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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—RAWAL PINDI, 1870-79.
CX.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying RAWAL
PINDI 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.
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 , 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 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 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
20,909 1,150 55.0 31
1 1
2
2
5 9 4 4
2
1
February
19,179 1,095 57.1 16
1 1 1 1
1
3 2 3
1 2
March 19,599 1,048 53.5 17
2
3 1
2
2
2 1
2
2
April
18,107 904 49.9 24
4 1 4 1 2
1
1 3
2
5
May
13,343 711 53.3 19
3
5
1
1 2 2
1
4
June
12,898 727 56.4 20
9
2 3 1
1
4
July
13,103 739 56.4 12
2
2
5 1
1
1
August
12,975 758 58.4 14
3
4
1
2
1 1
2
September
13,000 952 73.2 34
1 5
5
2 2
4 2
1
1
2
October
13,940 1,103 79.1 18
2
2
5 1
4
1
2
1
November
17,390 1,380 79.4 22
4 1
2 1
5
3 1
2
3
December
19,294 1,250 64.8 25
2
2
4
2
6 2 1
1 4
1
25 2 37 2 23 16
16 1 25
24 18 17
1 23 1 21
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 16,145 985 61.0 252 15.61 1.55 .12 2.29 1.55
. 9 9
. 9 9 . 0 6 1 . 5 5 1.49 1 . 1 2 1. 05
. 0 6 1 . 4 3 . 0 6 1 . 3 0
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
5
3
4
2 0
1
33
2 . 0
7 5 . 7 6
Smallpox
5
7
1
1
4
3
2 1
1 . 3
9 . 5 2
Enteric Fever
3
1
3
8
9 14 11
5
4
4
6
7
75
4.6
4 9 . 3 3
Fever, Intermittent
344 324 295
4 0 8
4 7 4
4 6 1
4 7 8
6 2 9 1,174 1,587 1,076
6 0 9 7,859
4 8 6 . 8
. 0 3
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
102 114 107 239 326 371 348 424 610 341 144 61 3,187 197.4
.72
Apoplexy
1
5
6
8
7 11
6
2
1
1
48
3.0 33. 33
Delirium Tremens
2
2
2
8
6
4
4
7
7
3
4
3
52
3.2
Dysentery
26 11 12 20 30 25 22 31 38 32 56 29
332
20.6 4. 82
Diarrhœa
55 35 32
7 8
1 0 7
5 9
6 7
9 4
8 3
4 6
4 4
4 8
7 4 8
4 6 . 3
. 1 3
Hepatitis
68 46 61
4 2 47
4 6
6 2
5 6
6 4
5 1
6 8
4 9
6 6 0
4 0 . 9
3 . 7 9
Spleen disease
12 18 13
7
1 7
1 5
1 2
1 4
7
3 6
3 5
2 7 213
1 3 . 2
Respiratory diseases
3 3 0 296 188 146 114 101 127 96 82 121 187 270 2,058 127.5
1 . 1 7
Phthisis Pulmonalis
13
6
7
4
3
4
4
4
3
4 20 12
84
5 . 2
2 0 . 2 4
Scurvy
1
1
1
1
4
. 2
Rheumatism
147 134 98 114 75 68 77 71 57 77 111 137 1,166
72.2
.44
Venereal diseases
349 286 318 288 163 109 110 103 122 147 219 311 2,525 156.4
Eye diseases
20 18 34
3 5 25
1 9
1 6
1 7 27
2 4 33 17
285
1 7 . 7
Abscess and Ulcer
141 107
1 0 7
9 6
7 2
7 5
1 0 6
9 7
6 8
7 5
1 1 5
1 1 8
1 , 1 7 7
7 2 . 9
W o u n d s a n d A c c i d e n t s .
208
1 9 5 212
2 1 1
1 3 3
1 1 4
1 3 4
9 4
1 3 2
1 5 0
1 6 2
2 8 6
2 , 0 3 1
1 2 5 . 8
All other Causes
228
2 1 5 2 2 1
2 6 2
1 8 9
1 6 7
2 2 7
2 0 5
1 9 1
1 9 6
2 4 6
2 2 6
2 , 5 7 3
1 5 9 . 4
2,054 1,815 1,715 1,973 1,805 1,659 1,820 1,952 2,696 2,897 2,531 2,214 25,131
Admi t t ed per 1, 000 of t he Aver age St r engt h i n each Mont h.
98.2 94.6 87. 5 109.0 135. 3 128.6 138.9 150.4 207.4 207.8 145.5 114.8
1 , 5 5 6 . 6