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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—DAGSHAI, 1870-79.
CXXIV.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying
DAGSHAI 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 p e r
1,600 of
Strength.
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 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
5,675 223 39.3
6
1 1
3
1
February
6,354 265 41.7
3
2 1
March
7,947 354 44.5
6
1
1
2
2
April
9,052 471 52.0
5
2
2
1
May
9 , 3 7 4 515 54.9
5
1
1
1
1 1
June
9,969 525 52.7
2
1
1
July
10,034 538 53.6 14
1
4
1
1
2
2
3
August
10,162 515 53.6 34
16
6
5 1
2 1
1 1 1
September
10,157 471 46.4
8
1
3
1
1
2
October
9,444 402 42.6
9
2
2
2
1
1
1
November
6,360 289 45.4
2
2
December
5,273 238 45.1
3
2
1
20
17 2 4
3
10 1 10 10 1
1 1 13 1 3
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 8,317 403 48.5 97 11.66 2.41
2.05 .72
.36
1.20 .12 1.20 1.20 .12
. 1 2.12 1.56 .12 .36
CAUSES OF ADMI SSI ONS.
NOMBER 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)
Cholera
1
25
1
3
30
3. 6 66. 67
Smallpox Enteric Fever
1
1
1
3
1
6
14
9
4
40
4.8
4 2 . 5 0
Fever, Intermittent
83
63 113 251 311 291 311 267 198 113
82
61
2,144
257.8
.09
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
10
11
22
38 25
50 62
35
54
30
3
9
349
42.0
1.15
Apoplexy
1
1
1
3
.4
Delirium Tremens
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
11
1.3
Dysentery
7
11
10
17
11
12
11
16
8
12
10
7
132
15.9
2 . 2 7
Diarrhœa
19
12
9
29
32
23 105 123
52
20
8
19
451
54.2
H e p a t i t i s
8
9
7
15
20
26
23
26 18
18
12
5
187
22.5
5 . 3 5
Spleen disease
2
3
1
2
1
1
1
4
15
1.8
6 . 6 7
Respiratory diseases
92 105
94 86 67
41
37
36 36 42
31
48
715
86.0
1 . 4 0
Phthisis Pulmonalis
1
1
2
3
2
3
7
4
8
7
2
2
42
5.0
2 . 3 8
Scurvy
1
1
1
3
.4 33.33
Rheumatism
41 44
57
82
90
95
80
65
50
43
42
43
732
88.0
. 5 5
Venereal diseases
74 112 176 177 154 118 146 156 116 106 109
88
1,532
184.2
Eye diseases
4
6
9
14
13
7
9
8
10
14
6 11
111
13.3
Abscess and Ulcer
46
52
34
69
38
54
46 47
37
47
35
20
525
63.1
Wounds and Accidents
49
71
88
81
82
72
56 78
65
63
43
36
784
94.3
All other Causes
62
38
60
91 106 96 100
86
86
77
52
46
900
108.2
498 539 691 956 958 892 1,001 987 749 603 437 395
8,706
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
87.8 84.8 87.0 105.6 102.2 89.5 99.8 97.1 73.7 63.9 68.7 74.9
1 , 0 4 6 . 8