cxiv SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—MOOLTAN, 1870-79.
XCVIII.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying MOOLTAN
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
Sick per
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 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
8,823 553 62.7 13
1
1 1
1
5
1
1 1 1
February
8,618 493 57.2
6
1
2
1
1
1
March
8,877 478 53.8
8
2
1
3 1
1
April
8,327 450 54.0
5
1
1
1
2
May
8,247 484 58.7
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
June
8,201 543
6 6 . 2 11
5 2
1
2
1
July
8,176 600 73.4 12
1
1 5
1
1 1
2
August
8,158 607 74.4 18
2
3
1 4
1
2
2
2
1
September
8,146 584 71.7
9
1 6
1
1
October
6,966 514 73.8 10
1
4
1
1
2
1
November
7,177 509 70.9 18
1 6
1
2
1
2
4
1
December
7,592 454 59.8
5
2
1 1
1
2
6 3 21 14 3 8
9
14 7
9
1 13 1 10
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 8,109 522 64.4 121 14.92
. 2 5
. 7 4 2.96 1.73 .37 . 9 9
1.11 1.73 .86 1.11
.12 1.60 . 12 1.23
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted the
Years.
d u r i n g t h e Te n Ye a r .
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
3
3
. 4 66. 67
Smallpox
1
1
2
1
5
.6
Enteric Fever
2 2
1
4
3
1
13
1. 6
46. 15
Fever, Intermittent
263
1 6 4
1 8 1 185 221 327 376 402 561 846 527 2 3 6
4, 289
528. 9
.07
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
31
27
45
84 146 174 232 165 303 238 120
59
1, 624
200. 3
1 . 2 9
Apoplexy
1
12
23
9
2
47
5. 8
29. 79
Delirium Tremens
1
2
2
3
4
4
2
1
3
1
2
25
3. 1
12. 00
Dysentery
12
11 10
23
13
19 18
16 20
40
19
16
217
26. 8
3 . 6 9
Diarrhœa
15
12
16
42
26
20
18 47
31
32
11
19
289
35. 6
Hepatitis
32
36
43
55
30
42 43
31
36 29
28
29
434
53. 5
2 . 0 7
Spleen disease
4
5
6
2
3
5
8
5
2
4
2
4 6
5. 7
Respiratory diseases
9 1 95 124 77
80
57
59 65
37
48
52
71
856
105. 6
1 . 6 4
Phthisis Pulmonalis
2
9
5
5
7
5
8
7
10
13
1 5
6
92
11. 3
9 . 7 8
Scurvy
2
1
1
2
2
1
9
1.1
Rheumatism
41
69
70
69
50
59
56 42 34 32
25 34
581
71. 6
. 4 6
Venereal diseases
128 138 113 170 121 117 134 122
72
73
70
9 0
1, 348
166. 2
Eye diseases
8
6
17
5
13
7
10
21
13
5
9 10
127
15. 7
Abscess and Ulcer
5 7 42
44 40
42
65 126 123
71
44
32
54
740
91.2
Wounds and Accidents
70 42
69 85
62
50
58 49 42
37
36
72
672
8 2 . 9
All other Causes
6 8 113 113 120
98 127 153 171 127
81
73 102
1, 346
1 6 6 . 0
824 774 862 969 919 1,092 1,330 1,281 1,362 1,529 1,019 802 12,763
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
93.4 89.8 97.1 116.1 111.4 133.2 162.7 157.0 167.2 219.5 142.0 105.6
1 , 5 7 3 . 9