LAHORE DIVISION.
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Duties.
Exercise,
Trees.
Sickness, mor-
-tality and in-
validing.
LAHORE DIVISION.
(INCLUDING THE STATIONS OF MEEAN MEER, FEROZEPORE, MOOLTAN, DHARMSALA, AND BAKLOH.)
Average strength present during the year . . .
Cavalry . . . 747.2 Infantry . . . 3,710.6
Average daily sick per cent. of average strength . . .
" . . .
5.28
" . .
.
3.82
Ratio of mortality per cent. of average strength . . .
" . . .
1.30
" . . .
.92
11t h Be nga l Ca ba l r y ( La nc e r s ) . —Me e a n Me e r .
Surgeon Woodforde Finden, in medical charge, reports:—
II. Location and movements.
— T h e r e g i m e n t h a s o c c u p i e d t h e
cavalry lines at Meean Meer
throughout the year. A detach-
-ment of one native officer and 24
men has been kept at Ferozepore
for duty, the detachment being
relieved twice in the year, in
April and October.
Mr. Finden reports that
the sanitary improvements
of the lines proposed last
year have been carried out.
Trees have also been plant-
ed. The lines are now "as
good as native cavalry lines
could be wished." The drainage is still considered defective, but the latrine
system described in last report works well. Canal water has been conducted
into the lines and to the hospital by cuttings ; it is proposed to fill the wells,
the water of which is slightly brackish, with it once a week.
YEAR.
STATION.
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH.
Admissions.
Daily sick.
Deaths.
1869 . . . Allahabad, December
1868, from Umballa.
55.1
.2
2.1
1 8 7 0 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
89.2
1.
3.2
1871 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
60
1.5
2.3
1872 . . . Meean Meer, October
1872.
62.5
.8
1.5
1873 . . .
Ditto ditto . . .
228.8
.4
5.4
Average . . .
. . .
99.1
.8
2.9
1874 . . . Meean Meer . . .
99.4
1.5
2 8
Location.
Detachment.
Lines.
Trees.
Drainage.
Latrines.
Water
An experiment was tried during the last year, though I believe it is a custom in force
in many native cities, viz., of filling up a well during the winter with water from the canal,
then, when full, closing up the month of the well, so as to exclude the outside air. The well is
then left until the hot weather ; when opened, the water will be found to be quite cold and
will remain so during the hot months. This plan was adopted with us last year and was very
successful.
The men live well ; the duties have been moderate (continuous nights in
bed 6) ; the usual cavalry exercises are practised and some of the men
are fond of sport. Trees have been planted around the hospital for the pur-
-pose of shade.
XV. Sickness, mortality, and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—present, 361.16 ;
absent, 101.59 ; total, 462.75.
An experi-
ment.
S t r e n g t h .
TOTAL
NUMBER. OF
D a i l y a v e r a g e s i c k .
PER CENT. OF STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
Admis-
sions. Deaths.
Deaths.
Daily
average
sick.
Admis-
sions.
Head-quarters Meean Meer . . .
337
357
6
10.26 105.93
1.78
3.04
Detachment, Ferozepore . . .
24
2
. . .
. . .
83
. . .
. . .
TOTAL . . .
3 6 1
359
6
10.26
99.44
1.66
2.85
Number of deaths in hospital, 6 ; out of hospital, 1; total 7 ; per cent. of total strength . . . 1.51
" invalided . . . 3 ; " " " . . .
. 6 4
"sent on sick leave, . . .8 ; " " " . . .
1.73
" of days spent in hospital, 37.47 ; per admission, 10.4 ; per man " " . . .
8.09
"" " " on sick leave, 760 ; per man, 95 """ . . .
1.64
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . .
9.73
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.—The principal causes of sickness have been
intermittent fever, 170 admissions ; ulcers, 20 admissions ; bronchitis, 18 admissions ; abscess,
17 admissions.
The regiment has improved very much in health during the year ; and, though the rate of
sickness is very high for this regiment, yet the number of admissions compare favorably
with the admissions in 1873.
Prevalent
diseases.