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REPORT ON THE SICKNESS AND MORTALITY OF THE EUROPEAN ARMY
rate from dysentery in Madras was 84 . 9, and from diarrhœa 86 . 3 per 1,000,
so that, as compared with the previous ten-year period, taking the two
diseases together, there has been a reduction of 30 per 1,000 during the
period 1870-79.
38.
The admission-rate from dysentery in the Bombay Presidency during
the years 1870-79 was 27 . 6, and from
diarrhœa 60 . 8, and the death-rates
were
.
98 and . 17 per 1,000 respectively.
During the period under review dysentery was thus less prevalent and less
fatal in Bombay than it was either in Bengal or in Madras. The admission-
rate from dysentery in the Bombay Presidency during the years 1863-69 was
19 . 1, and from diarrhœa 45 . 7 per 1,000. Both the diseases have thus increased
in frequency during the last ten years.
39.
In the European Army of India 28,780 admissions and 1,267 deaths
were recorded under " Hepatitis " during
the ten-year period 1870-79. This gives
an admission-rate of 49 . 8 and a death-rate
of 2
.
19 per 1,000. In the Army of Bengal the admission-rate was 47 . 1 and
the death-rate 2 . 04 per 1,000. In the preceding ten-year period the admission-
rate was 59 . 2 and the death-rate 3 . 31 per 1,000. A considerable reduction has
thus taken place in both the admission-rate and the death-rate, and the diminu-
tion has been pretty evenly distributed over the different sections of the
Presidency.
40. There were 7,417 admissions and 349 deaths from hepatitis in the
Dysentery and diarrhœa in the Army of
Bombay.
Hepatitis in the Army of India and in the Army
of Bengal.
Hepatitis in the Madras Army.
European Army of Madras during the
years 1870-79, an admission-rate of 67.2.
and a death-rate of 3
.
16 per 1,000—much higher rates than those for Bengal.
During the immediately preceding ten-year period the admission-rate from
hepatitis was 70 . 2, so that very little diminution has taken place in the frequency
of this disease.
41. During the period 1870-79 there were 4,234 admissions and 177
Hepatitis in the Bombay Army.
deaths from hepatitis in the European
Army of the Bombay Presidency, the
admission-rate being 40 . 9, and the death-rate 1
.
71 per 1,000—slightly less than
the corresponding-rates for Bengal. For the years 1863-69 the average admis-
sion-rate from this disease in Bombay was 26
.
6 per 1,000. Hepatitis thus
appears to have been more prevalent of late in the Bombay Presidency—an
experience opposed to that of Bengal and Madras.
42. In the European Army of Bengal there were 30,578 admissions and 455
Respiratory diseases in the Bengal Army.
deaths from respiratory diseases during
the years 1870-79, an admission-rate of
84
.
1, and a death-rate of 1 . 25 per 1,000. Of the 455 deaths, 123 occurred in 1879,
and 85 of these took place among the troops on active service in Afghanistan.
Excluding the troops on active service in Afghanistan, and for 1879 taking
account only of the troops in cantonments, the number of admissions for the
ten-year period in Bengal was 29,326, and the number of deaths 370, an
admission-rate of 82 . 9 and a death-rate of 1 .05 per 1,000.
43.
As might be expected, the admission and death-rates from these diseases
are much higher in the Punjab than in
any of the other provincial areas of the
Presidency. In the Punjab the average admission-rate for these ten years was
100
.
7 and the death-rate 1 . 59 per 1,000.
44.
That cold is not, however, the only cause of the greater frequency of re-
spiratory diseases in the Punjab is shown
by the fact that the hill stations of the
Bengal Presidency give an admission-rate
of 82 . 6 and a death-rate of
.
84 per 1,000—lower rates than those for the Punjab ;
and yet the hill stations have a lower temperature than the plains of the Pun-
jab. Malarial fevers are much more prevalent in the Punjab than in the other
provincial areas of the Bengal Presidency, and certain forms of pneumonia
seem to have an intimate connection with malarial fevers. During the period
Respiratory diseases very prevalent in the Punjab.
Respiratory diseases closely connected with mala-
rial fevers.