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the increase in the number of cases of malarious fever may with excellent reason be
laid down to the extremely unhealthy conditions resulting from the unusual floods
of that year.

Jacobabad.

      13. Dr. Miller again brings forcibly to notice the insalubrity of this station,
and remarks on the wretched physical state of the
troops quartered there.

Epidemics.

      14. There has not been a single case of epidemic
disease.

Sind Boil.

      15. At Jacobabad 118 cases of Sind boil occurred as compared with 81
for the preceding year. Drs. Miller, Bartholomeusz,
and MacRury are of opinion that this disease is merely
a visible indication of a peculiar state of constitution found in the residents
of Upper Sind; and this, they think, is induced by exposure to the depressing
effects of high temperature, in a hypersaturated atmosphere, of persons suffering
from malarious cachexia.

Water.

      16. At Kurrachee an unusual rainfall, in Novem-
ber, of 2·5 inches was of essential service in filling the
tanks and wells.

Strength.

Daily Sick.

Admissions.

      17. From the figures below it will be seen that the total strength of the army
was but 69 more than that of last year. The average
daily sick, in spite of the increase recorded amongst
the Sind troops, was, on nearly the same strength, no
less than 144·6 below the average of the preceding
three years. The percentage of daily sick to strength shows a coresponding
decrease, and the total admissions are less than those of last year by 1,126, or
5,140 under the average of the previous three years.
A glance at the table will show that, while the strength
has remained almost stationary, there has been a notable and progressive annual
diminution in the number of admissions and daily sick. This seems to show
satisfactorily that the measures taken to preserve the health of the army have,
except in some of those notoriously insalubrious stations, borne year by year more
valuable fruit:—

Mortality.

      18. The total number of deaths, during the year under report, amounted
to 279 as compared with 248 for 1874; of these 213
occurred in hospital and 66 out of hospital and on
leave, the corresponding numbers for the year before being 176 and 72. In hos-
pital there is an increase of 37 deaths over those of 1874 and of 24 above the
average of the preceding three years. This greater mortality, although with a
less number of admissions, is almost entirely attributable to the epidemic of cho-
lera which prevailed amongst the troops of the Poona and Northern divisions.