Amusements.
Hospital.
Deaths.
Epidemics.
Vaccination.
Recruiting.
Chest mea
-surements.
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OUDH DIVISION.
XII. Exercises, amusements and occupations.—The men are encouraged to practise tent
-pegging and other games, and on February 3rd they took a prominent and successful part in
the brigade cavalry sports at Lucknow, competing with the 2nd and 19th B. C.
XIV. Hospital—The hospital was described in last year's report. Bathing accommo-
dation has been afforded in accordance with the orders of the Commander-in-Chief. Quarters
for the hospital assistants and native medical pupils have been "budgeted" for by the
Executive Engineer, and the site fixed by the standing station barrack committee.
XV. Sickness, mortality and invaliding.— Strength of the regiment—present, 399.1;
absent, 54.5; total, 453.6.
Sickness, mor
-tality and
invaliding.
STATION.
PERIOD.
Strength.
TOTAL NUM-
BER 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 AN-
NUM.
From
To
Admis-
sions.
D e a t h s .
A d m i s - s i o n s .
D e a t h s . Dai l y average si ck.
Head quarters at Sitapur . . . 1st January
1874.
31st Decem-
ber 1874.
349 .7
232
2
9.3
66.4
. 5
2.6
Detachment at Fyzabad
. . .
Ditto
. . .
3rd April
1874.
137
20
. . .
3.5 57.3
. . .
2.5
399.1
252
2 10.2 63.1
. 5 0 2.5
Number of deaths in hospital, 2; out of hospital, 0; total, 2; per cent of total strength .44
" invalided,
.
.
.
6;
"
"
1.3
" sent on sick leave, . . . 4; "
. . .
.8
"
days spent in hospital, 3,731; per admission,
14.8; per man "
8.2
" on si ck leave, 639; per man, 159.7; " " . . .
1.4
Total temporary loss of service per man of total strength . . . 9.6
XVI. Principal causes of sickness.— The general health of the regiment has been re
-markably good throughout the year. Total admissions were 252 as compared with 307 for 1873.
Fevers of a quotidian type, including 2 cases of tertian fever, gave only 53 admissions, being
31 less than in the previous year, thus realizing anticipations expressed in last year's report that
the men would lose their "malarious tendency," acquired in Bundelkund, by a longer residence
in the healthy climate of Sitapur. Although the rainfall greatly exceeded that of 1873, there
has been a diminution instead of an increase of fever, and this strengthens the fact of the
salubrity of the station. Dysentery caused only 10 admissions against 23 in 1873; conjuncti-
vitis, , 19 against 27; rheumatism, acute and chronic 18 admissions; venereal affections, 14.
Contusions and accidents of various kinds so common in cavalry regiments have given nearly
one-fourth of the total admissions.
XVII. Principal causes of mortality.—Two deaths occurred in hospital at Sitapur, 1
from pneumonia and 1 from pleurisy.
Prevalent
diseases,
Fevers.
XVIII. Epidemics.— There has been no epidemic in the station during the year.
XIX. Vaccination.— Seven recruits, and all the children of the men and camp followers
not previously protected, have been successfully vaccinated.
XX. Recruting—Twenty two recruits have been entertained during the year, whose
average chest measurement amounted to 33.5 inches. I have appended a table in which the
facts are detailed, and I have not departed from the fixed standard proposed in last year's report.
CASTE.
N u m b e r e x a m i n e d .
A g e 1 8 t o 2 4 y e a r s . h e i g h t 5 f e e t 2 ½ t o 8 i n c h e s , a v e r a g e c h e s t m e a s u r e m e n t .
N u m b e r e x a m i n e d .
A g e 1 8 t o 2 4 y e a r s h e i g h t 5 f e e t 9 i n - c h e s a n d u p w a r d s a v e r a g e c h e s t me a s u r e me n t .
TOTAL.
REMARKS..
Number
examined.
Average chest
measurement.
Sikhs . . .
14
33.1
6
3 4 .
20
33.5
The recruits were
all subjected to an
examination by
means of ophthal
-mic tests.
Hindoos . . .
2
33.5
. . .
. . .
2
33.5
TOTAL
. . .
16
6 6 . 6
6
3 4 .
2 2
67
Deputy Surgeon-General H. M. Cannon, M.B., states in his inspection re-
port that the hospital is a fine building, provided with a good bath-room, latrines
Inspection.