of fevers being 57.4 in 1878, while dysentery, the next highest disease of a
defined type, gives only 7.02 injuries, which include the wounded, coming third
with 4.7. At the opposite end of the scale it is worthy of note that phthisis
gives less than two in 1,000 of admissions in the army, the majority being in
Ghoorkha regiments, and cholera also gave exactly the same proportion. Res-
piratory diseases were high, and diarrhœa, bronchitis (with complications), and
syphilis maintained the same proportions as in other years.
•
STATEMENT No. XI.
•
Showing the comparative prevalence of the principal causes of sickness.
DISEASES.
ADMISSIONS PER CENT. ON TOTAL AMMO-
SIONS.
DISEASES.
ADMISSIONS PER CENT. OF TOTAL ADMIS
-
SIONS.
1878. 1877. 1876. 1875. 1874.
1878. 1877. 1876. 1875. 1874.
Fevers . . 57.44 48.3 56.5 49.2 52. 3 Diarrhœa . . 2.9 2.4 2.4 2.7 2 . 6
Cholera . .
.17 .04 .21
. 1 9 .06 Colic
. . .84 1.1. .89 1.1 .99
Rheumatisms . 2. 7
3.4 2.1 2. 6
2.7 Spleen . . .76 .91 .21
. 53 .72
Syphilis . . 1.4 1. 5
1.4 1. 7
1.8 Gonorrhœa
. .82 .75 .82 1.07 .68
Phthisis pulmo-
nails . .
.17 .2 .15 .16 .14 Abscess . . .89 1.6 1.4 1.8 1.7
Ulcers . . 1.4 2.1 1.9 2.3 2.5
Anœmia . .
.29 .31 .12 .13 .19 Boils
. . 1.9 2.7 2.1 2.6 2 . 6
Ophthalmia . 1.4 2.08 1. 8
2.3 1. 9 Scabies . . .47 .98 .77
. 55 .6
Diseases of the ear .35 .48 .41 .48 .52 Debility . . 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.5 1 . 2
Bronchitis
. 2.9 3. 8 2.5 2. 5
1.8 Poisons . . .11 .06 .06
. 08 .06
Pneumonia . .8 .7 .5 1.01 .77 Injuries . . 4.7 10.5 8.7 10. 4
9 . 6
Pleurisy . . .24 .38 .23
. 2 7 .29 All other diseases 8.66 9.9 8.05 8.4 8 . 7
Dyspepsia
. .61 .83 .61 .89 .79
Dysentery
. 7.02 5.5 4. 9
5.3 4.3
41. Of these diseases, those which ended. most fatally for the patients are
cholera, 53.25 (per cent. of admissions), pneumonia, 28.64, and phthisis, 27.5 ;
the last disease, however, in very small totals. The diseases which cause the
greatest number of deaths vary little from year to year, viz., fevers, bowel-com-
plaints, diseases of digestion, diseases of respiration, and cholera, and it is
melancholy to think that they are all included in that class which is under-
stood to be entirely amenable to improved sanitation; for it is now generally
recognised that the fatal form of pneumonia, which has been so unusually
prevalent, has its source in an interrupted paroxysm of ague ; a determinate
congestion of the lungs from a surface chill about the time the intermission
is drawing to a close. There is not any real advantage to be gained by com-
paring one figure of Table XII with another, or with those of the preceding
years. There is very little satisfaction in seeing a lower figure of one disease
for the year, when it is balanced by a higher ratio of another disease of a
Similar type. The broad fact deducible is that . out of 100 deaths in the
Native Army, two-thirds are losses from ague and its congeners, a disease which
sanitary science has eliminated from English hospitals altogether; and against
which medical science is credited with the most reliable specific.
STATEMENT No. XII.
Showina the diseases causina mortality.
1 8 7 8 .
1877.
1 8 7 6 .
1875.
1874.
DISEASES.
Died per
cent. of
admis- sions.
Died per
cent. of
total
deaths.
Died per
cent. of
admis- sions.
Died per
cent. of
total
deaths.
Died per
cent. of
admis- sions,
Died per
cent. of
total
deaths.
Died per
cent. of
adtnis- sions.
Died per
cent. of
total
deaths,
Died per
cent. of
admis- sions.
Died per
cent. of
total
deaths.
Small-pox
. . . . . 7.25 l.2 13.5 .98 8.1 .54 20.5 1.04 23.6 2.4
Fevers .
.
. . . . .5 24.86 .43 25.8 .28 23.2 .46 23.
.32 22.02
Cholera .
. . . . . 53.25 7.8 45.8 2.15 53.9 15.8 43.9 8.6 69.05 5.41
Phthisis . .
.
.
. .
27.5 4.11 21.6 5 . 2 25.4 5.2 26.7 4.6 28.5 5.5
Scurvy
. . . . . 4.21 .34 ... ... 3.7 .54 2.81 .45 ... ...
Bronchitis
. . 2.06 5.23 1.4 6.8 .97 3.4 1.02 2.6 1.1 4.4
Pneumonia . . . . . 28.64 19 71 20.9 18.6 20.6 15.6 25.2 26.2 20.4 23.7
Pleurisy . . . . . . 3.71 .77 1.2 .5.9 5.2 1.6 5.8 1.6 3.8, 1.4
Dysentery . . . . . 1.69 10.12 .74 5.09 .94 6.3 1.03 5.6 1.2 7.09 .
Diarrhœa
•
. • 2.01 4.97 1.6 5.09 1'29 4.32 1'6 4.7 1.5 • 5.2
Debility . . . . . . 2.67 2.57 3.5 5 . 1
1.5 1.2 3.8 3.4 1.2 1.4
Spleen diseases . . . . . 4.74 .3.08 4.08 4 . 5
3.3 5.04 2.5 4.1 2.04 3.86 '
Poisons . . . . . . 7.27 .68 4.7 .39 22.2 .18 6.9 .59 12.7 1.1
Injuries . . . . . . .63 2.57 .32 4.1
.18 2.1 .14 1.4 .19 2.4
All other diseases . . . . .66 12.13 .47 14. 7
.48 13.8 .45 11.5
.5 16.9