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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS-MEERUT, 1870-79.
LXXII.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying MEERUT
during the TEN YEARS from 1870 to 1879, and the Prevalence of the Principal Diseases in each Month.
MONTHS.
Aggregate Strength for each
Month of
the Ten
Years.
Average Number Daily
Sick.
Number Daily
Sick per
1,000 of
Strength.
Number of
Deaths.
Died per
1,000 of
St rengt h.
CAUSES OF DEATHS IN HOSPITAL.
W o u n d s a n d A c c i d e n t s .
S u i c i d a l D e a t h s , a n d o t h e r
D e a t h s o u t o f H o s p t i a l .
C h o l e r a . S m a l l p o x .
E n t e r i c F e v e r .
F e v e r , I n t e r m i t t e n t .
F e v e r s , R e m i t t e n t a n d
C o n t i n u e d .
A p o p l e x y .
D e l i r i u m T r e m e n s .
D y s e n t e r y . D i a r r h œa . H e p a t i t i s .
S p l e e n d i s e a s e s .
R e s p i r a t o r y d i s e a s e s .
H e a r t D i s e a s e s .
P h t h i s i s P u l m o n a l i s .
D r o p s y . S c u r v y .
A t r o p h y a n d A n æ m i a .
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s .
January
13,640 703 51.5 15
1
3
1 1
3
2 1 1
1
1
February
14,480 729 50.3 18
1 1
1
5
2
1
3
4
March
14,939 751 50.3 11
2
1
5
3
April
14,580 802 55.0 16
4
1 1
1
2
2
1
4
May
14,743 907 61.5 23
2 8
2 2
1
2 2 1
2
1
June
14,636 952 65.0 23
1
3
4 1 2
5
1
1 3
2
July
14,586 961 65.9 20
4
7
1
6
1 1
August
14,527 1,065 73.3 28
8
2
2 2 1
1
5
1
3
3
September
14,476 1,166 80.5 82
49
6
3 4 3 4 1 5
1
1 2
1
2
October
14,116 1,134 80.3 40
2
3 1 4
6 1 7
2 1
10 1 2
November
12,518 960 76.7 27
1
1
6
10
2 1
2
2
2
December
13,426 788 58.7 18
2
1
5 1 6
1
1
1
59 5 38 2 12 22 7 29 3 59
14 12 14
1
25 1 18
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 14,222 910 64.0 321 22.57 4.15 .35 2.67 .98 1.55 .49 2.04 .21 4.15 .98 .85 . 98 .07
1.76 .07 1.27
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted
during the
Ten Years.
Admitted per 1,000
of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred cases
treated.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)
1
1
52 43 42 35
174 12.2
Cholera
1
14 65
2
82
5 . 8
7 1 . 9 5
Smallpox
6
1
1
2
5
1
1 6
1 . 1 31. 25
Enteric Fever
4
2
6
9 25 10
7
3 15
9
4
1 1
1 0 5 7.4
3 6 . 1 9
Fever, Intermittent
244 262 302
4 0 9
5 3 0
5 3 0
7 3 8
1 , 2 7 8
1 , 3 7 9
1 , 3 1 3
7 6 1
4 2 5
8 , 1 7 1
5 7 4 . 5
. 0 2
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
43 29 65 131
1 4 1 203 199
3 2 3
3 3 2
2 3 9
6 8
2 9
1 , 8 0 2
1 2 6 . 7
. 6 7
Apoplexy
1
2
5
5
1 3
1 9
1 3
7
2
7
1
7 5
5 . 3
2 9 . 3 3
Delirium Tremens
9
3
2
5
4
7
6
7
7
4
1
2
57
4.0
1 2 . 2 8
Dysentery
29 17 29 34 46 32 34 64 112 100
6 5
6 8 630
4 4 . 3
4 . 6 0
Diarrhœa
49
44 76 137 100 74 84
1 6 6
2 3 4
1 4 5
8 0 51
1 , 2 4 0
8 7 . 2
. 2 4
Hepatitis
47 58 59 60 81 72 82 89 91
9 0
7 3
5 0
8 5 2
5 9 . 9
6 . 9 2
Spleen disease
8
6
9
9
3 12 14 15 14
1 5
7
2
1 1 4
8 . 0
Respiratory diseases
103 111 135 132 118 101
1 0 2 137
1 2 3
9 0 104 106
1, 362
9 5 . 8 1. 03
P h t h i s i s P u l m o u a l i s
6
5
6
5
4
5 11
1 5 15
1 3
1 3
1 3
1 1 1
7 . 8
1 2 . 6 1
Scurvy
1
1
1
3
2
8
. 6
1 2 . 5 0 .39
Rheumatism
89 85 75
5 8
8 6
9 1
9 6
8 9
5 7
7 8
7 7
6 0
9 4 1
6 6 . 2
Venereal diseases
249 255 296 242 232 160 190 157 153 173 171
2 2 0
2 , 4 9 8
1 7 5 . 6
Eye diseases
17 19 27 33 35 14
2 5
3 1
4 4
2 4
2 3
1 7
3 9 0
2 1 . 7
Abscess and Ulcer 85 98 122 120 124 116 176 142 123
8 8
8 6
7 1 1,351
9 5 . 0
Wounds and Accidents
138 176 159 149 182 141
1 4 1
1 2 8
1 1 0
1 2 0 111 135
1 , 6 9 0 118. 8
All other
Causes
156 191 224 233 226 234 278
3 0 7
2 6 4
2 4 1
1 7 5
1 4 9
2,678
1 8 8 . 3
1,284 1,362 1,597 1,773 1,949 1,816 2,203 2,981 3,197 2,791 1,868 1,445 24,266
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
94.1
9 4 . 1 106. 9 121.6 132. 2 124. 1 151. 0 205. 2 220. 8 197.7 149.2 107.6
1 , 7 0 6 . 2