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CHAPTER IV.
STATIONS.
I will now, as briefly as possible, notice those sanitary defects in each station
of the Bombay Presidency which appear to me to be the most prominent.
Table VI. shows the average aggregate strength, the admission rate per 1,000
of strength from all fevers except enteric, and the deaths from the chief diseases
in the 10 years ending 31st December 1881, together with the death-rate per
1,000 of strength from each of these diseases.
Table VI.
Stations.
Karáchi and Ghizree
Hyderabad
Bombay
Colába Depôt
Baroda (1876 to 1881)
Ahmedabad (including Baroda up
to 1875).
Deesa
Mount Abu
Tárágarh
Nasirabad
..
..
Neemuch
Indore
Mhow
Assirgarh
Devláli (1879 and 1880)
Devláli Depôt
Poona and Kirkee
Purandhar
Khandála Depôt
Sátára
Belgaum
Aden ..
..
—
Southern Afghanistan (1880)
Troops marching
Average Strength for 10 years.
8,077
3,860
5,277
360
1,204
2,591
6,138
936
336
6,213
4,306
913
13,007
863
184
1,083
4,066
20,087
923
327
1,640
9,240
7,420
423
2,560
102,034
Admission Rate per 1,000 of
Strength, from all Fevers
except Enteric Fever for 10
years.
944.5
858.3
1,001.9
383.3
1,576.4
905.4
595.6
1,160.3
842.3
704.8
1,344.4
732.7
757.5
910.8
1,239.1
526.3
481.6
675.6
691.2
746.2
473.2
383.0
334.6
978.7
341.0
TOTAL DEATHS IN 10
YEARS.
Cholera.
2
..
2
13
3
1
13
55
8
9
..
4
41
2
1
1
5
160
Enteric Fever.
47
7
3
3
9
11
4
30
11
1
37
1
4
36
2
2
9
4
10
1
232
Intermittent Fever.
3
..
2
1
3
2
3
1
15
Remittent Fever.
6
2
5
2
1
3
5
,.
10
6
3
6
2
2
4
7
1
1
4
1
10
4
85
Continued Fever.
3
1
1
2
1
..
1
..
..
2
11
Dysentery.
22
8
12
1
1
4
2
1
10
7
5
1
10
20
1
1
2
11
17
3
139
Diarrhœa.
1
1
1
2
1
..
..
1
1
6
..
..
1
18
1
34
RATIO PER 1,000 OF STRENGTH.
Cholera.
0.2
1.6
5.0
0.5
3.0
2.1
12.8
8.9
0.7
..
1.0
2.0
6.1
0.1
0.1
2.0
1.6
Enteric Fever.
5.8
1.8
0.6
2.5
3.5
1.8
11.9
4.8
2.6
1.1
2.8
1.2
1.0
1.8
3.2
..
1.2
1.0
0.5
23.6
0.4
2.3
Intermittent Fever.
..
0.6
..
0.3
0.2
0.2
1.8
0.1
..
0.6
0.1
Remittent Fever.
0.7
0.5
0.9
5.6
0.8
1.2
0.8
1.6
1.4
3.3
0.5
2.3
1.8
1.0
0.3
1.1
3.1
..
0.4
0.1
23.6
1.6
0.8
Continued Fever.
0.4
..
0.2
2.8
0.8
0.2
0.1
.,
..
..
0.3
0.1
Dysentery.
2.7
..
1.5
333
0.8
0.4
0.6
2.1
3.0
1.6
1.6
..
0.4
0.9
2.4
1.0
1.1
0.6
0.2
1.5
40.2
1.1
1.3
Diarrhœa.
0.1
0.2
2.8
..
5.9
0.1
..
01
0.2
0 3
..
..
0.1
42.5
0.4
0.3
The figures given in the above table represent the station as the unit, but it
is evident, before any just conclusions can be drawn as to its sanitary condition,
that the disease statistics of each of the lines in it should be considered separately,
so that if disease has attacked the men occupying one particular set of barracks
with greater severity than other corps in the station, it will at once attract atten-
tion. In other words, disease must be localized before its causes can be satis-
factorily accounted for.
For example, at Nasirabad it appears that 30 deaths have taken place from
enteric fever during the 10 years, the death-rate from this disease being the
highest but one in the Presidency for these 10 years. When you come to analyse
these figures as in Table VII. showing the admissions and deaths from enteric
fever in each arm in each of the 10 years in each station it will be seen that
28 of these deaths and 40 admissions took place among the Infantry, whereas
during the same period there were only 3 admissions and 2 deaths among the
men of the Royal Artillery. The disease, therefore, is localized to the Infantry
Lines.
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