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I. GENERAL DISEASES.
Group A.
Sub-group I—Small-pox gave but one admission (at Poonamallee) and no death.
Other eruptive fevers —55 admissions and no deaths.
Enteric fever.—There were 139 cases with 44 deaths, as compared with 73
admissions and 23 deaths in 1885.
Secunderabad contributed over 54 per cent. of the total admissions and 56
per cent. of total deaths. At Bangalore there were 30 admissions, against 18 the
previous year, 60 in 1884, and 41 in 1883. At Wellington the number rose from 3
admissions in 1885 to 11 in this year. Of this number, 2 cases occurred amongst
patients in hospital who had not therefore been subjected to any extraneous
source of disease. There were 6 admissions at Kamptee against 3 the previous
year. The disease appears to have been of a mild type. In Belgaum there were
4 cases and 1 death. The Senior Medical Officer found it impossible to trace the
origin of the disease to any insanitary condition of the vicinity of the barracks.
At Cannanore there were 3 cases, all recovering, and at Rangoon 3, all of which
proved fatal. At Thayetmyo there were 2 fatal cases, and at Bellary 1 fatal case.
There were 3 cases on the line of march. In two instances the disease was
contracted at Wellington and in the third at Belgaum.
Other continued fevers gave 1,257 admissions and 1 death.
Cholera.—There were 2 cases of cholera, both in Burma; 1, a case trans
-ferred from Upper Burma, died; the other, on the march, was seized at Rangoon
and recovered.
Dysentery caused 770 admissions and 30 deaths. Of these, 200 cases and 11
deaths occurred in Burma, or with a ratio of 116.28 admissions and 6.40 deaths
per mile; 172 with 1 death in depôts, or 298 . 09 of admissions and 1.73 of deaths
per mile; Secunderabad, 149 and 3 deaths, or 55 . 29 of admissions and 1 . 11 of deaths
per mile; Belgaum and Western districts, 131 and 4 deaths, or 76 . 70 of admis
-sions and 2.34 deaths per mile; Bangalore division, 60 admissions and no deaths,
or 24 . 54 of admissions; Eastern district, 36 and 7 deaths, or 36 . 77 of admissions
and 7 . 15 deaths per mille; Nagpore, 13 and no deaths, or 14 . 66 of admissions. The
causes in the main were chiefly climatic.
Sub-group II—Malarial fevers.– There were 1,573 admissions and 8 deaths,
or a ratio of 140 . 5 admissions and 0 . 71 deaths per mille. This, compared with the
“paroxysmal fevers” of last year, gives . an increase of 810 admissions and 6 deaths.
Of the above, 75 and 8 deaths are attributable to remittent fever.
Sub-group IV.—The total admissions under this head amount to 3,167, of
which 1,079 were due to primary syphilis, 378 to secondary syphilis, and 1,710 to
gonorrhœa ; this does not take in 534 cases of ulcer of penis, and 100 cases of other
affections of the generative system more or less suspiciously venereal in nature.
The rates of prevalence of primary syphilis and gonorrhœa show a reduction
of 27 . 0 and 5 . 3 per 1,000, respectively, as compared with the last year. The ratio
of admissions for secondary syphilis is 12 . 6 in excess of the previous year. The
following table shows the comparative prevalence of primary syphilis in the several
circles of administration and at the depôts during the years 1885 and 1886:—
Primary Syphilis.
Eastern
district.
Belgaum
division
and
Western
district.
Bangalore
division
and Ceded
Districts.
Hyderabad
subsidiary
force.
Nagpore
force.
British
Burma
division.
Depôts,
1885 . . .
164
144
455
154
29
194
126
1886 . . .
101
216
427
75
9
162
84