SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—DEESA, 1870-79.
CXLVI.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying DEESA
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 p e r
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 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 o 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 s .
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 a 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
7,206 335
45.9
8
1
2 1 3
1
February
7,360 296 40.2
6
1
2
1
1
1
March
7,221 315
43.6
8
2
1
1
1 2
1
1
April
6,606 281
42.5
6
1
1
2
2
May
6,478 259
4 0 . 0 10
1
1 4
1
1
1
1
June
6,843 311
45.4
16
1 1 1
1
1
1
1
July
7,618 422 55.4
15
5 3 1
1 1
2
2
August
7,628 425
55.7
11
2
1
1
1
3
2
1
September
7,599 450 59.2
16
5
2
2 1 3
1
1
1
October
7,538 479 63.5
9
1 2 1
1
3
1
November
6,545 391
59.7
14
1
1 1
1
3
2
2
3
December
6,052 268 44.3
5
1
1
2
1
3
10 2 7 24 3 5 1 12 1 8 6 17
1
16
8
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten
Years
7,065 353
50.0 124 17.55
. 42
1.42 1. 27 3.40 .42 . 7 1 .14 1.70 .14 1.13 . 8 5 2.41 .14
2.27
1 . 1 3
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 t reat ed.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. Aug. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)
41 479
69
3
592
83.8
Cholera
1
2
2
5
. 7
6 0 . 0 0
Small pox
1
1
2
. 3
Enteric Fever
1
3
2
1
9
4
1
2 1
3 . 0
4 7 . 6 2
Fever, Intermittent
146 138 137 107 111 142 250 243 320 720 462 269
3,045
431.0
.07
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
23
3
47
62 24
82 59
37
71
95
21
6
530
75.0
1.32
Apoplexy
1
3
11
32
11
2
3
63
8.9
38. 10
Delirium Tremens
4
2
1
2
1
3
4
5
1
23
3.3
13.04
Dysentery
14
4
13
6
7
7
13
15
27
15
7
5
133
18.8
3. 76
Diarrhœa
16
15
11
9
2
10
31
61
58
26 12
23
280
39.6
.36
Hepatitis
23
20
25
18
27
25
31
31
26
37
29
17
309
43.8
3. 88
Spleen disease
3
4
1
4
1
3
7
6
6
1
3
39
5 . 5
2. 56
Respiratory diseases
83
70
34
30
20
38
45
38
33
30
45
29
4 9 5
7 0 . 1
1. 62
Phthisis Pulmonalis
2
1
4
1
6
6
12
5
8
7
12
11
7 5
1 0 . 6 22.67
Scurvy
1
1
1
3
.4
33.33
Rheumatism
24 26
21
14 17
13
28
23
30
20
21
10
24
35.0
. 5 0
Venereal diseases
84 113 124 111
85
83 106
90
99
77
75
64 1,111
157.3
Eye diseases
21
20
23
16
15
16
20
32
36
15
12 11
237
33.5
A b s c e s s a n d U l c e r
4 6 45
43
35
48
86
90
9 0 67
50
31
26
6 5 7
93.0
Wounds and Accidents
3 8 39
46
37
50
31
40
37
43
38
26
30
455
64.4
All other Causes
7 8
65
64 79
88 104 138 139 111
97
65
44 1,072 151.7
607 568 597 531 517 727 1,360 920 957 1,242 820 548
9,394
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
83.2 77.2 82.7 80.4 79.8 106.2 178.5 120.6 125.9 164.8 125.3 90.5
1 , 3 2 9 . 7