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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—NOWSHERA, 1870-79.
CXIV.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying NOWSHERA
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.
A v e r a g e
N u m b e r
Da i l y
Si ck.
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 .
Smal l pox.
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 . Dysent er y. Di arrhœa.
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 .
Dr o p s y .
Sc u r v y .
A t r o p h y a n d A n æ m i a .
Al l o t h e r Ca u s e s .
January
4,950 284 57.4 7
2
1
2
2
February
6,133 290 47.3
6
3 1
2
March
6,614 266 40.2 3
1
1
1
April
6,202 304 49.0 11
2
2
1
1
5
May
4,748 293 61.7 7
1
3 1
1
1
June
5,401 356 65.9 18
3 1
1 11
1
1
July
5,484 365 66.6
1 4
1
7 1
2
2
1
August
5,830 329 56.4 5
1
3
1
September
5,473 314 57.4 5
1
1 1
1 1
October
6,273 516 82.3 5
3
1 1
November
6,168 594 96.3 11
1 1
3
2
3
1
December
5,657
4 8 4 85.6 8
1 1
2
1 1 1
1
5
7 4 9 22 1 6
9 1 11 3 4
8
10
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 5,744 366 63.7 100 17.41 .87
1.22 2. 26 3.83 . 17 1.05
1.57 .17 1.92 .52 .70
1.39
1.74
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted d u r i n g t h e
Ten Years.
Admitted per 1,000 of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred c a s e s
t r e a t e d .
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV.
D E C .
Dengue (of 1872)
Cholera
1
4
1
1
7
1.2 71. 43
Smallpox
3
1
1
5
.9
Enteric Fever
1
1
2
4
3
1
2
1
15
2.6 46. 67
Fever, Intermittent
411 293 289 333 403 311 266 375 330 924 1,451 811 6,197 1,078.9
.06
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
9 35 34 85 167 268 340 154 219 285 52 20 1,668 290.4
. 54
Apoplexy
19 33 10
1
1
64
11.1 34. 38
Delirium Tremens
2
2
1
1
6
1.0 16. 67
Dysentery
7
9
2
8 10
9 11
6 20 23 10
6
121
21.1
4. 96
Diarrhœa
15 23 15 38 35 30 35 26 34 14 16 18
299 52.1
Hepatitis
17 22 14 14
9 19 14 19 15 30 17 22
212
36.9 4. 25
Spleen disease
5 2 12
6
1
3
9
6
2
1
6
3
56
9.7 1.79
Respiratory diseases
6 8 44 37 42 26 56 34 42 40 34 43 67
533 92.8 2. 06
Phthisis Pulmonalis
3
1
1
3
1
5
2
2
6
4
2
30
5.2 13. 33
Scurvy
2
2
. 3
Rheumatism
22 35 35
2 1
2 1 24 23 34 32 41 23 39
350
60.9
35
Venereal disease
86 71 77 120 87 75 59 54 57
7 4 61
6 1
882 153.6
Eye diseases
3
9 15 14 15
8
5
5
8 14
5
6
107
18.6
Abscess and Ulcer 17 33 42 33 32 29 48 59 35 19 17 27
391
68.1
Wounds and Accidents
41 32 41 56 34 35 33 32 29 39 26 34
432
75.2
All other Causes
46 59 67 75 68
9 4 131 123 88 78 57 57
9 4 3 164.2
751 669 681 850 917 990 1,049 950 915 1,584 1,790 1,174 12,320
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
151.7 109.1 103.0 137.1 193.1 183.3 191.3 163.0 167.2 252.5 290.2 207.5
2 , 1 4 4 . 8