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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—MEEAN MEER, 1870-79.
CII.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
MEEAN MEER during the TEN YEARS from 1870 to 1879, and the Prevalence of the Principal Diseases in each Month.
MONTHS.
Aggregate Strength for eachM o n t h o f
the Ten
Years.
Average Number
Daily
Sick.
Number Daily
Sick per
1,000 of
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 .
Ch o l e r a .
S ma 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 m 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 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
9,809 905
92.3 13
3
2
5 1
1
1
February
10,293 812 78.9
8
1
3
1
2
1
March
10,670 731
68.5 13
2
1
1
2
1
1
1 2
2
April
9,215 572
62.1
13
1
5
1 1
1
1 1
1
1
May
9,037 592
65.5 38
24
4
1
1 2
2
1 1
2
June
8,890 709 79.8
28
3
7
1 9 1 1
2
21
1
July
8,854 778
87.9
19
1
2
11
1
1
1
1
1
August
8,796 814
92.5 106
81
4 11 1 1
2
1
2
2
1
September
8,679 873 100.6
20
6
2
3
2
2
1
2
2
October
8,673 982 113.2
25
2
1 3
3 1
3
2 3
5 1 1
November
8,968 1,079 120.3
20
1 1 3
3
3
3
2
1
3
December
9,604 1,165 121.3
21
2
3
2 1 2
4
4
3
118 1 26 4 20 34 3 20 2 21
16 10 16
4 18 1 10
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten
Years
9,291 834 89.8 324 34.87 12.70 .11 2.80 2. 58 3.66 .32 2.15 .21 2.26
1.72 1.08 1.72
.43 1.94 .11 1 . 0 8
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted
during the
Ten Years.
Admit ted
per 1,000
of
Strength.
Di ed out of each
hundred cases
treated.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1972)
Cholera
2
28
3
1 129
5
3
1 7 1 18.4
69. 01
Smallpox
1
1
1
5
.5
20. 00
Enteric Fever
3
4
9
9 10
3
1
1
3
3
3
49
5.3
53. 06
Fever, Intermittent
9 1 5
715 599 409 602 813 999 1,180 1,821 2,223 2,411 1,892 14,579 1,569.1
.03
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
12
21
50
90 137 153 145 211 163
67
58
41
1,148
123.6
1. 74
Apoplexy
2
3
15
39 24
1
4
1
89
9.6
38. 20
Delirium Tremens
1
1
2
3
4
5
7
8
7
7
1
1
47
5.1
6. 38
Dysentery
20
13
27
26
25
16 12
35
45
49
42
27
336
36.2
5. 95
Diarrhœa
46
32
39
84 75
41
86 192 103
71
87
84
940
101.2
.21
Hepatitis
33
36
36 30
30
35
41
45
37
34
39 50
446
48.0
4. 71
Spleen disease
8
11
12
2
7
11
6
11
8
17
29 23
14. 5
15.6
Respiratory diseases
211 159 102
71
76
72
54 56
39
70 148 228
1,286
138.4
1. 24
Phthisis Pulmonalis
10
7
3
3
8
8
6
9
9
9
9
19
100
10.8
16. 00
Scurvy
2
2
4
2
2
3
15
1.6
Rheumatism
81
64 93
6 0
7 3
5 3
6 8 59
54
62
69
62
798
85.9
. 5 0
Venereal diseases
200 178 230 160 131 160 120
88 76 105 107 134 1,689
181.8
Eye diseases
7
19
27
24 17
8
18
17
19
21
11
21
209
22.5
Abscess and Ulcer
83
75
88
52
79
69 111 114 72
67
6 6 62
938
100.9
Wounds and Accidents
75 81 100 108
77
63
77
57
77
65
82
91
953
102.6
All other Causes
129 143 158 160 157 186 234 217 181 146 186 154
2,051
220.7
1,832 1,561 1,571 1,295 1,539 1,721 2,030 2,457 2,720 3,024 3,349 2,895 25,994
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
186.8 151.7 147.2 140.5 170.3
1 9 3 . 6
229.3 279.3 313.4 348.7 373.4 301.4
2,797.8