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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
I.—STATISTICS OF THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA, 1870-79.
I.*
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS composing the ARMY of
INDIA 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 .
Dysentry. Diarrhœa. 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 .
Dropsy. 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
... 569,507 31,299
55.0
738
1.30
7 5 55 6 41 14 7 65 1 110 3 121 60 78 2 1 2 73 8 79
February
... 572,582 31,135
54.4
573
1.00
7 5 55 4 21
9 3 38 1 91 ... 57 52 61 ... 1 4 70 6 88
March
... 579,703 30,055
51.8
622
1.07
19 10 43 2 36 19 3 54 1 95 1 49 64 53 ... 1 7 86 10 69
April
... 584,156 31,158
53.3
749
1.28
92 16 104 4 56 53 9 43 2 71 2 25 47 44 ... ... 4 63 5 109
May ...
582,672 33,653
57.8 1,014
1.74 215 11 150 4 72 151 9 55 3 77 1 32 52 36 ... ... 2 82 4 58
June
... 581,733 35,252
60.6 1,295
2.23 328 5 141 3 77 291 19 56 6 90 1 26 38 51 ... ... 3 75 12 73
July
... 579,850 36,530
63.0 1,078
1.86 239 2 108 2 61 164 15 69 9 101 1 25 59 60 1 2 1 79 4 76
August
... 578,551 38,198
66.0 1,264
2.18 435 ... 131 4 84 62 7 85 8 127 5 12 60 60 1 1 4 91 7 80
September ... 576,654 39,937 69.3 1,209
2.10 330 1 171 14 93 53 12 105 8 130 2 17 57 47 ... ... ... 96 4 69
October
... 570,239 39,325
69.0
997
1.75 138 1 103 11 92 24 13 106 9 132 1 35 64 58 2 2 3 97 7 99
November ...
579,072 36,955
63.8
812
1.40
41 ...
53 14 71 20 6 89 12 142 1 55 55 64 1 1 4 95 3 85
December ... 574,277 33,125
57.7
815
1.42
13 4 54 11 35 15 3 88 7 101 ... 108 77 67 1 1 8 79 14 129
1,864 60 1,168 79 739 875 106 853 67 1,267 18 562 685 679 8 10 42 986 84 1,014†
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 577,416 34,719
60.1 11,166 19.34 3.22 .10 2.03 1.42 1.52 .18 1.48 .12 2.19 .03 .97 1.19 1.18 .01 .02 .07 1.71 .14 1.76
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
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)
...
132
10
339
728
876
550 1,103
807 1,542 1,525
644
309
8,565
14.8
...
Cholera ...
11
16
25
150
311
457
358
650
454 180
67
18
2,697 4.7
69.11
Smallpox
...
47
46
65
101
65
21
16
1
4
2
12
28
408
.7
14.71
Enteric Fever
...
159
122
137
275
386
245 238
264
371
199
116
153
2,665 4.6
43.83
Fever, Intermittent ...
12,379 9,447 9,150 11,427 14,298 15,291 18,035 21,219 28,852 34,616 29,628 20,481 224,823
389.4
0.4
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
...
2,714 2,842 4,470 7,973 10,745 10,484 10,849 10,491 11,979 10,473 6,546 4,104 93,670 162.2
.79
Apoplexy
... 34
37
67
150
339
692
447
180
126
81
48
26
2,227
3.9
39.29
Delirium Tremens ...
163
117
159
159
174
164
224
238
207
204
142
128
2,079
3.6
5.10
Dysentery ...
1,731 1,348 1,372 1,740 1,736 1,688 2,170 2,708 2,623 2,304 1,980 1,956
23,356
40.4
3.65
Diarrhœa
... 1,944 1,727 2,269 3,279 3,041 2,873 4,714 5,193 3,568 2,601 2,352 2,574
36,135
62.6
.19
Hepatitis
... 2,016 1,905 1,994 2,145 2,454 2,611 2,887 2,875 2,900 2,698 2,277 2,018
28,780
49.8
4.40
Spleen disease
...
217
247
247
258
287
297
362
302
286
368
284
321
3,476
6.0
.52
Respiratory diseases ...
5,077 4,450 4,009 3,793 3,586 2,814 2,895 2,830 2,627 2,985 3,656 4,808
43,530
75.4
1.29
Phthisis Pulmonalis
...
372
292
319
282
322
385
469
449
453
506
513
446
4,808
8.3
14.12
Scurvy ...
12
16
18
10
21
22
18
27
17
23
28
18
230 .4
4.35
Rheumatism ...
2,781 2,701 2,822 2,829 2,821 2,795 3,137 2,920 2,696 2,585 2,359 2,357
32,803
56.8
.47
Venereal diseases
... 11,601 10,891 11,580 11,712 9,732 8,639 9,385 8,716 8,238 8,762 8,779 9,450 117,485
203.5
Eye diseases
...
737
706
999 1,145 1,102
925 1,016 1,211 1,091
998
783
698
11,411
19.8
Abscess and Ulcer ...
3,922 3,835 4,260 4,750 4,584 4,876
5,467 4,853 4,219 3,861 3,619 3,471
51,722
89.6
W o u n d s a n d A c c i d e n t s . . . 4,532 4,588 5,214 5,142 4,711 4,112 4,249 3,990 3,959 4,245 3,994 5,303
54,039
93.6
All other Causes
... 7,031 7,035 8,007 9,045 9,618 9,533 11,033 10,662 9,904 9,282 8,099 7,406 106,655 184.7
57,612 52,378 57,522 67,093 71,209 69,474 79,072 80,591 86,116 88,498 75,926 66,073 851,564
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
101.2 91.5
99.2 114.9 122.2 119.4 136.4 139.3 149.3 155.2 131.1 115.1
1,474.8
* This is the aggregate of the Statistics of the whole Army of India for the 10-Year Period. The Provincial Tables which follow do not include Troops on Active Service and on
the March.
†Accidental, Suicidal, and other Deaths from violence.