SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
CCXXV
IV.—MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE, 1870-79.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY of the EUROPEAN ARMY of INDIA in each JUNE of the
TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1870-79.
Y E A R .
Average
Strength.
Average N u m b e r
Daily Sick.
Number
Daily S ick
per 1,000 o f
Strength .
Number
Deaths (ex-
cluding
Deaths from
Injuries and
Sudden
Deaths out
of
Hospital).
DIED PER 1,000 OF
STRENGTH IN
J U N E
OF EACH YEAR.
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 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 h œ a .
Hepat 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 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 .
All Causes. Excludin
g Cholera.
1870
56,042
3,733
66.6
99
1.77
1.69
4
1
8 ... 10 25
3 13 ... 11
1
7
5
5 ... ...
.
..
6
1871
57,259
3,570
62.3
81
1.41
1.31
6 ...
7 ... 11 13
4
6
...
8 ...
4
7 10 ...
...
1
4
1872
59,156
3,334
56.4
126
2.13
1.76
22 ...
1 0 ...
4 48
1
4 2
10 ...
3
5
6
... ...
1 10
1873
59,125
3,293
55.7
77
1.30
1.23
4
2 8 1
3 25
. . .
3 ... 15 ...
1
5
6 ... ...
...
4
1874
59,584
3,366
56.5
69
1.16
1.12
2
2 12 ...
8 16
1
4 ...
7
...
. . .
4
3 ... ... ... 10
1875
58,696
3,386
57.7
119
2.03
1.86
10 ... 20 ...
9 40
1 ...
1
9 ...
3 3
5 ... ... ... 18
1876
58,038
3,308
57.0
68
1.17
1.03
8 ...
8 ...
1 27
1
5 ...
6 ... ...
2
6 ...
... ...
4
1877
57,232
3,262
57.0
57
1.00
.93
4 ... 10 ...
3 22
4
1 ...
2 ...
1
4
2 ...
... ...
4
1878
56,397
3,710
65.8
105
1.86
1.81
3 ... 35 ...
4 29
2
6 ... 10 ...
2
3
3 ...
... ...
8
1879
60,204
4,290
71.3
409
6.79
2.39 265 ... 23
2 24 46
2 14
3 12 ...
5 ...
5 ...
. . .
1
7
328
5 141
3 77 291 19 56
6 90
1 26 38 51 ...
...
3 75
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
_
For the Month
581,733
35,252
60.6
1,210
2.08
1.52 .56 .01 .24 .01 .13 .50 .03 .10 .01 .15 .00 .04
.07 .09 ... ... .01 .13
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH JUNE.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
Total
Admitted
during the
Month.
Admitted
per 1,000
of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred
cases
treated.
Dengue (of 1872, 1873 and 1876)
...
...
497
16
...
. . .
3 7
. . .
...
...
550
.9
...
Cholera
10
6
28
8
2
12
10
8
3
370
4 5 7
.8
71.77
Smallpox
1
...
5
3
8
. . .
2
1
...
1
2 1
.0
23.81
Enteric Fever
8
18
15
11
20
24
20
18
64
4 7
245
.4
57.55
Fever, Intermittent
2,414
1,795
875
1,531
1,192
1,501
1,227
1,334
1 , 1 1 9
2,303
1 5 , 2 9 1
26.3
. 0 2
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
1,122
1,030
970
805
1,100
1,069
873
955
1,170
1 , 3 9 0
10,484
1 8 . 0
. 7 3
Apoplexy
60
33
112
57
28
81
84
63
72
102
692
1.' 2
42.05
Delirium Tremens
41
25
14
9
13
11
15
15
9
1 2
164
. 3
1 1 . 5 9
Dysentery
181
202
167
137
143
181
1 3 7
1 4 4
1 8 5
2 1 1
1,688
2.9
3 . 3 2
Diarrhœa
310
311
275
252
226
325
2 1 9
253
2 0 2
5 0 0
2,873
4.9
.21
Hepatitis
281
311
280
268
242
287
258
2 2 8
2 1 8
2 3 8
2 , 6 1 1
4 . 5
3 . 4 5
Spleen disease
31
41
29
3 7
2 6
36
25
23
1 2
3 7
297
. 5
. 3 4
Respiratory diseases
289
289
276
288
3 2 1
3 0 5
2 6 4
2 9 8
2 5 4
2 3 0
2,814
4 . 8
. 9 2
Phthisis Pulmonalis
50
39
47
53
28
51
32
23
3 0
3 2
3 8 5
. 7
1 3 . 2 5
Scurvy
5
3
3
5
4
. . .
1
...
...
1
22
. 0
. . .
. 3 7
Rheumatism
3 4 1
3 1 3
2 6 0
2 9 3
3 1 6
3 3 3
2 6 5
2 4 0
2 0 8
2 2 6
2,795
4.8
Venereal diseases
7 9 4
7 7 8
7 0 9
7 4 8
8 2 3
1,059
789
8 4 8
1 , 0 8 6
1 , 0 0 5
8 , 6 3 9
1 4 . 9
Eye diseases
96
117
9 9
9 9
9 9
1 1 3
7 4
6 8
8 5
7 5
9 2 5
1 . 6
Abscess and Ulcer
554
482
491
495
520
588
476
416
4 2 0
434
4 , 8 7 6
8 . 4
Wounds and Accidents
362
370
422
379
417
529
429
4 7 3
3 8 7
3 4 4
4 , 1 1 2
7 . 1
All other Causes
946
940
991
908
915
1,203
941
882
915
892
9,533
16.4
7,896
7,103
6,565
6,402
6,443
7,708
6,178
6,290
6,439
8,450
69,474
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each June.
140.9
124.1
110.9
108.3
108.1
131.3
106.4
109.9
114.2
140.4
1 1 9 . 4
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