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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.
III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—GWALIOR FORTRESS; 1870-79.
LXXXII.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying GWALIO
R FORTRESS 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
Sick per
1,000 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 ma 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 .
Apopl exy.
D e l i r i u m T r e m e n s .
D y s e n t e r y .
Di ar r hœa.
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
3,308 170 51.4 3
1
1
1
February
3,437 182 53.0 8
1
4
3
M a r c h
3,466 172 49.6 3
1
1
1
April
3,472 168 48.4 5
1 1
1
1 1
May
3,467 182 52.5 2
1
1
June
3,460 185 53.5 8
1
1
4
1 1
July
3,480 188 54.0 10
6
1
1
1
1
August
3,461 218 63.0 9
5
l
1
1
1
September
3,465 239 69.0 7
1
4
1
1
O c t o b e r 3,384 242 71.5
6
1
1
1
3
November
3,273 182 55.6 4
1
1
1
1
December
3,313 164 49.5
4
1
1
2
12 1 3
4 4
2
5
1 6 8
9 1 13
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 3,416 191 55.9 69 20.20 3.51 .29 . 8 8 1.17 1.17
. 59 1.46 .29 1.76 2.34
2.64 .29 3.81
CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS.
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Tot al Admi t t ed
during the
Ten Years.
A d mi t t e d p e r 1 , 0 0 0
of St r engt h.
Died out
of each
hundred cases
treated.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MA Y . JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)
Cholera
1
8
7
1
17
5. 0 70. 59
Smallpox
1
1
2
4
1. 2 25. 00
Enteric Fever
2
1
4
1
1
9
2.6 33. 33
Fever, Intermittent
65 63 51 65 93 71 92 123 176 142
1 1 4
87 1, 142
334.3
Fevers, Remittent and Continued
12
6 14 32 26 23 19 23 55 50 19
1 3 292
85.5
1. 37
Apoplexy
3
5
6 3
1
2
20
5.9 20. 00
Delirium Tremens
2
3
1
3
1
10
2.9
Dysentery
1
4
5
6 9
9
8 33 28 13
9
4
129
37.8
1. 55
Diarrhœa
2
3
6
7
7
2 25 51 35
7
2
1
148
43.3
Hepatitis
2
5
8
7 17 2 4
16 17
9 13 10 10
138
40.4
3. 62
Spleen disease
1
2
3
2
4
1
1
4
2
2
22
6.4
Respiratory diseases
19 21 20 13 17 12 15
9
8 13 17 19
183
53.6
.55
Phthisis Pulmonalis
3
2
1
5
3
2
5
1
5
2
2
31
9. 1 25. 81
Scurvy
1
1
.3
Rheumatism
27 14 19 11 13 12 21 19 20 13 14
9
192
56' 2
.76
Venereal diseases
74 70 71 65 50 41 52 49 42 41 38 53
646 189.1
Eye diseases
9
6
7
9
4
6
4
9 15 17
6
5
97
28.4
Abscess and Ulcer
18 22 16 24 27 37 33 13 16 19 18 14
257
75.2
Wounds and Accidents
27 31 28 33 20 15 20 22 23 30 18 23
290
84.9
All other Causes
26 48 35 50 62 69 49 64 59 62 59 32
615 180.0
286 299 283 337 356 334 374 443 502 426 327 276 4,243
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
86.5 87.0 81.7 97.1 102.7 96.5 107.5 128.0 144.9 125.9 99.9 83.3
1 , 2 4 2 . 1