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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—MURREE HILLS, 1870-79.
CXXXIV.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS stationed in the
MURREE HILLS 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. D i e d p e r
1 , 0 0 0 o f
S t r e n g t h .
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 .
Chol er 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
437 17 38.9
February
455 22 48.4
1
1
March
498 22
4 4 . 2
April
2,551 65 25.5
2
1
1
May
9,355 357 38.2 12
3
4
2
1
1
1
June
10,019 431 43.0 17
4
1 1 1
1 1
1
3
2 1 1
July
11,412 550 48.2 13
5
1
1
1
1
4
August
11,483 570 49.6 28
19
1
1 1
1
2
1
1
1
September
11,433 550 48.1 13
1 1
3
1 2 1
1 1 2
October
8,151 450 55.2
5
1
1
1
1
1
November
2,464 160 64.9 2
1
1
December
543 18 33.1
1
1
31
9 2 4 1 2 6
8 1 5 7 1
7 2 8
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 5,733 268 46.7 94 16.40 5.41
1.57 1. 05
. 1 7 .35 1.05
1.40 .17 .87 1.22 . 17
1.22 .35 1 . 4 0
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
T o t a l
A d m i t t e d
d u r i n g t h e
T e n Y e 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 1872)
Cholera
5
7 5
2 4
41
7.2 75. 61
Smallpox Enteric Fever
6
3
6
1
4
20
3.5 45. 00
Fever, Intermittent
3
6
2 40 294 367 408 424 369 209 47
6 2,175 379.4
. 0 9
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
5 61 56 119 84 116 38
4
483
84.3
.83
Apoplexy
1
1
2
1
5
.9 20. 00
Delirium Tremens
2
3
4
3
12
2.1 16. 67
Dysentery
1 28 21 24 20 19
6
1
120
20.9
5 . 0 0
Diarrhœa
1 4 38 30 88 84 60 22
4
1
332
57.9
Hepatitis
3
2
3
3 31 31 41 46 56 32
9
1
258
45.0
3 . 1 0
Spleen disease
5
5
7 14
8
5
4
2
50
8.7
2 . 0 0
Respiratory diseases
9 23
9
1 4 86 89 70 88 92 80 36
8
604 105.4
.83
Phthisis Pulmonalis
3
5
5
5
5
2
1
26
4.5
3 . 8 5
Scurvy
3
1
2
1
7
1.2
Rheumatism
4 4
1 9
5 9
6 8 68 68 70 42 11
2
406
70.8
.45
Venereal diseases
8
7 10 51 140 177 196 186 167 120 40
7 1,109 193.4
Eye diseases
1
1
5 20 16 17 19 17 10
2
1
109
19.0
Abscess and Ulcer
5
2
3 15 50 45 52 54 50 36
9
7
328
57.2
Wounds and Accidents
3
1
7 25 96 101 101 103 129 89 28
6
689 120.2
All other Causes
4
2
5 26 112 121 184 150 167 113 25
7
916 159.8
40 48 41 203 1,034 1,150 1,400 1,369 1,333 807 218 47 7, 690
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
91.5 105.5 82.3 79.6 110.5 114.8 122.7 119.2 116.6 99.0 88.5 86.6
1 , 3 4 1 . 4