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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—NOWGONG, 1870-79.
LXXXVI.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
NOWGONG 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 D a i l y
Sick Per
1,000 of
Strength.
Number of
Deaths.
Died per
1,000 of
Strength.
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 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 i t 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 , 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 œ a . H e p a t i t i s .
S p l e e n d i s e a s e . 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
2 , 4 8 2 138
55.6
5
1
2
2
February
2,758 169
61.3
4
1
3
March
2,980 154 51.7
3
1
1 1
April
2,912 152
51.7
3
1
1
1
M a y
2,932 181
61.7
4
2 1
1
June
2,920 191
65.4
8
1
3
1
2
1
July
2,917 175
60.0
1
1
August
2,912 175
60.1
13
7
1
1
1
1
1
1
September
2,897 216
74.6
4
1 1
1
1
October
2,812 215
76.5
4
1
1
1
1
November
2,862 171
59.7
5
1
1
1
1
1
December
2,485 116 46.7
4
1
1 2
7
5 1 3 6
2
7
3 4 3
1
4 2 10
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 2,825 171 60.5
58 20.53 2.48
1.77 1. 42 2.12
.71
2.48
1.06 1.41 1.06 .36
1. 41 .71 3 . 5 4
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH. MONTH
Total
Admitted d u r i n g t h e
T e n Y e a r s . A d m i t t e d p e r 1 , 0 0 0 o f S t r e n g t h .
Died out
of each
hundred cases treated.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. May. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)
Cholera
7
7
2. 5
1 0 0 . 0 0
Smallpox
1
1
1
.4
Enteric Fever
1
4
1
1
1
8
2. 8
6 2 . 5 0
Fever, Intermittent
85
63 59
79 112 102 117 155 301 316 208 100
1,697
600.7
. 0 6
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
9
13
18
29
40
42
30
46
37
36
16
7
323
114.3
.93
Apoplexy
1
2
5
1
9
3.2
6 6 . 6 7
Delirium Tremens
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
10
3.5
Dysentery
2
2
3
4
5
7
4
5
7
6
3
1
49
17.4
4 . 0 8
Diarrhœa
7
2
4
12
9
6
22
32
9
5
5
8
121
42. 8
Hepatitis
7
10
8
8
17
13
14
12
17
18
2
11
137
48.5
5 . 1 1
Spleen disease
2
4
4
1
2
1
1
1
1
17
6. 0
Respiratory diseases
19
21
20
21
21
14
17
9
15
17
6
7
187
66. 2
1.60
Phthisis Pulmonalis
1
2
1
5
2
5
2
4
4
3
1
30
10. 6
1 0 . 0 0
Scurvy
2
2
3
7
2.5
1 4 . 2 9
Rheumatism
15
2 5
20
24
24
12
17
25
19
12
13
11
217
76. 8
.48
Venereal diseases
74 90
77
95
71
59
44
43
51 46
41
43
734 259.8
Eye diseases
7
5
4
6
4
5
11
12
8
10
1
3
76
26.9
Abscess and Ulcer
20
11
17
24
27
33
27
23
18
22
19
9
250
88. 5
Wounds and Accidents
2 7 26
26
28
36
13
21
19
14
22
20
25
277
98.1
All other Causes
33
36
41
58
61
49
59
48
55
47
28
24
539
190.8
309 310 303 397 436 364 392 442 558 564 369 252
4,696
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
124.5 112.4 101.7 134.9 148.7 124.7 134.4 151.8 192.6 200.6 128.9 101.4
1 , 6 6 2 . 3