SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—MUTTRA, 1870.-79.
LXXVI.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying MUTTRA
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 Dai l y
Sick per
1,000 of
Strength.
Number of
Deaths.
Died per
1,000 of S t r e n g t h .
C AUS E S OF DE AT HS I N HOS P I T AL .
W o u n d s a n d A c c i d e n t .
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 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
3,042 144 47.3
2
1
1
February
3,590 175 48.7
2
1
1
March
4,354 227 52.1
2
1
1
April
4,121 202 49.0
16
2 1 5
1 2
2
1
1
1
May
4,096 228 55.7
15
1
1
8
1
3
1
June
4,086 225 55.1
7
1 3
1
2
July
4,082 220 53.9
4
2
1
1
August
4,064 274 67.4
3
1
1
1
September
4,035 293 72.6
8
5
1
1
1
October
4,072 289 71.0
7
4
1
1
1
November
3,517 243 69.1
3
1
1
1
December
3,099 158 51.0
3
1
1
1
4 1 18
4 15 2
9
1 5 1
7
5
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten
Years
3,846 223 58.0 72 18.72 1.04 .26 4.68 1.04 3.90 .52
2.34 .26 1.30 .26
1.82
1. 30
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)
15 109
124
32. 2
Cholera
3
3
2
8
2 . 1
5 0 . 0 0
Smallpox
1
2
3
. 8
3 3 . 3 3
Enteric Fever
1
1
7
7
1
3
1 2
4
2
1
3 9
1 0 . 1
4 6 . 1 5
Fever, Intermittent
18
5
12
32 31
31 130 212 120 200 169
52
1,012
263. 1
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
8
31
30
69 85
83
51
51
63
52
35
11
569 148. 0
. 7 0
Apoplexy
2
3
13
19
5
3
1
1
4 7
1 2 . 2
3 1 . 9 1
Delirium Tremens
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
8
2 . 1
2 5 . 0 0
Dysentery
21
1
1
3
3
4
14
9
14
3
6
79
20.5
Diarrhœa
12
5
16
10
10
15
17
3 3 22
1 1
3
6
1 6 0
4 1 . 6
Hepatitis
6
13
11
19
20
23
11
10
2 4
2 0
1 6
1 2
1 8 5
4 8 . 1
4 . 8 6
Spleen disease
4 2
2
1
2
5
2
2
1
4 2
2 7
7 . 0
Respiratory diseases
17
14
28
19
23
9
11
3
1 0
1 2
1 7
2 1
1 8 4
4 7 . 8
. 5 4
Phthisis Pulmonalis
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
3
1
1
13
3.4
7. 69
Scurvy
. 4 6
Rheumatism
22
18
20
21
2 0
1 0 25 16
1 1
1 8
6
1 5
2 0 2
5 2 . 5
Venereal diseases
6 4 92
95
69
75
64 62
1 0 1
6 0
4 5
3 9
4 1
8 0 7
2 0 9 . 8
Eye diseases
6 1
6
10
11
4
5
4
6
6
5 2
6 6
1 7 . 2
Abscess and Ulcer
24 39
48
35
30
27
4 6
2 9
3 9 35
3 1 21
4 0 4
1 0 5 . 1
Wounds and Accidents
33
31
35
26
34 24
25
18
22
3 3
2 7
2 6
3 3 4
8 6 . 9
All other Causes
27
43
52
55
59
49
75
70
41
61
76
42
650
169.0
264 301 358 384 427 361
4 7 4 572 459 626 435 260 4,921
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
86.8 83.8 82.2 93.2 104.2 88.4 116.1 140.7 113.8 153.7 123.7 83.9
1 , 2 7 9 . 5