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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—NEEMUCH, 1870-79.
CXL.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
NEEMUCH during the TEN YEARS from 1870 to 1879, and the Prevalence of the Principal Diseases in each Month.
MONTHS.
Average
Strength for each
Month of
the Ten
Years.
Av e r a g e Nu mb e r Da i l y S i c k .
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 .
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
4,097 211
51.5
6
2
2
1
1
February
3,918 193 49.3
1
1
March
4,271 210 49.2
5
1
1
1
2
April
4,410 217 49.2
4
1
1
2
May
4,409 234 53.1
2
1
1
June
4 , 4 0 1 242 55.0
5
2
3
July
4,391 261
59.4
6
6
August
4,368 308 70.5
29
25
1
1
1
September
4,310 438 101.6 26
9
6 1 1
2 2
2
1
1
2
October
4,297 623 145.0
17
5
3
1
2
3
1
1
1
November
4,126 530 128.4 15
7
2
3 1
1
1
December
4,120 329 79.9
8
2
1
2
1
1
1
55
16 1 8 10 3 8
8
1
4
4
6
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 4,260 316 74.2 124 29.11 12.91
3.75 2.11 2.35 .71
1 . 8 8
1 . 8 8 .23 .94
.94
1.41
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)
Cholera
1
2 7
31
16
5
10
72
16. 9
76.39
Smallpox Enteric Fever
2
2
2
11
2
4
23
5.4
6 9 . 5 7
Fever, Intermittent
164
80
77 154 190 203 2 4 4
380 758 975 798 484
4,507 1, 058. 0
.02
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
9
23
34
63
55
55
36 119 295 259
85
22
1,055
247.7
.76
Apoplexy
2
2
2
3 2
4
3
1
1
20
4.7
50. 00
Delirium Tremens
2
3
1
1
4
5
2
3
2
1
24
5. 6
12.50
Dysentery
7
3
6
4
4
10
21
15
22
9
4
105
24. 6
7.62
Diarrhœa
21
9
9
18
16
17
48
70
50
66
71
31
426
100. 0
Hepatitis
11
15
14
10
17
17
22
26
33
30
27
14
236
55. 4
3 . 3 9
Spleen disease
3
2
1
1
3
1
2
6
3
2
24
5. 6
Respiratory diseases
31
21
27
20
14
10
21
17
10
25
46
47
289
67.8
.35
Phthisis Pulmonalis
2
1
2
2
4
3
5 1
20
4. 7
Scurvy Rheumatism
14
21
21 2 4
27
22
29
15
20
15
16
17
241
56. 6
.29
Venereal diseases
91
85 122
78
66
72
62
61
55
60
48
71
871
204.5
Eye diseases
10
7
8
4
11
4
3
3
9
6
2
1
68
16. 0
Abscess and Ulcer
21
23
38
45
43
39
41
41
31
34
29
25
410
96.2
Wounds and Accidents
36
40
28
47
44
44
61
35
37
35
27
35
469
110.1
All other Causes
48
54
41
53
57
48
71
62
61
60
74
64
693
1 6 2 . 7
4 6 8
385 427 527 550 5 4 2
666
8 9 3 1,412 1,609 1,251 823
9,553
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
114.2 98.3 100. 0 119.5 124.7 123. 2 151.7 204. 4 327.6 374. 4 303.2 199. 8
2 , 2 4 2 . 5