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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
X.—WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE EUROPEAN ARMY, 1870-79.
CCCXXII.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the WOMEN of the EUROPEAN ARMY of INDIA in each
YEAR and for the TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1870-79.
YEAR.
Average
Strength
in
each Year.
Average
Number
Daily
Sick.
D a i l y S i c k p e r 1 , 0 0 0 o f
A v e r a g e S t r e n g t h .
Number
of
Deaths.
DIED PER
1,000.
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
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 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 .
P h t h i s i s P u l m o n a l i 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 .
A n æ m i a a n d A t r o p h y .
C h i l d - b i r t h a n d A b o r -
t i o n .
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s .
All
Causes.
Exclud-
in g
Cholera.
1870
...
6,168
*
* 166 26.91 23.67
20 ...
1
1
30
12
16
11
8
20
5
5
7
18
12
1871
. . . 6,384
264 41.4
154 24.12 22.24
12
1
4
. . . 27
3
18
11
10
21
10
4
3
16
14
1872
. . . 6,650
280 42.1
243 36.54 26.01
70
2
7
1
23
11
22
20
9
28
2
10
9
18
11
1873
...
6,626
243
36.7
132 19.92 19.01
6
2
5
1
19
4
11
12
9 18
2
4
3
16
20
1874
...
6,627
235
35.5
129 19.47 19.32
1
2
4
. . . 17
2
14
5
12
19
8
3
11
20
1 1
1875
. . . 6,335
259
40.9
164 25.89 20.52
34 ...
7
2
20
5
14
10
7
14
7
3
6
21
14
1876
...
6,050
200
33.1
126 20.83 17.85
18
1
5
. . . 12
9
13
7
5
11
7
5
5
16
13
1877
...
5,644
177
31.4.
127 22.50 19.13
19 ...
6
. . . 10
7
10
4
14
14
4
2
6
19
12
1878
...
5,170
206 39.8
151 29.20 23.98
27
3
7 ...
25
7
7
8
8
15
5
6
4
15
14
1879
...
4,640
182
39.2
116 25.00 23.28
8
3
5
1
13
10
13
5
5
9
5
5
7
18
9
215
14
50
6 196
70 138
93
87 169
55
47
61 177 130
Died per 1,000 of Strength.
TEN YEARS
...
60,294 2,046
†
37.8 1,508 25.01 21.44 3.57
. 2 3 .83
3.35
1.16 2.29 1.54 1.44 2.80 .91 .78 1.01 2.94 2.16
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH YEAR.
Total
Admitted
during the
Ten Years.
Admitted
per 1,000
of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred
cases
treated.
1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879.
Dengue
...
...
...
651
29
3
2
36
...
...
...
721
12.0
...
Cholera
...
28
19
100
7
1
51
27
24
35
11
303
5. 0
7 0 . 9 6
Smallpox
...
3
7
13
15
5
2
8
17
28
16
114
1.9
12.28
Enteric Fever
...
3
9
9
11
6
13
9
17
1 1
11
9 9
1. 6
50.51
Intermittent Fever
... 1,840 1,397 1,282 1,113 1,153 1,201
969
767 1,055 1,555
12,332
204.5
.05
Remittent and Continued Fevers
...
802
759
893
781
832
606
649
512
813
460
7,107
117.9
2 . 7 6
Apoplexy
...
15
6
1 9
9
2
13
13
9
9
12
107
1.8
65.42
Dysentery
...
222
253
279
227
189
191
167
163
164
126
1,981
32.8
6.97
Diarrhœa
...
413
368
521
365
340
432
299
277
299
225
3,539
58.7
2.63
Hepatitis
...
119
135
142
144
117
120
130
116
111
111
1,251
20.7
6.95
Spleen disease
...
22
7
14
20
20
25
22
23
18
23
194
3.2
...
Respiratory diseases
... 243
270
222
230
275
175
220
255
222
196
2,308
38.3
2.38
Phthisis Pulmonalis
...
63
69
78
60
57
67
41
54
52
32
573
9.5
29.49
Anæmia and Atrophy ‡
... 1,129 1,361 1,541 1,280 1,236 1,429 1,625 1,580 1,853 1,481
14,515
240.7
.42
Rheumatism
...
116
107
168
129
126
108
119
115
114
100
1,202
20.0
...
Eye diseases
...
319
522
437
395
430
347
272
235
313
221
3,491
57.9
. . .
Abortion
...
115
156
139
126
126
126
98
88
107
74
1,155
19.2
1.99
Diseases peculiar to Women
... 202
244
218
244
231
270
247
204
195
182
2,237
37.1
1.85
Abscess and Ulcer
...
169
166
173
167
197
155
138
142
113
116
1,536
25.5
Injuries
...
68
70
75
69
76
59
58
52
57
52
636
10.5
All other Causes
...
490
783
767
710
719
723
298
239
222
190
5,141
85.3
6,381 6,708 7,741 6,131 6,141 6,115 5,451 4,889 5,791 5,194
60,542
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Year.
1,034.5 1,050.8 1,164.1 925.3 926.7 965.3 901.0 866.2 1,120.1 1,119.4
1,004.1
* Not obtainable.
† D a i l y S i c k - r a t e c a l c u l a t e d o n t h e A g g r e g a t e S t r e n g t h o f 9 Y e a r s .
‡ (
a
) D y s p e p s i a i n c l u d e d u n d e r A n æ m i a a n d A t r o p h y .