Chapter I.] GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE ARMY FOR THE SIX YEARS. 15
The characteristic distinction is maintained in the Invaliding of Madras; out of each 100
cases invalided, 32 were attributed to dysentery or liver affection, against 20 in Bengal and 18
in Bombay. On the average of the six years 1871-76, 100 cases of invaliding from the Three
Presidencies were constituted thus:—
M a d r a s .
Bengal.
Bombay.
Dysentery
1 4 3 2
5 2 0
4 1 8
Hepatitis
18
15
14
General debility
18
20
26
Spleen disease.
1
1
Fevers
2
4
8
Respiratory diseases
2
4
3
Heart disease
6
7
4
Palpitation
4
6
3
Epilepsy and brain affections
3
3
3
Mental affections
2
3
3
Phthisis
9
9
7
R h e u m a t i s m
4
6
4
Syphilis
6
4
4
All other causes
12
13
16
All causes
1 0 0
1 0 0
1 0 0
Dysentery and hepatitis cause an increase in the invaliding-rate of Madras, as compared
with that of Bengal and Bombay, of 6 per 1,000, the averages being for Madras 45 . 71, for
Bengal 39 . 87, and for Bombay 39 . 25: dysentery gives in Madras an annual loss per 1,000 of
6.58, in Bengal 1 . 79, and in Bombay 1.56; and hepatitis and dysentery, taken together, 14.56,
7 . 96, and 6 . 89 in the Three Presidencies respectively. The ratios for fever and spleen affections
fall to a minimum, as in the case of the admission-rate for these diseases, and the relative liability
to invaliding is less than one-third in the case of the Army of Madras.
The extent of invaliding in the Three Presidencies is contrasted in this statement,
which exhibits also the ratio contributed by the chief causes on account of which the soldier
is sent home sick from India:
Aggregate of the average annnal strengths of the six years, 1871-76.
Army of Bengal.
Army of Bombay.
Army of Madras.
219,290
63,279
67,451
Invaliding rates, and the Ratio of _Liability to the Chief C a u s e s o f I n v a l i d i n g c o n t r a s t e d i n t h e
Three Presidencies, on the results of 1871-76.
C A U S E S O F I N V A L I D I N G .
N U M B E R O F C A S E S
O F I N V A L I D I N G
I N V A L I D I N G R A T E
P E R 1 , 0 0 0 .
R A T I O O F L I A B I L I T Y .
B e n g a l .
B o m b a y .
M a d r a s .
B e n g a l .
B o m b a y .
M a d r a s . B e n g a l .
B o m b a y .
M a d r a s . T o t a l =
1 0 0 .
F e v e r s
334 189
44 1.52 2.99
. 6 5 29.46 57.95 12.59 100
Phthisis pulmonalis
809 174 273 3.69 2.75 4.05 35.18 26.21 38.61 100
Rheumatism
506 110 125 2.31 1.74 1.85 39.15 29.49 31.36 100
Syphilis
320 112 191 1.46 1.77 2.83 24.09 29.21 46.70 100
Epilepsy and brain affections
276
77 106 1.25 1.22 1.57 30.94 30.20 38.86 100
Mental affections
272
69
70 1. 25 1.09 1.04 36.98 32. 25 30.77 100
Heart disease
619
88 170 2.82 1.39 2.52 41.90 20.66 37.44 100
Palpitation
527
80 114 2.40 1.26 1.69 44.86 23.55 31.59 100
R e s p i r a t o r y d i s e a s e s 331
75
68 1.51 1.18 1.01 40.81 31.89 27.30 100
D y s e n t e r y
392
99 414 1.79 1.56 6.58 18.03 15.71 66.26 100
Hepatitis
1,354 337 538 6.17 5.33 7'98 31.67 27.36 40.97 100
Spleen disease
100
28
10
.46
. 4 4
. 1 5 43.81 41.90 14. 29 100
General debility
1,790 658 558 8.16 10.40 8.27 30.41 38.76 30.83 100
All other causes
1,114 388 372 5 .08
6. 13 5.52 30.36 36.64 33.00 100
All causes
8,744 2,484 3,083 39.87 39.25 45.71 31.94 31.44 36.62 1 0 0