OF INDIA DURING THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1870-79
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The following Table gives the admission-rates year by year from venereal
diseases in the European Army of Bombay for 15 years 1865-79 :—
*Table showing the annual admission-rate from venereal diseases in the European Army of
Bombay for 15 years 1865-79.
Year .
Admission-rate from
venereal diseases.
Year.
Admission-rate from
venereal diseases.
Year
Admission-rate from
venereal diseases.
1865
201.8
1870
180.4
1875
174.4
1866
212.1
1871
174.4
1 8 7 6
178.8
1867
227.6
1872
154.8
1876
205.0
1868
204.4
1873
181.1
1878
230.6
1869
159.0
1 8 7 4
1 7 0 . 8
1879
269.9
*The admission-rates for the years 1865-69 have been taken from the Bombay Sanitary Reports.
52. The average death-rates from the principal diseases of the European
Army of India is given in the following
The average death-rates from the principal diseases
table.
The details for each of the ten
in the Army of India.
years are entered in this table, as well as
the composition of the standard derived from the aggregate of the statistics of
the ten-year period 1870-79 :—
Composition of the death-rale of the Army of India in each year of the ten years 1870-79,
cholera being excluded.
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
Standard of
ten years
1870-79.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
Hepatitis
...
2.19 3.28 2.73 2.45 2.33 2.16 1.85 1.68 1.62 2.25 1.68
Enteric fever
...
2.03 1.58 1.62 1.87 1.34 170 1.44 1.82 1.60 3.64 3.59
Accidental and suicidal deaths ...
1.90 1.76 1.81 1.63 1.70 1.66 1.73 1.61 1 .92 1.68 3.50t
Apoplexy
...
1.52 1.67
.83 1.93 1.29
.95 1.73 1.63 1.22 1.73 2.17
Dysentery ...
1.48 2.. 1 1 1.34 1.85 1.31 1.23
.84 1 . 16 .82 1.73 2.49
Fevers not enteric...
1.42 2.57 1.74 1.38 1.11
.86 1.04
.59
.56 1 .43 2.96
Heart diseases
. . .
1.19 1.50 1.63 1..28 1.53 1.25 1.03 1.05
.98
.83
.80
Phthisis pulmonalis
...
1.18 1.47 1.53 1 . 24 1.16 1.03 1.25 1.07
.93 1.06 1.05
Respiratory diseases ...
.97 1.23
.99
.95
.85
.52
.77
. 6 6 .49
.74 2.52
Delirium tremens
...
18
.27
.39
.19
.09
.11
.14
.10
.12
.25
.17
Diarrhœa
...
.12
*
.12
.17
.1.0
.03
.14 .05
.07
.07
.30
All other causes...
1.94 2.55 1.71 2.. 0 2 1.69 1.87 2.20 1.58 1.54 2.05 2.25
Died per 1,000 from all causes...
16.12 19.99 i 16.44 16 . 96 14.50 13.40 14.16 13.00 11.87 17.16 23.48
Percentage of deaths front the principal causes in eachc year of the ten years 1870-79,
cholera being excluded.
CAUSES OP DEATHS.
Standard of
t en
y e a r s
1870-79.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
Hepatitis ...
13.59 16.41 16.61 14.41 16. 07 16 . 12 13.06 12.92 1.3.65 1.2.89 7. 16
Enteric fever...
12.59
7.90 9.85 11.03 9. 24 12 . 69 10.17 14.00 13.48 20.85 15.29
Accidental and suicidal deaths ...
11.79
8.80 11 . 01 9.61 11.72 12.39 1.2 . 22 12 . 30 16. 18 9.62
†
14.91
Apoplexy
...
9.43
8.36 5 .05 11 . 38 8.90 7.09'
1 2 . 2 2 12.53 10. 28 0.91 9. 24
Dysentery
...
9..18 10. 56 8 . 15 10.91 9.03 9 . 18 5 . 93 8.92 6.91 9.91 10.60
Fevers not enteric
...
8.81 12 . 80 10 . 58 8 . 14 7'66 6.42 7.35 4. 54 4.72 8. 19' 12.61
Heart diseases
...
7.38
7.50 9.92 7.55 10.55 9.33 7.27 8.08 8.26 4. 75 3.41
Phthisis pulmonalis
...
7.32
7.35 9 . 31 7.31 8.00 7 .69 8.83 8.23 7.83 6.07 4.47
Respiratory diseases ...
6.02
6.15 6. 02 5.60 5 . 86 3 . 88; 5.43 5 .08 4.12 4.24 10 73
Delirium tremens
...
1.12
1.35
2.37 1.12
.62 1 .04 ;
.99
.77
1.01 1.42
.73
Diarrhœa
...
. 7 4
* .73 1.00
.69
.22 ;
. 9 9 .39
.59
..40 1.27
All other causes
...
12.03 12 . 76 10 . 40 11.91 11 . 66 13.95
1 5 . 5 4 12.15 12.97 11.75 9.58
All causes
...
100.0
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
1 0 0 . 0 0
100.00
100.00
* I n c l u d e d w i t h d y s e n t e r y .
t Of th ese, 71 were killed in action or died of wounds received in battle.