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RAWAL PINDI DIVISION.
regiment was in other respects satisfactory. The hospital equipment was com
-plete, and the arrangement for the treatment of the sick all that could be desired.
21st. (Punjab) Regiment
Native Infantry—Rawal Pindi.
Surgeon W. A. C. Roe, in medical charge, reports that the Regiment
marched from Peshawar on
the 4th March in course of
annual relief to Rawal
Pindi, and arived in that
station on the 14th March.
Detachments were given
during the year to Shab
-kadar, Attock, and Murree.
Surgeon Roe describes the
season as unusually cool
owing to an unwontedly
heavy rainfall. The lines
occupied were those vacate
d b y t h e 2 5 t h N a t i v e I n f a n t r y .
They are well shaded and drained. The sanitary conditions of the corps were
favorable; conservancy is carefully attended to; water is apt to get scanty in
the dry weather, but is good. Food supplies were abundant, and the men are
well nourished. Duties were light. Nights in bed 6-7.
Year.
Station.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions. Deaths.
Daily sick.
1869 . . . Mean Meer . . .
251.3
1.3
7.4
1870 . . . Peshawar, Nov. 1870 . . .
161.5
5.8
5.8
1871 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
146.9
2.8
3.
1872 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
87.6
2.
2 .
1873 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
100.9
4.
2.5
Average . . .
. . .
149.6
3.2
4.1
1874 . . . Rawal Pindi . . .
75.6
2.9
2.5
Location and
movements.
Meteorology.
Lines.
Sanitary
conditions.
The hospital , which is a new one, is thus described:—
Hospital.
It is a long building, divided into two, wards, with pucka floors, each capable of contain
-ing 50 men without the least overcrowding, and, if necessity required, it might accommodate 20
more easily. The wards are very well ventilated, and there are two fire-places in each—in fact it
is very much superior to most of the hospitals for native troops that I have seen, and is in every
way sufficient and suitable for the wants of a native regiment. There are two detached wards,
capable of containing from 6 to 8 beds each, which are intended as separate wards in case of
infectious disease; these are situated about 30 yards from the main building, and I have found
them most useful in many ways, especially if I wanted quietness and separation for any
particular case. The houses for the hospital assistants and servants are very good.
The building is not in any way shut in or enclosed: the drainage from it is good; it is in
very good repair. There are three small rooms and a good bath-room attached to it; these rooms
are used as office, dispensary, and godown; and they are each and all suitable for the purpose.
The clothing of the men in hospital is the same as before reported upon. Under regimental
arrangements, there is a sufficiency of rezaies, sheets, warm coats, &c., and no patient at any time
is allowed to be in want of clothing. If he has not a proper supply (and recruits seldom at first
have), he is always supplied from the hospital till such time as arrangements can be made for the
man to have his own clothes, and some such system as this is, I believe, adopted by most regi
-ments in this part of the country; in fact, it is an absolute necessity in a place where the
climate (for at least 4 months out of the year) is so severe, and in hospital management and the
treatment, it is, I am firmly convinced, of as much or more importance than the actual medicinal
treatment.
XV. Sickness , mortality and invaliding .— Strength of the regiment—present 595.99;
absent 88.48;—total 684.47.
P E R I O D .
Strength.
TOTAL NUM-
BER OF
D a i l y a v e r a g e N u mb e r o f s i c k .
PER CENT. OF
STRENGTH PER
ANNUM.
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 n u m b e r o f s i c k .
Head-quarters at Rawal
Pindi and Peshawar . . .
1st Jan. . . .
31st Dec. . . . 534.79
417
7 14.55
77.9
1.3
2.7
Detachment, Attock . . .
10th Mar. . . . 27th May . . . 171.58
18
1
2.13
48.4
2.6
1.2
Ditto Shabkadar . . .
3rd Jan. . . . 5th Feb. . . .
88.8
7
3
1.1
84.8
3.7
1.2
Ditto Murree . . .
13th Apl. . . .
16th July . . .
5.7
9
. . .
. 7 0 39.6
. . .
1.2
TOTAL . . .
. . .
. . .
595.99
451
11 15.3 3
75.6
1 . 8
2.5
Number of deaths in hospital, 11; out of hospital, 9; total 20; per cent. of total strength . . .
2.9
" i n v a l i d e d , . 2 0 ; " " . . .
2.9
" sent on sick leave, 14; " " . . .
2.04
" of days spent in hospital, 5,281; per admission 11.7; per man " . . .
7.71
" of days spent on sick leave, 1,860; per man, 132.8; " " . . .
2.72
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 10.43
Hospital
clothing.
Sickness, mor
-tality and
invaliding.