; they appearecd to answer very well.
X V.Sickness, and invaliding.- Strength of the battery―present 89.72; abseni
16.87 ; total 106.59.
STATION.
P E R I O D .
Strength.
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 ANNUM OF
F R O M
T O
Admis-sions.
D e a t h s .
Admis-sions.
Deaths.
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k .
H e a d - q u a r t e r s a t D e r a I s - m a i l K h a n .
1st Jan. ...
1st Jan. ...
1 0 t h J a n . ...
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
... ...
. . .
6th Feb. ... 31st Dec. . . . 88.49
1 9 1 ...
5 . 2 8
232.41...
5 . 9 7
Head-quarters at Panialah ... 11th Jan.
... 82.
... 5th Feb. . . .
8 2 .
1 3 ...
3 . 4 4
222.6...
4 . 1 9
Detachment at Dera Ismail khan. Ditto ...
Ditto ...
2 4 .
* 2 ...
2 . 2 8
117.46...
9 . 5 9
TOTAL
...
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 89 72 206
. . .
5 . 5 8
229.6 ...
6 . 1 2
* Four cases also transferred from head-qers.
Number of deaths in hospital, none ; out of hospital, none ; total, none ; per cent of total strength None.
, , invalided,
1 ;
, ,
, ,
...
.93
, , sent on sick leave, 2 ;
, ,
, , ... 1.87
, , of days spent in hospital, 2,040 ; per admission, 9.9 ; per man
, ,
, ,
... 19.13
, ,
, , o n s i c k l e a v e , 1 9 5 ; p e r m a n
9 7 . 5 ;
, ,
, ,
... 1.82
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength
. . .
. . .
... 20.96
Sickness, mor-
tality and in-
validing.
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.- About 50 per cent. of the total admissions were for
periodic fevers, injuries caused about 12 per cent. ; diseases of respiratory system 8 ; cuta-
-neous 7 ; and dysentery and diarrhœa 6.
Principal dis-
eases.
5th Regiment Punjab Dabatry.-Dera Ismail Khan
.
Surgeon W. Jackson, who held the officiating medical charge at the close
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths. Daily sick.
1869 ... Debra Ghazi Khan, Feb.
1869, from Rajanpur...
195.7
.4
5.2
1870 ...
Ditto
ditto . . .
251.2 .8
5.9
1871 ...
Ditto
ditto ...
1 9 1 . 9
1.4
6.
1872 ... Dera Ismail Khan, Feb.1872 ... ...
1 7 5 . 5
8.4
5.2
1873 ...
Ditto
ditto . . .
1 9 5 . 9
1.4
.6
Average ...
. . . . . .
2 0 2 .
2.5
5.8
1874 ... Dera Ismail Khan ...
200.9 1.02
7.4
of the year, reports
:—
II. Location and movements.
-The regiment has been station-
-ed at Dera Ismail Khan through-
out the year with the exception
of twenty-four days from 10th
January to 2nd February, when
it was in camp at Panialah. De-
tachments were furnished to Jutta
(including Out-posts of Girni and
Manghi) Zam (including Out-
posts of Tonk and Kirghi) and
Dera Ismail Khan during the
absence of the regiment at Pan.
inlali.
Detachments.
Mr. Jackson states that the season was unusually cool and the rainfall heavy.
This brought out the imperfections of the drainage which. have been pre-
viously noticed. A roughly built latrine to the west of the lines has been