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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
I.—STATISTICS OF THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF THE BENGAL
PRESIDENCY, 1870-79.
III.*
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS composing the ARMY
of BENGAL 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
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 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 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 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 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
...
360,136 19,532
54.2
459
1.27
2
5
34 5 20
6 4
33
1
54 2 103
40
38
1
1
2
52
6
5 0
February
...
362,146 19,519
53.9
336
.93
1
5
31
4 12
5
2
10 ...
50 ...
52
26
38 ... ...
2
49
5
4 4
March
...
366,950 19,093
52.0
381
1.04
13
6
33
2 28
8 1
26 ...
49
1
33
35
32 ...
1
5
53
6
49
April ...
366,552 19,782
54.0
479
1.31
45 11
75
1 39
17
3
26
1
41
2
23
29
33
. . . ...
4
39
5 85
May ...
365,415 21,729
59.5
703
1.92
167
7
123
2 63
61
4
38 3
48
1
28
35
27 ... ...
2
56
4 3 4
June
...
364,931 22,780
62.4
971
2.66
292
5
115
3
6 4 204 13
38
6
47
1
18
29
32 ...
... 3
48
8 45
July
...
363,616 23,413
6 4 . 4
754
2.07
174
1
85
1 49
133
9
40
4
67
1
17
35
43
1 ...
1
48
1
44
August
...
362,848 24,475
67.5
900
2.48
357 ...
100
3 63
50
5
50
5
78
4
7
37
38
1
1
3
51
1
46
September
...
361,856
2 5 , 6 7 2
70.9
855
2.36
304
1
99 10 77
40
8
57
6
77
2
14
33
30 ... ... ...
58
1 38
October
...
358,599 25,078
69.9
693
1.93
128 ...
67
7 76
14
7
65
5
86
1
25
39
38 ... ...
3
6 7 5 60
November
...
364,619 23,411
64.2
535
1 . 4 7
29 ...
35 12 53
8
3
6 0 7
86
1
43
33
36 ...
1
4
66
2
56
December
...
363,509 20,996
57.8
565
1 . 5 5
7
4
33 10 27
10
1
53
6
58 ...
92
43
51
. . . 1
6
56 12 95
1,519 45
830 60 571
556 60 496 44 741 16 455
414
436
3
5 35
643 56 646
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years
363,431
22,123
60.9
7,631
2 1 . 0 0
4.18 .12 2.28
1.74 1.53 .17 1.37 .12
2.04 .04 1.25 1.14 1.20 .01 .01 .10 1.77 .15 1.78
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
N U M B E R O F A D M I S S I O N S I N T O H O S P I T A L I N E A C H M O N T H .
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 1872-73 and 1876)
...
10
2
8
196
322
113
268
468
1,312
1,353
531
172
4,755
13.1
...
Cholera ...
2
3
17
74
210
412
261
548
410
166
49
10
2,162
5 . 9
70.26
Smallpox ...
28
34
41
73
51
19
13
1
2
. . .
9
23
294
.8
15.31
Enteric Fever
...
95
73
90
204
325
205
177
181
244
134
86
99
1 , 9 1 3
5.3
4 3 . 3 9
Fever, Intermittent
...
8,398
5,999
5,802
7,796
9,966 10,188 11,802 14,256 19,994 24,451 21,526 14,427
1 5 4 , 6 0 5
425.4
.04
Fevers, Remittent and Continued ...
1,524
1,595
2,561
5,508
8,100
7,710
8,189
7,883
9,127
7,421
4,183
2,311
66,112
1 8 1 . 9
.86
Apoplexy
13
10
34
72
139
460
386
151
86
46
28
13
1,438
4.0
38.66
Delirium Tremens ...
74
60
83
71
97
89
123
121
122
106
66
64
1,076
3.0
5 . 5 8
Dysentery
...
802
576
698
1,027
1,014
829
932
1,343
1,411
1,277
1,099
1,001
12,009
33.1
4.13
Diarrhœa
...
1,109
966
1,383
2,224
2,024
1,686
2,792
3,422
2 , 4 2 5 1,626
1,438
1,588
22,683
62.4
.19
Hepatitis ...
1,013
1,040
1,146
1,285
1,513
1,675
1,810
1,828
1,804 1,613
1,273
1,120
17,129
47.1
4.33
Spleen disease ...
169
184
183
168
207
213
265
231
217
273
229
244
2,583
7.1
.62
Respiratory diseases
...
3,702
3,193
2,809
2,671
2,571
1,894
1,920
1,906
1,773
1,997
2 , 5 4 8 3,594
30,578
84.1
1.49
Phthisis Pulmonalis ...
211
149
185
197
191
236
299
276
303
322
345
265
2,979
8.2
1 4 . 6 4
Scurvy
...
8
9
12
8
1 4
18
12
18
10
18
22
15
164
.5
3.05
Rheumatism
... 2,007 1,892 1,974 1,947 1,925 1,889
2 , 0 8 3 1,987
1,818
1,725
1,616
1,686
22,549
62.0
.49
Venereal diseases
...
7,790
7,339
7,745
7,718
6,330
5 , 4 3 9 5,924
5,453
4,959
5,441
5 , 4 5 9 6,214
75,811
208.6
Eye diseases
...
4 8 2
465
668
802
762
573
616
775
6 8 9
597
446
438
7,313
20.1
Abscess and Ulcer ... 2,288 2,170 2,427 2,595 2,456 2,636 3,417 3,035 2,523 2,137 2,103 1,961
29,748
81.9
Wounds and Accidents
...
2,868
2,816
3,273
3,198 2,923
2,466
2,489
2,322
2,393
2,556
2,389
3,312
33,005
90.8
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s . . .
3,967
4,138 4,876 5,361
5,773
5,845
6,882
6,568
6,258
5,537
4,765
4,259
64,229
176.7
36,560 32,722 36,015 43,195 46,913 44,595 50,660 52,773 57,880 58,796 50,210 42,816
553,135
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
101.5
90.4
98.1
117.8
1 2 8 . 4
122.2
139.3
145.4
1 6 0 . 0 164.0
137.7
117.8
1,522.0
* This is the aggregate of the Statistics of the European Army of the Bengal Presidency for the 10-Year Period. The Provincial Tables of Bengal which follow do not include
Troops on Active Service and on the March.