EUROPEAN TROOPS, 1875.
IV.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS composing the ARMY of the BOMBAY
PRESIDENCY during the Year 1875, and the prevalence of the principal Diseases in each Month of the Year.
MONTHS.
A v e r a g e S t r e n g t h .
A v e r a g e N u m b e r D a i l y S I c k . N u m b e r D a i l y S i c k p e r 1 , 0 0 0 o f S t r e n g t h .
N u m b e r o f D e a t h s .
D i e d p e r 1 , 0 0 0 o f S t r e n g t h .
CAUS ES OF DEATHS I N HOS P I TAL.
D i e d o u t o f H o s i p i t a l
S u i c i d a l D e a t h s .
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 r R e m i t t e n t . F e v e r C o n t i n u e d .
A p o p l e x y .
D e l i r u m T r e m e n s .
D y s e n t e r y . D i a r r h œa . He a p t i t 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 .
H e a r t D i s e a s e .
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 r v y .
A r o p h y a n d A n æ m i a .
W o u n d s o f A c c i d e n t s .
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s .
January
8,821 460 521
5
February
9,606 455 474
9
March
10,055 461 46.
17 1.9
1 1
1 1 1
3
2 11
4 1
April
10,554 536 50.
1 1 1.04
May
10,538 529 50.
15 1.42 4
4 1
June
10,482 539 514
30 286 9
5
1
7
2
2
1 2 1
July
10,459 610 553
August
10,297 632 614
September
10,218 613 62.
22 2.15 2
5 1 2
1 1 2
1
1
2
4 1
October
10,159 618 608
8
. 7 9
1
November
10,630 591 5.59
December
10,354 477 46.1
54 1 18 1 8
4 22 5 9 4 18 8 9 13
2 25 9 3
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year
10,184 546 53.6 213 20.92 5.30 . 10 1.77 1.28 2.16 .49 .88 .39 1.77
.79 .88 1.28
.20 2.45
1
.88 .29
CAUSES OF
ADMISSIONS.
•
NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH.
Total
Admitted •
during
the Year.
Admitted
per 1,000 of
•
Strength.
Died out
of each
hundred cases
treated.
Jan. Feb. March, April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Cholera
1 1 10
2
50
5
1
1
80
7.9 67. 50
Smallpox
1
1
.1 100. 00
Enteric Fever
2
2
7
4
2
1
4
4
2
28
2.7
64. 29
Fever, Intermittent
190 .168 163 188 199 305 347 476 505 497 617 264
3,919
384.8
.03
„ Remittent
13
10
15
8
1 1 25
8
41
44
41
54
39
309
133.2
.88
„ Continued
27
29
74
97
84 130
79 134 149 119
75
51
1,048
Apoplexy
4
7
12
22
1
5
5
3
2
1
64
6.3
34. 37
Delirium Tremens
6
2
4
6
4
8
12
7
5
7
2
63
6.2
7 . 9 4
Dysentery
11
13
21
27
20
20
22
49
19
18
43
32
295
29.0
3 . 0 5
Diarrhœa
29
23
57
59
38
81
88 162
69
39
37
38
720
70.7
•56
Hepatitis
2 9 28
36
28
23
44
38
37
34
34
36
44
411
40.4
4 . 3 8
Spleen Disease
7
7
6
9
12
6
11
5
4
5
1
6
79
7.8
Respiratory Diseases
48
75
82
70
44
47
60
65
47
44
83
38
703
69.0
1 . 1 4
Phthisis Pulmonalis
8
6
3
3
5
11
5
6
5
3
11
3
69
6.8
18. 84
Scurvy
1
1
1
3
.3
Rheumatism
2 4
38
48
40
47
42
39
54 52
30
31
31
470
46.7 . 5 5
Venereal Diseases
162 147 179 154 141 165 128 159
82 114 191 151
1,770
174.4
Eye Diseases,
10
28
22
27
23
19
27
20
29
26
14
260
955
-
Abscess and Ulcer
56 72 118
92
79 132
93 110
84 86 112
69
1,103
108.3
Wounds and Accidents
62
72 116 100
8 6 116 89 106
79
88 108
98
1,120
110.0
All other Causes
76 115 137 153 143 213 153 19.4 135 168 183 101
1,771
173.9
761 813 1,091 1,069 995 1,398 1,191 1,697 1,355 1,325 1,620 984
14,298
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
86.3
8 4 . 6 108.5 101.2 94.4 133.4 113.9 164.8 132.2 130.4152.4 95.0
1 4 0 4 . 0