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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—ADEN, 1870-79.
CLIV.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying ADEN
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. N u m b e r
o f
D e a t h s .
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 .
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 P u l m o n a l i s .
D r o p s y .
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
7,100 236 33.2 10
3
3
2
1
1
February
7,303 276 37.8 8
1
1
2
4
March
7,323 282 38.5 5
1
1
1
1
1
April
7,504 253 33.7 3
2
1
May 7,408 301 40.6
7
1
3
1
2
June 7,393 340 46.0 17
1 3
1
1
2
July
7,375 299 40.5 16
5
3
3
1
1
3
August
7,172 287 40.0 9
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
September
7,157 281 39.3 7
2
1
1 1
2
October
7,475 231 30.9
8
1
1
1
1 4
November
6,999 194 27.7 4
1
1
1
1
December
7,112 253 35.6 10
1
3
4 1
1
1
2
2 25
11
16
7 9 5
4 1 21
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 7,277 269 37.0 104 14.29
. 1 4
. 2 7 .27 3.43 1. 51
2.20 .96 1.24 . 6 9
. 5 5 .14 2 . 8 9
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH
Total Admi t t e d
d u r i n g t h e
Te n Ye a r s . 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 1871-72 and 1873)
3
7 201 124 103 168
6
4
4
620
85.2
Cholera
1
1
. 1
1 0 0 . 0 0
Smallpox
1
1
2
.3
Enteric Fever
1
1
1
1
3
7
1. 0
28. 57
Fever, Intermittent
84 72
1 1 1 119
1 8 8 191 201 122 94 96
6 2 155 1, 495
205.4
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
17 32 29 59 190 180 149 44 53 25 15 25
818 112.4
.24
Apoplexy
7 29 14
3
7
2
1
1
64
8. 8 39. 06
Delirium Tremens
3
1
1
3 11
4
2 11
5
3
3
5
52
7. 1
Dysentery
2 8 24
7 20
9 18 21 25 18 24 15 31
240
33.0
4. 58
Diarrhœa
32 30 19 29 27 17 16 29 29 34 12 18
292
40.1
Hepatitis
13 17 20 25 26 20 33 25 22 16 19 28
264
36. 3
6. 06
Spleen disease
3 2
3
6
3
3
3
3
4
1
31
4. 3
Respiratory diseases
16 19 42 18 16 22 26 14 29 19 10 66
297
40.8
2.36
Phthisis Pulmonalis
6
7
5
1
4
2 12
3
3
2
2
4
51
7. 0
9. 80
Scurvy
1
1
2
.3
Rheumatism
23 18 26
3 3
2 0 31 35 29 28 32 18 29
322
44.2
.35
Venereal diseases
71 63 68 51 51 47 43
4 8 43 35 26 78
624
85.8
Eye diseases
2
5 13
8
5 10
6
4
6
8 11
5
83
11.4
Abscess and Ulcer
35 36 47 49 45 55 65 62 42 46 23 38
543
74.6
Wounds and Accidents
58 45 47 44 50 45 58 65 62 46 40 68
628
8 6 . 3
All other Causes
74 68 82 89 105 142 119 113 123 89 65 107 1,176 161.6
463 442 522 560 962 942 906 768 573 486 323 665 7,612
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
6 5 . 2 60.5 71.3 74.6 129.9 127.4 122.8 107.1 80.1 65.0 46.1 93.5
1 , 0 4 6 . 0