OF INDIA DURING THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD 1870-79.
there were 189 deaths from this cause, at the rate of 5.02 per 1,000. There
were 74 deaths among men who had served between two and three years in
India, whose aggregate strength was 31,478, a death-rate of 2.35. per 1,000
The death-rate from enteric fever among men between three and four years'
Indian service was 1.80 ; among those from four to seven years' service it
was .88 ; and among those of seven years' service and upwards it was .31 per
1,000. Hence the mortality from enteric fever among men of less than one
year's Indian service is much greater than the mortality from the same cause
among men who have served longer in the country, and it is very much greater
than the mortality among men of the age of 20 to 24, the period of life which
furnishes the greatest number of fatal cases of enteric fever as shown by the
statistics of these five years.
33. There were 318,493 admissions and 818 deaths from intermittent, re
-mittent and continued fevers during the
ten-year period 1870-79 in the European
Army of India, giving an admission-rate of
551.6, and a death-rate of 1.42 per 1,000 from these diseases. Of this number,
220,717 admissions and 631 deaths occurred in the Bengal Presidency, the
admission-rate being 607.3 and the death-rate 1.74 per 1,000. These fevers
are much more prevalent in the Punjab than in the other divisions of the Presid--
ency ; and in that Province the admission-rate from fevers as a whole has
risen from 741.3 during the ten-year period 1860-69 to 969.7 per 1,000 during
the ten-year period under review. The admission-rate is also greater in Meerut
and Rohilcund than it was during the former ten-year period, but in the other
provinces it has fallen.
34. In the Madras Presidency there were 29,413 admissions from fevers,
excluding enteric fever, and 69 deaths
during the ten-year period 1870-79, with
an admission-rate of 266.5, and a death-rate of .62 per 1,000. This is less than
half the admission and death-rates from the same diseases in the Bengal Presid
- e n c y . D u r i n g t h e t e n - y e a r p e r i o d 1 8 6 0 - 6 9 t h e a d m i s s i o n - r a t e f r o m f e v e r s i n
the Madras Presidency was 236.3 per 1,000.
35. There were 68,363 admissions and 118 deaths from the same fevers in
the Bombay Presidency during the period
1870-79, with an admission-rate of 659.9
and a death-rate of 1.14 per 1,000. The
admission-rate is slightly higher than that of the Bengal Presidency from the
same causes, but the death-rate is considerably less than in Bengal. During
the years 1863-69 the average admission-rate from fevers in Bombay was 277.1
p e r 1 , 0 0 0 .
36. During the ten-year period 1870-79 there were 12,009 admissions
from dysentery and 22,683 from diarrhœa
among the European troops of the Bengal
Presidency, being at the rate of 33.1 per 1,000 from the former and 62.4 per
1,000 from the latter disease. The deaths from dysentery in Bengal
during that period were 496, and from diarrhœa 44; the death-rate from
dysentery being 1.37, and from diarrhœa .12 per 1,000. This is a consi
- d e r a b l e i m p r o v e m e n t i n t h e a d m i s s i o n a n d d e a t h - r a t e s f r o m t h e s e d i s e a s e s
as compared with the preceding ten years. During the period 1860-69
the average admission-rate from dysentery in Bengal was 48.9, and the
death-rate 2.72 per 1,000, and the corresponding rates from diarrhœa were
109.4 and .75 per 1,000. As stated above, some cases which were former
- l y c a l l e d c h r o n i c d i a r r h œ a m a y n o w b e d e n o m i n a t e d e n t e r i c f e v e r , a n d t h i s
is rendered more likely by the fact that, during 1860-69, .69 per cent. of
the diarrhœa cases died, and during the period 1870-79 only .19 per cent.
37. In the Madras Presidency during 1870-79 the average admission-rate
from dysentery was 76.9, and the death
-rate 2.32 per 1,000 ; diarrhœa gave an
admission-rate of 648 and a death-rate
of .04 per 1,000 for the same period. Dysentery was thus much more
prevalent and more fatal in Madras than in Bengal during these ten years.
Diarrhœa occurred with equal frequency in both Presidencies, but was less
fatal in Madras than in Bengal. During the ten years 1860-69 the admission
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Fevers, other than enteric fever, in the Army of
India and in that of Bengal.
Fevers, other than enteric fever, in the Army of
Madras.
Fevers, other than enteric fever, in the Bombay
Army.
Dysentery and diarrhœa in the Army of J3engal.
Dysentery and diarrhœa in the Army of
Madras.