OF INDIA DURING- THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1870-79.
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1860-69 the admission-rate from respiratory diseases in the Bengal Presidency
was 74.7, and the death-rate .99 per 1,000; so that, even excluding the Army of
Afghanistan, these diseases have become more prevalent and fatal during the
last ten years. The increase in the mortality is, however, entirely due to the
increased death-rate from these diseases in the Punjab. In the Punjab the
death-rate has risen from • 89 to 1 . 59 per 1,000, and in all the other provincial
areas of the Presidency it has fallen. But during the last ten years the ad-
mission-rate from fevers has risen in the Punjab, and fallen in all the other pro-
vincial areas, with the exception of Meerut and Rohilcund. It is also worthy
of remark that the admission-rate from respiratory diseases has also risen in
Meerut and Rohilcund, though the death-rate has fallen. These facts are
brought out in the following table :—
Statement contrasting the admission-rates from fevers (chiefly inalarial) and the admission and
death-rates from respiralory diseases in the dyferent provincial areas of the Bengal Presid-
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ency during the ten-year Periods 1860-69 and 1870-79.
PROVINCIAL ARRAS.
TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1860-69.
TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1870-79.
Fevers.*
Respiratory diseases.
Fevers, exclud-
ing enteric.
Respiratory diseases.
Admission-rate
per 1,000.
Admission-rate
per 1,000.
Death-rate
per 1,000,
Admission-rate
per 1,000.
Admission-rate
per 1,000.
Death-rate
per 1,000.
Bengal Proper
567.5
71.2
1.07
406.8
48.8
.32
Gangetic Provinces and Oudh
467-0
64.5
.93
341.0
65.6
43
Rohilcund and Meerut
410.4
72.0
88
551.4
78.8
63
Agra and Central India
995.7
78.4
99
690.6
71.5
74
Punjab
741.3
80.2
89
964.9
100.7
1.59
This includes the admission-rate from enteric fever.
45. Tn the European Army of the Madras Presidency there were 6,338
admissions and 35 deaths from respiratory
diseases during 1870-79, an admission-rate
of 57 .4, and a death-rate of 32 per 1,000. These are very much smaller than
'the corresponding rates in the Bengal Presidency. The higher temperature
of the cold weather months, and the comparatively low admission-rate from
malarial fevers, probably account for the comparative freedom of Madras from
respiratory diseases. During the ten-year period 1800-69 the average admission-
rate from these diseases in Madras was 43 . 2, so that they have increased in
frequency of late years.
46. In the European Army of Bombay the admissions from respiratory
diseases during 1870-79 were 6,614 and the
deaths 72, an admission-rate of 63 . 9, and a _
death-rate of .70 per 1,000. During this period Bombay has thus held a
midway place between Bengal and Madras as regards these diseases. The
admission-rate from respiratory diseases among are European troops of this
Presidency during the period 1863-69 was 23 . 0 per 1,000.
47. The admissions from venereal diseases in the European Army of India
during the ten-year period 1870-79 were
117,485, an admission-rate of 203 . 5 per
1,000. The admission-rates of 1878 and 1879 from these diseases were con-
siderably above the average rate of the period.
48. 75,811 of the admissions from venereal diseases during this ten-year
Respiratory diseases in the Madras Army.
Respiratory diseases in the Bombay Army.
Venereal diseases in the Army of India.
Venereal diseases in the Army of Bengal.
period occurred among the Bengal troops
with an admission-rate of 208.6 per 1,000.
In the immediately preceding ten-year period the admission-rate from these
diseases was 265 . 5 per 1,000—a very much higher admission-rate than the
average of the last ten years. Although the average admission-rate of the ten
years 1870-79 is thus less than that of the preceding ten-year period, the