56
Strength and
Mortality ac-
cording to
Classes.
MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.
The mean mortality is 32.7 per milk. But it must be noted that in some instances the
mortality is terribly high. The 39th Regiment at Bangalore continues to' show a lamenta-
bly high rate, though it is exceeded by that at Mercara. The lowest mortality is at the
French Rocks, where it is only 17.65 per milk of estimated population. But in estimating the
mortal ity of this section of the community it is necessary to include the sepoys themselves,
the husbands and fathers of the women and children who constitute the bulk of the civil
community of regimental lines. Adding to the strength and deaths given in the above
table (IX.), the strength of sepoys and deaths amongst them it raises the aggregate strength
to 16,619, and the deaths to 437, giving a ratio per milk of population of 26.3. In like man-
lier in the case of the 8th Regiment at Mercara it reduces the mortality of all classes to 38
per mille, and the 39th at Bangalore to 33.8, which are still very high death-rates. Con-
trasting these results with the mortuary returns received for the cantonment and town of
Bangalore, and for the cantonment of Bellary, I find that the mortality is as follows :—
...
...
Cantonment of Bangalore...
...
...
...
20.6 per mille.
Town of
do.
...
...
...
...
...
...
18.5
do.
Cantonment of Bellary ...
...
...
...
21.5
do.
Population living in regimental lines, all classes troops and
f o l l o w e r s . . .
26.3 do.
The latter figures, I think, more closely represent the death-rate amongst the native
community living in the great centres of population, than the former. Certainly any returns
below 20 per mille must be considered as pointing to defective registration.
Amongst the population of the jails in my circle of superintendence the mortality was
19.1 per mille upon mean annual strength during the year under report, viz. :—
In Mysore Province and Coorg
...
...
...
...
...
19.6
Ceded Districts
...
...
...
...
...
...
17.99
Strength, and Mortality according to Classes. —From the returns which accompany the
Annual Returns of Sick and Wounded, under W. 0. Form 298, the following statement is
compiled :—
STATEMENT No, X.
Corps.
HINDUS.
MAH0MED ANS.
CHRISTIANS.
TOTAL.
S t r e n g t h .
Died.
S t r e n g t h .
Died.
S t r e n g t h .
Died.
S t r e n g t h .
Died.
In. Out.
In .Out.
In. Out.
in. Out.
Head-Quarters Sappers and Miners
... 436
3 11
41 ... ...
123
3
5
600
G 16
23rd Regiment W.L.I. ...
...
...
... 430
3
1
159 ...
1
85 ...
2
674
3
4
36th
do.
N.I.
...
...
,...
...
382
3
1
301
1
3
29 ... ...
712
4
4
39th
do.
do.
............ 427
4 ...
229
2 ...
55
1 ...
711
7
...
30th
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
314
2 ...
329
1
2
44 ... ...
687
3
2
8th
do.
do.
...
...
...
... 431
3
2
216 ...
3
35 ... ...
712
3
5
2nd
do.
L.C.
...
...
. . .
44
1 ...
193
2 ...
12 ... ...
249
3 ...
4th
do.
do.
...
...
...
...
54 ...
1
210
1
1
15 ... ...
309
1
2
4th
do.
N.I.
...
...
...
...
380
5 ...
277
50 ... ...
707
5 ...
16th
do.
do.
...
... 352
3
1
27-1
2 ...
80 ...
1
706
3
2
Total ... 3,250 27 17 2,289
9 10
528
4
S 6,067 40 35
It must be observed that the figures herein given as representing strength and morta-
lity do not agree with those given in other parts of the report, which refer only to mean
strength and actual deaths amongst such regiments or portions of regiments as served
within the limits of the two Army Commands comprising my circle of superintendence. This
return is framed upon the strength of regiments as they stood on the last day of the year,
and includes all deaths wherever they may have occurred.
Strength and
deaths of men
at each quill-
quennial pe).
riod of ago.
—
Strength.
DIED.
Total
RATIOS PER MILLE OF DEATHS
TO STRENGTH.
In. Out.
In.
Out.
Total,
Hindus...
...
...
...
...
...
3 , 2 5 0
27 17 44 8.3
5.2
13.5
Mahomedans ...
...
...
...
2 , 2 8 9
9 10 19 3 . 93
4.3
8.30
Christians
...
...
...
...
528
4
8 12 7.57
15.14 I22.72
Strength and deaths of men at each. quinquennial period of age.—From the same
Returns, W. 0. F. 298, the following statement, showing the mortality by age, is compiled.
The Corps of Sappers and Miners is not included, as the returns have not yet been received.
The strength and deaths do not precisely agree, even when allowance is made for the Sap-
pers with the table last given. In that the 2nd Light Cavalry is included ; in this it is not,
as the regiment had left my superintendence before the end of the year..