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Group C.
Debility.— This caused 320 admissions and 1 death, or a ratio of 28.6 and 0.09
per 1,000. The admission rate is higher by 13.5 per 1,000, and the death rate is
fractionally lower than the corresponding ratios in the preceding year, Burma circle
contributing one-third of the total admissions.
Group D.
Rheumatism gives 354 admissions and 1 death ; tubercular diseases, 54 admis
-sions and 6 deaths ; other diseases, 110 and 2 deaths. Tubercular diseases contrast
favorably with last year, which gave 79 admissions and 9 deaths. Of these, 54
cases, 13 and 3 deaths occurred in Secunderabad ; Thayetmyo, 8 and no death ;
Bangalore, 4, no death ; Poonamallee, 7 and 1 death ; Bellary, 5, no death ;
Wellington, 3 and 1 death ; Madras, 2 and 1 death.
II. LOCAL DISEASES.
Diseases of the nervous system—occasioned 151 admissions and 8 deaths ;
nervous diseases, 128 and 7 deaths, and mental diseases, 23 and 1 death, being 11.4
of admissions and 0.62 deaths of the former disease, and 2 . 1 and 0 . 09 of the latter.
Neuralgia, 77 admissions ; epilepsy, 15 admissions and 1 death ; inflammation
of brain, 2 cases and 2 deaths ; abscess of brain, 2 cases and 2 deaths. Of the
23 cases of mental disease, melancholia gave 6 admissions and 1 death, dementia
11, hypochondriasis and mania, 3 each.
Diseases of the eye—caused 169 admissions, or 15.1 per 1,000, against 14.4 in
1885. The principal affections were conjunctivitis, 111, and iritis, 19 ; the remainder
were a few cases of other diseases which need no special mention.
Diseases of the ear and nose—gave 148 admissions, or a ratio of 13.2, against
17.2 per 1,000 in 1885.
Diseases of the circulatory system.— One hundred and twenty-two admissions
and 8 deaths are returned, being in the annual ratios of 10.9 and 0.71, against 9.6.
and 0.77 per 1,000 in the previous year. There were 79 admissions for palpitation,
23 and 6 deaths for valve disease of heart, 2 and 2 deaths for āôrtic aneurysm.
Respiratory system.— There were 356 admissions and 8 deaths under this head
as compared with 345 and 4 deaths in previous year, bronchitis giving 112 and
bronchial catarrh 171 cases ; asthma, 23 and 2 deaths ; pneumonia, 16 and 2 deaths ;
acute pneumonic phthisis, 5 and 4 deaths ; pleurisy, 12 cases. The admission rate
is 1.3 per mille lower, and the death rate 0.33 higher, than that of last year.
Digestive system.— The total admissions and deaths from these affections were
2,101 and 32, respectively ; the ratio per mille, 187.6 and 2.86. .Diarrhœa gave 650
cases and 4 deaths ; hepatitis, 301 and 14 deaths ; abscess of liver, 19 cases and
13 deaths ; congestion of liver, 78 cases and 1 death. Of other diseases, there were
475 for dyspepsia, 117 sore-throat, 72 abscess dental periosteum, 63 quinsy, 33
follicular tonsillitis, 20 hernia, colic 69, piles 76, jaundice 76. In the several
circles of medical administration, the highest ratio of admissions per mille of
strength for this class of diseases was 381.28 at the depôts, and the lowest in
Nagpore force; 91.32 ; Burma gave 256.40 ; Eastern district, 251.28 ; Hyderabad,
211.13 ; Belgaum, 165.11 ; Bangalore, 101.02.
Lymphatic glands.—There were 505 admissions, or a ratio of 45.1 per mille.
Inflammation lymphatic glands gave 383 cases ; suppuration of lymphatic glands,
88 ; inflammation of other glands, 19 ; and splenitis, 7 .
Urinary system.— There were 39 admissions under this head, a ratio of 3.5 ;
the chief diseases were Bright's disease, 7 ; inflammation of bladder, 7 ; incontinence
of urine, 16 ; hæmaturia, 2.
Generative system.—The admissions under this head were 866, or a ratio of
77.3 per mille ; the chief diseases were ulcer of penis, 534 ; orchitis, 134 ; inflamma
-tion of glands, 99 ; stricture of urethra, 58.