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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.
Statistics of
fever.
Statistics of fever.—The most prevalent disease was, as usual fever, in most cases of a mild
intermittent type. The admissions under this head in 1875 are much less than in 1873 and 1874.
The 3rd Regiment L.I. shows the largest number of admissions from fever, then the 29th N.I.;
and then, in order of frequency, the 40th; G, H, and K Companies Sappers and Miners; the 1st
N.I.; and, lastly, the 1st Cavalry. The subjoined table exhibits the admissions from fever
alone and their ratio per cent. to average strength of the corps comprised in the preceding
table :—
Corps.
1875.
1874.
1874.
Admissions
from Fever
alone.
Ratio per
1,000 of
Average
Strength.
Admissions
from Fever
alone.
Ratio per
1,000 of
'
Average
Strength.
Admissions
from Fever
alone.
Ratio per
1 ,000 of
Average
Strength.
1st Regiment M.L.C.
. .
39
18.22
31
13.95
64
28.44
1st
do.
M.N.I..
..
111
1 8 . 1 0
..
..
..
..
3rd
do.
P.L.I...
..
268
38.96
567
8 4 . 1 2
735
104.84
29th do.
M.N.I.
..
236
33.71
788
115.54
228
32.24
40th do.
do.
..
224
32.94
399
55.03
377
61.10
G, H, and K Companies,
159
5 5 . 3 6
312
94.14
344
105.53
Sappers and Miners.
For the whole native force actually occupying Secunderabad the percentage of admissions to
average strength for fever alone was
—
In 1873
..
..
..
..
..
Oa
..
..
..
53.34
in 1874
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
71.51
In 1875
..
..
. . . .
. . .
. .
. . . .
..
3 1 . 9 5
The proportion borne by admissions for fever to admissions for all other causes
—
In 1873
. .
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.. I to 1 . 8 7
In 1874
..
.
. . .
. .
..
..
..
..
.. 1 to 1 . 74
In 1875
..
..
..
..
. . .. ..
..
..
.. 1 to 2.44
The proportion of deaths from fever to deaths from all causes
—
In 1873..
In 1874..
In 1875..
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0
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..
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1 to 5 . 00
1 to 3 . 11
1 to 4 . 66
F e v e r .
F e v e r
. — F e v e r o f a n i n t e r m i t t e n t a n d r e m i t t e n t t y p e o b t a i n s i n S e c u n d e r a b a d d u r i n g t h e
monsoon months, chiefly affecting the lines of one or more native regiments in each year.
During the past year fever was much less prevalent in the native corps than during 1873 or
1874. This favourable decrease in the number of intermittent fever cases may, perhaps, be
adduced to the smaller rainfall during the months of July, August, and September, the months in
which ague is the most prevalent ; as also to the effect of acclimatisation and, perhaps, in some
measure more especially in the 3rd Regiment L.I., as mentioned by the medical officer of this,
regiment, to the eradication " by invaliding " of weakly men to whom the climate of Secundera-
bad was obnoxious. In the Hyderabad Assigned Districts fever among the population exists every
year in direct proportion to the rainfall in the year ; . but such does not appear to have been the case
this year, as fever was much less prevalent than last year, although the rainfall was almost the
same in both years in the Assigned Districts.
Statistics of
Statistics of mortality.—The mortality among the native troops in Secunderabad was the
mortality.
same this as last year, viz ., 28.
The following table shows the percentage of deaths in hospital to strength and to admissions
for each corps :-
Deaths in
Hospital.
Percentage
of Deaths to
Stren g th.
t,
Percentage
of Deaths to
Admissions.
-
1st Regiment M.L.C. ..
2
0.93
1.75
1st
do.
M.N.I. ..
4
0.65
1.12
3rd do.
P.L.I.
..
6
0.87
0 . 9 9
29th do.
M.N.I.
..
3
0.31
0.62
40th do.
do.
..
9
1.32
1.59
Sappers and Miners
..
4
1.11
0.96
-Whole Native Force occupy-
ing Secunderabad.
28
0.86
-,1.10