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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS-DELHI, 1870-79,
LXXIV.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS . occupying DEL
HI
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.
C A U S E S O F D E A T H S I N H O S P I T A L .
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 .
Cholera/
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 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 u l m o n a l i s .
Dr o p s y .
S e 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
4,796 315 65.7
7
1
2
2
2
February
5,027 280 55.7
2
1
1
March 4,727 247 52.3
9
1 2
1 1
1
1
2
April
4,375 256 58.5
: 3
1
1
1
May
4,364. 293 67.1
6
1
2
2
1
June
4,354 297 68.2 14
1
2
5
2
1
2
1
July
4,354 283 65.0
7
1
3
1
1 1
August
4,350 365
8 3 . 9
12
3
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
September
4,335 445 102.7 10
1
2
3
1
3
October
4,306
4 5 0 104.5
8
1
1
2
1
1 1
1
November
4,523 386 85.3
9
2
3
1
1
1
1
December
4,428 333 75.2
9
1
1
1 5
1
6 1 8
1 1 15
7
8 1 4 4 10
1 12 1 7
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years
4,495 329 73.2 96 21.36 1.34 .22 1.78 2. 45 3.34
1.56
1.78 .22 .89
. 8 9 2.22
.22 2.67 .22 1.56
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted per
during the
Ten Years.
Admitted 1,000
of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred
treated.
JAN.
FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)
1 139
14
32
33
219
48.7
Cholera
1
1
4
1
7
1.6 85. 71
Smallpox
2
2
2
3
2
6
17
3.8
5. 88
Enteric Fever
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
10
2.2 80. 00
Fever, Intermittent
195 102 131 208 316 385 435 682 941 860 417 326
5,028 1,118.6
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
4
9
24
68
78
32
42
40
76 74
26
13
486
108.1
2. 26
Apoplexy
1
1
7
4
1
17
3.8 88. 24
Delirium Tremens
2
2
1
3
9
1
4
7
6
2
1
1
89
8.7
Dysentery
11
6
10
11
4
8
11
28
20
13
24
25
171
38.0
4. 09
Diarrhœa
7
17
16
42
29
25 22
58
43
24 36
35
354
78.8
Hepatitis
12
9
17
15 19
26 17
29
24 23
18
17
226
5 0 . 3
3. 54
Spleen disease
5
5
1
2
2
1
5
3
8 19
10
20
8 1
1 8 . 0
1. 23
Respiratory diseases
71
56
41
20
4 1 18
32
24 28
35 46
67
453
100.8
. 88
Phthisis Pulmonalis
5
2
3
2
5
2
4
8
6
7
10
6
60
13.3 16. 67
Scurvy
1
1
2
. 4
Rheumatism
40
36
32
16
19
18
18
23
25 34 13
29
303
67.4
.59
1820.6
Venereal diseases
112
89
79
9 4 61
44
64
51
38
54 48
87
821
Eye diseases
9
12
8
9
8
3
7
5
7
4
6
6
84
18.7
87.2
Abscess and Ulcer
27
40
31
35
43
42
33
32
26
26 27
30
392
91.4
Wounds and Accidents
2 7 45 43
30
35 28
21
33
23
36 49
41
411
186.7
All other Causes
64
6 4 74
59
85
63
78
72
84 75
67
54
839
594 497 513 619 733 705 797 1,102 1,498 1,301 865 796 10,020
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
123.9 98.9 108.5 141.5 168.0 161.9 183.1 253.3 345.6 302.1 191.2 179.8
2,229.1