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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS-MHOW, 1870-79.
CXLIV.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
MHOW 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 Si ck.
Number Daily S i c k p e r
1 , 0 0 0 o f S t r e n g t h . 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
12,886 829 64.3 9
1
1
1
1
2
1 1 1
February
13,216 796 60.2 7
1
1
1
2
2
March
13,080 693 53.0 10
5
1
3
1
April
13,476 750 55.7 12
2
2
2 1
1
1
2
1
May
13,559 802 59.1
9
1
1
2
2
1
2
June
13,518 763 56.4 16
1
2
1 5
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
July
13,564 864
6 3 . 7 7
1
1
2
1
1
1
August
13,537 1,017
7 5 . 1
1 6
6
1 1 2
1
3 1
1
September
13,453 1,196 88.9
2 9
7 1 5
2
6
1 1
4 1
1
October
13,289 1,157 87.1 17
8
1 1
1
1
5
November
13,030 953 73.1 12
1
1 1
3
4
2
December
12,629
8 0 9 64.1 11
2
1
1
1 1
1
2 1 1
10
26 2 13 9 1 7 1 21
4 6 8 1
27 5 14
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 13,270 886
6 6 . 8 155 11.68 .75
1.96
1 . 1 3
.68 .08 .53 .08 1.58
. 3 0 .45 .60 .08
2.03 .38 1 . 0 5
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.
J AN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. Y. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1873)
6 5
11
.8
Cholera
3
1
1
10
15
1.1 66. 67
Small pox
1 1
2
.2
Enteric Fever
2
3
3
4
3
1
4 10
9
4
2
47
3.5 55. 32
Fever, Intermittent
357 302 296 346 412 372 504 1,255 2,047 1,946 960 517 9,314, 701.9
.02
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
23 51 99 138 127 72
7 0
1 1 5
1 6 0
1 1 9
6 2 49 1,085
8 1 . 8
1 . 2 0
Apoplexy
4
1
7
5 11
2
1
4
2
2
1
40
3.0 22. 50
Delirium Tremens
5 3
1
5
5
2
6
3 10
3
2
4
49
3.7 2. 04
Dysentery
1 5 11 28 20 17 20 26 54 30 24 27 14
286 21.6 2. 45
Di arrhœa.
34 39 34 54 37 30 77 111 52 50 43 35
596 44.9 .17
Hepatitis
38 50 59 63 89 88 81 73 74 66 53 39
773 58.2 2. 72
Spleen disease
8
9 11 15 17 ]3 21
6
1 0 14
5 15
144
1 0 . 8
Respiratory diseases
1 3 0 130 137 129 84 59 57 39 34 59 84 110 1,052
79.3
.38
Phthisis Pulmoualis
9
3
9 3
6
5
9 10
8
8
6
7
83
6.3
9. 64
Scurvy
1
2
2
1
6
.5
Rheumatism
6 7 66 60 57 72
6 9 102 89 55 50 49 55
791
59.6
.43
Venereal diseases
253 255 211. 281 262 236 243 199 191 205 183 202 2,721 205.0
Eye diseases
23 29 32 45 26 18 28 25
2 3 26
2 4 35
334
2 5 . 2
Abscess and Ulcer
105 116 127 132 126 100 114 86
9 5
1 0 5
1 1 6 97 1,319 9 9 . 4
Wounds and Accidents
127 125 120 147 146 100 136 83 89 106 101 168 1,448 109.1
All other Causes
212 166 162 198 217 156 254 218 207 208 199 186 2,383 179.6
1,403 1,362 1,392 1,646 1,653 1,355 1,731 2,383 3,099 3,006 1,927 1,537 22,499
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
109.3 103.1 106.4 122.1 121.9 100.2 127.6 176.0 230.4 226. 2 147.9 121.7
1, 695. 5