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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—PESHAWAR, 1870-79.
CXVI.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
PESHAWAR 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 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
18,472 1,120 60.6 16
1 1
1
1 4 3 2
3
February
19,544 1,014 51.9
5
1
1
1
1
1
March
20,130 1,006 50.0 12
1
1
1 4 2
2
1
April
18,181 960 52.8 11
4
1
1
1 1 1
2
May
14,342 979 68.3 31
4
12
6
2 1
2
2
2
June
13,679 989 72.3 88
44
17
5 10 2 5
2
2
1
July
12,692 911 71.8
6 4
19
6
5 23 1
3
1
1
3
2
August
11,975 802 67.0 30
10
2 1 5 3 1 2
1
2
3
September
11,681 970 83.0 40
23
1 1 6 3
1 2 1
2
October
11,537 1,224 106.1 91
70
2 4 1
1
4 2 4
3
November
14,311 1,485 103.8 27
2
1 3 2
2
1
7 2 3
2
2
December
16,747 1,384 82.6 21
1
2
4
1
4 1 3
1 2 1 1
172 2 44 8 37 40 4 20 1 7
27 16 22
1 23 1 11
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 15,274 1,070 70.1 436 28.55 11.26 . 13 2.88 2 . 9 4
2.62 .26 1.31 . 07 . 4 6 1.77 1.05 1.44
.07 1.50 .07 .72
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted
during the
Ten Years.
Admitted per
1,000 of
Strength.
Died out
o f e a c h
hundred
treated.
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)
Cholera
5
54
28
12
29 101
229
15.0 7 5 . 1 1
Smallpox
2
3
3
2
2
1
13
. 8 1 5 . 3 8
Enteric Fever
4
4
6
8
19
28
13
6 5
2
4
2
101
6.6 4 3 . 5 6
Fever, Intermittent
1,210 797 614 642 387 370 451 619 1,682 3,482 4,332 2,510 17,096 1,119.3
.05
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
95 90 150 698 2,070 1,454 1,380 1,045. 1,546 1,317 779 339 10,963 717.8
. 3 4
Apoplexy
2 2
16 58
11
5
1
95
6.2 4 2 . 1 1
Delirium Tremens
2
1
10
7
4
7
9
9
4
4
1
5
63
4.1
6 . 3 5
Dysentery
40
18
37
36
39
36 31
30
37
39
34 37
414
27.1
4 . 8 3
Diarrhœa
39
36
47 117 142 126
8 8 86
67
88
61
60
957
62.7
.10
Hepatitis
3 5 57
60
39
41
57
63
45
34 29
62
55
581
38.0
1 . 2 0
Spleen disease
2 6 26
23
11
1
9
11
9 5
9
20
41
191
12.5
Respiratory diseases 338 285 229 151
83
62
74 69
48 68 166 315
1,888
123.6
1.43
Phthisis Pulmonalis
16
6
12
8
9
4
10
9
4
10
25
18
131
8.6
1 6 . 7 9
Scurvy
1
2
1
2
6
.4
Rheumatism
83
93 123
87
72
53
58
51
40
23
61
67
811
53.1
. 4 9
Venereal diseases
325 281 315 260 169 125
87 88
78
75 100 206 2,109
138.1
Eye diseases
2 6 24 33
26
28
18
28
16
37
12
20
16
284
18.6
Abscess and Ulcer
110 103 124 126
70 70 109
88
60
42
72
77 1,051
68.8
Wounds and Accidents
163 172 199 176 114 88
83
79
68
41
78 126 1,387
90.8
All other Causes
208 194 275 244 209 217 267 272 159 161 259 246. 2,711
177.5
2,723 2,190 2,262 2,638 3,470 2,794 2,851 2,544 3,908 5,504 6,074 4,123 41,081
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
147.4 112.1 112.4 145.1 241.9 204.3 224.6 212.4 334.6 477.1 424.4 246.2
2 , 6 8 9 . 6