MYSORE DIVISION.
57
Regiments.
Number
of
Cases.
Ratio per Mille
of Success to
Cases.
21st Regiment N.I. ..
404
443.07
23rd do. W.L.I. ..
194
556.70
36th do.
N.I. ..
130
800.
27th
do.
do.
..
118
669.49
30th do.
do.
106
921.53
Sappers and Miners
..
59
406.78
28th Regiment N.I.
..
42
90416
The medical officer of the 4th Regiment L.C.
reports that vaccination has been kept up in
the families by the Municipal Vaccinators, from
which I deduce that no operations have been per-
formed by the medical subordinates attached to the
regiment. The remaining regiments are in the
margin ranged in the order in which the subordi-
nates attached to them have exerted themselves to
protect the families and followers from small-pox
by vaccination.
STATEMENT No. XIII.
Mortality amongst Families.
Divisions.
Stations.
Corps.
Estimated
Population exclusive o
Troops.
Died.
Mortality
per 1,000 of
Population.
Adults. Children Total.
M y s o r e D i v i s i o n .
Bangalore ..
Head-Quarters, Sappers
and Miners.
23rd Regiment W.L.I. ..
36th
do.
N.I. ..
1,729
1,459
1,543
1 6
15
14
3 4
37
1 9
5 0
52
3 3
28.92
35.64
2 1 . 3 9
French Rocks. 30th
do.
do. ..
1,450
13
18
31
21.38
Mercara .. 28th
do.
do. ..
1,630
28
44
72
44.17
Ceded Districts. .. Bellary ..
4th
do.
L.C. ..
788
9
4
13
16.50
21st
do.
N.I. ..
1,693
21
33
54
31.90
27th
do.
do. ..
955
9
25
34
35.60
Total ..
11,247
125
214
339
30.14
This table is an interesting one, but probably it is only approximately correct. It gives the
mortality among the families and followers in this administrative circle as 30.14 per mille, the
corresponding ratios for 1874 and 1873 being respectively 21.24 and 39.24.
These tables, which I trust will become more and more trustworthy as means are taken by
commanding and medical officers to secure accuracy,
are interesting " as affording some clue to the
death-rate among the native community generally."
At the same time it must be remembered that, as
a rule, the sanitary condition of native lines is
more satisfactory than that of most native towns
and villages, hence we may expect that they will
exhibit a mortality somewhat less than the casualty
ratio of the general native population. The stations
marginally noted give the ratios of mortality
according to a descending scale.
Passing over the case of the 4th Light Cavalry, which is exceptional, it is to be noted that the
mortality ranges from 21.38 per mille at the French Rocks to 44.17 per mille at Mercara.
Attention is solicited to the widely different ratios of mortality yielded by the 36th and 23rd
Regiments, which occupy contiguous lines at Bangalore, the former showing a mortality per mille
of 21.39, the latter of 35.64. The former regiment has lost 19, the latter 37 children. The
influence of station and situation upon the life of children is given in the following table :-
Stations.
Regiments.
Strength.
Number of
Casualties
among
Children.
Ratio per
Mille of
Deaths.
Mercara
..
.. 28th Regiment N.I.
..
..
..
754
44
58.36
Bangalore ..
.. 23rd
do. W.L.I.
..
..
..
763
37
48.49
Do.
• .
.. Sappers and Miners
..
..
..
795
34
42.77
Bellary
..
.. 21st Regiment N,I.
..
..
..
811
33
40.69
Do.
..
.. 27th do.
do.
..
..
..
409
25
61.12
Bangalore ..
.. 36th do.
do.
..
..
..
719
19
26.43
French Rocks
.. 30th do.
do.
..
..
..
745
18
24.16
Bellary
..
.. 4th do.
L.C.
..
..
..
420
4
9.52
15
Stations.
Regiments.
Ratio of
Mortality.
Mercara
.. 28th Regiment N.I. ..
44.17
Bangalore .. 23rd
do. W.L.I. ..
35.64
Bellary
, . 27th
do.
N.I. ..
35.60
Do.
.. 21st
do.
do.
..
31.90
Bangalore .. Sappers and Miners ..
28.92
Do.
.. 36th Regiment N.I. ..
21.39
French Rocks. 30th
do.
do.
..
21.38
Bellary
.. 4th
do. L.C. ..
16.50