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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
X.—WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE EUROPEAN ARMY, 1870-79.
CCCXXVIII.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the CHILDREN of the EUROPEAN ARMY of the BENGAL
PRESIDENCY in each YEAR and for the TEN-YEAR PERIOD, 1870-79.
YEAR.
Average
Strength
in each
Year.
Average
Number
Daily
Sick.
D a i l y S i c k p e r 1 , 0 0 0 o f
S t r e n g t h .
Numbe r
of
Deaths.
DIED PER
1,000.
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
A l l C a u s e s .
E x c l u d i n g C h o l e r a .
C h o l e r a .
S m a l l p o x . M e a s l e s .
H o o p i n g C o u g h .
S c a r l e t F e v e r . 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 n t i t i o n . C o n v u l s i o n s .
M e n i n g i t i s a n d H y d r o -
c e pha l us .
T a b l e s M e s e n t e r i c a
P h t h i s i s P u l m o n a l i s .
D y s e n t e r y .
D i a r r h œ a .
A n æ m i a a n d A t r o p h y . B r o n c h i t i s a n d P n e u -
mo n i a .
C r o u p a n d D i p h t h e r i a .
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s .
1870
...
5,644
237 42.0
461 81.68 80.09
9 ... ...
3 ... ... 32 50
1 50 53 12 15
2 19 101 69 17 10 18
1871
. . .
6,039
302 50.0
520 86.11 85.11 6 ... 29 16 12 1
9 46
4 39 61 22 18 ... 13 108 58 28 15 35
1872
. . .
6,560
311 47.4
741 112.95 96.34 109
3 13
2
4
1
2 52
2 66 95 19 30
2 26 143 86 39 17 30
1873
...
6,753
278 41.2
459 67.97 67.23 5
5 10
6
1 ...
6 44 3 38 71 14 21
1 21 94 53 27 18 21
1874
. . .
6,953
265 38.1
428 61.56 61.27 2 ... 23
3 ...
2
9 26
3 49 67 11 15
2 17 84 44 32 15 24
1875
. . .
7,017
251 35.8
538 76.67 69.40 51 ... 33
6 ... ...
3 33 12 45 75
1 1 15 ... 20 117 54 30 14 19
1876
. . .
6,602
224 33.9
395 59.83 58.01 12 ... 21
4 ...
. . . 3 22
1 40 69 10 18
3 16 81 47 24 7 17
1877
. . .
6,183
157 25.4
276 44.64 44.64 ...
1
2
4 ...
...
1 19 2 31 60
6 12
. . . 10 57 23 27
3 18
1878
. . .
5,773
201 34.8
468 81.07 77.261 22
6 13
3 ...
3
6 28 2 59 67 16 25
. . .
17 76 57 30 19 19
1879
. . .
5,196
191 36.8
454 87.37 84.87 13 ... 60
3
4
3 15 26
1 43 59 13 10
... 20 67 49 25 21 22
229 15 204 50 21 10 86 346 31 460 677 134179 10 179 928 540 279 139 223
Died per 1,000 of Strength.
TEN YEARS ...
62,720 2,417 38.5 4,740 75.57 71.92 3.65
. 2 4 3.25
. 8 0 .33 .16 1.37 5.52
. 4 9 7.33 10.79 2.142.85
. 1 6 2.85 14.80 8.61 4.45 2.22 3.56
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH YEAR.
Total Ad-
mitted
during the
Ten Years.
Admitted
per 1,000
of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred
cases
treated.
1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879.
Dengue
. . . ...
...
430
3
. . .
. . .
17
1
...
...
451
7.2
...
Cholera
...
9
9
143
6
3
66
15
...
33
15
299
4.8
76.59
Smallpox
. . .
2
3
8
21
17
2
. . .
11
20
9
93
1.5
16.13
Measles
...
36
368
205
78
457
450
457
160
145
558
2,914
46.5
7.00
Hooping Cough
...
34
163
33
70
83
113
46
106
30
13
691
110
7.24
Scarlet Fever
. . . ...
71
13
4
2
. . .
2
5
2
17
116
1.9
18.10
Enteric Fever
...
. . .
5
8
2
6
1
4
2
16
9
53
. 8
18.87
Intermittent Fever
. . . 956
703
764
886
866
766
689
370
697
896
7,593
121.0
1.13
Remittent and Continued Fevers
...
598
506
833
662
831
551
590
424
621
435
6,051
96.5
5.72
Apoplexy
. . .
5
7
8
6
8
18
5
3
4
4
68
1.1
45.59
Dysentery
. . . 153
110
182
131
106
163
111
79
121
94
1,250
19.9
14.32
Diarrhœa
...
679
749
906
700
553
841
630
436
551
453
6,498
1 0 3 . 6
1 4 . 2 8
Hepatitis
. . .
9
14
10
9
3
8
6
7
5
10
81
1.3
...
Spleen disease
...
6
25
12
27
18
27
12
8
18
36
189
3.0
. . .
Respiratory diseases
. . . 200
267
300
320
392
425
339
337
380
324
3,284
52.4
12.73
Eye diseases
...
792 1,204
904 1,098 1,305 1,096
942
581 1,150
634
9,706
154.8
...
Anæmia and Atrophy
...
402
538
852
616
735
661
556
383
630
606
5,979
95.3 9.03
Tubercular diseases
...
59
60
66
52
44
50
53
43
55
45
527
8.4
35.86
Meningitis and Hydrocephalus
. . .
22
27
33
20
18
19
16
14
17
15
201
3.2
66.67
Convulsions
...
61
7 0 120
101
9 6
107
102
8 4
98
87
926
1 4 . 8
7 3 . 1 1
Dentition
...
273
229
2 5 6 330
293
247
272
234
318
221
2,673
42.6
17.21
Abscess and Ulcer
...
6 9
82
78
9 3
121
1 0 8
88
75
89
71
874
13.9
5.01
Injuries
...
69
92
88
94
112
99
96
90
81
78
899
1 4 . 3
All other Causes
...
158
295
244
226
315
272
252
219
188
239
2,408
38.4
4,592 5,597 6,496 5,555 6,384 6,090 5,300 3,672 5,269 4,869
53,824
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Year.
813.6 926.8 990.1 822.6 918.2
867.9 802.8
593.9 912.6 937.0
8 5 8 . 2