SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—HYDERABAD, 1870-79.
CLII.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
HYDERABAD 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 S i c k per
1,000 of
Strength
Number of
Deaths.
Died per
1,000 of
'Strength.
CAUSES OF DEATHS I N HOSPI TAL.
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
3,633 173
47.6
2
1
1
February
3,605 140
38.8
2
1
1
March
3,657
1 4 5 39.6
2
1
1
April
4,015 153
3 8 . 1
3
1
1
1
May
3,985 154 38.6
2
1
1
June
3 , 9 1 0 171
43.4
9
7
1
1
July
3 , 9 5 2 170 43.0
7
1 3
1 2
August
3,017 177
4 4 . 6
2
2
September
3,891 197
50.6
3
3
October
3,792 213 56.2
5
1 1
1
2
November
3,425 210
70.1
4
1
1
1
1
December
3,310 238 71.9
5
1
1
1
1
1
7
3 1 1
1
3
3 2
4 2 10
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years
3 , 7 6 4
181 48.1
46 12.22
1.86 . 8 0 2.92
. 2 7 .80
. 8 0
. 5 3
1.06 .53 2.65
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH :MONTH. Total Admitted duri ng the
Ten Years. Admitted per 1,000
of
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred cases treated.
JAN. FEB.
M A R .
A P R I L
MAY JUNEJULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1572 and 1873)
3
12
9
24
6 . 4
Cholera Smallpox
1
1
.3
Enteric Fever
1
2
1
1
2
1
8
2 . 1 87.50
F e v e r , I n t e r m i t t e n t
206
9 9 91
94 100 106
121 113 219 389
5 6 9 574
2,681
712. 3
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
10
16
19
19
1 7
4 2
3 3
3 1
3 3 4 2
35
5 4
3 5 1
9 3 . 3
.85
Apoplexy
1
1
3 28
5
2
40
1 0 . 6 27.50
Delirious Tremens
2
1
2
1
2
1
4
3
1
17
4 . 5
Dysentery
9
7
8
6
1
7
8
8
1 0
7
7
7
8 5
2 2 . 6
Diarrhœa
14
5
9
14
8
10
14
24
1 4
12
5
6
135
3 5 . 9
Hepatitis
4
4
4
7
12
2
5
6
5
9
3 5
66
1 7 . 5
Spleen disease
1
3
2
1
1
1 2
1 1
2 . 9
Respiratory diseases
35
21
12
12
1 0
1 5
1 3
1 1
8
1 2
9
2 5
1 8 3
4 8 . 6
1 . 6 4
Phthisis Pulmonalis
3
1
2
1
2
1
2
2
2
3
19
5.0
1 0 . 5 3
Scurvy
1
1
.3
Rheumatism
10
13
18
24
16
1 1
17
16
9
9
8
9
160
4 2 . 5
. 3 8
Venereal diseases
61
44 28
49
46
50
51
64
49
3 8 31
30
541
1 4 3 . 7
Eye diseases
6
5
6
4
5
3
4
5
1
7
1
47
12.5
Abscess and Ulcer
24
26
28
42
40
51
50
48
33
32
18
23
415
110.3
Wounds and Accidents
32
32
48
40
35
29
43
33
26
45
19
23
411
109.2
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s
42
54 45
77
63
85
9 9
71
77
75
32
48
768
204.0
461 333 316 398 364 442 468 434 492 684 753 819
5,964
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
126.9
9 2 . 4 86.4 99.1 91.3 112.2 118.4 1 0 9 . 4
126.4 180.4 219.9 247.4
1 , 5 8 4 . 5