NATIVE TROOPS, 1874.
IX.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS of the REGULAR ARMY and of the PUNJAB
FRONTIER FORCE serving TRANS-INDUS during the Year 1874, and the prevalence of the principal Diseases in each Month of
t he Year .
(This Table contains the entire of the figures shown in the Statement for the Punjab Frontier Force, with the exception of the statistics of Abbottabad, as well as the
statistics of the Regiments of the Regular Native Army serving beyond the Indus already incorporated in the General Statement for the Punjab.)
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 .
C A U S E S O F D E A T H S I N H O S P I T A L .
Di ed out of Hos pi t al .
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 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 s .
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 . W o u n d s a n d A c c i d e n t s .
A l l o t h e r C a u s e s .
January
14,146 675 47.7 25
1
3
1
14 2 1
2
1
February
14,104 590 41.8 17
5
2
9
1
March
14,242 474 33.3 13
3
2
3 1
4
April
12,831 324 25.3
9
1
1
3 2
2
May
1 1 , 5 7 3 318 27.5
7
1 1
1
1 1
1 1
June
11,605 343 29.6
5
1
3
1
July
11,893 401 33.7
6
1 1
1
1
1 1
August
11,915 513 43.1
1
1
September
11,966 783 65.4
4
1
1
1 1
October
12,112 1,171
9 6 . 7
4
1
1
1
1
November
12,675 1,144 90.3 16
2
1 1
2 8 1
1
December
13,580 871 64.1 39
2 5
1
26 1
1
2 1
1 14 18 1 5 2
2
6 9 3 6 1
1
18 5
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year
12,720 634 49.8 146 11.48
.08 2 . 5 2
. 0 8 .39 . 1 5
. 1 5 5.43 .24 .47 .08
. 08 1.42 . 39
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 Smallpox
1
1
1
3
. 2 3 3 . 3 3
Enteric Fever
Fever, Intermittent
602 380 508 363 435 541 633 983 2,799 3,440 2,372 1,582
14,638
1150.8
.09
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued
23 19 15
7 14 11
3
5
9 14 21 17
158
12.4 1 1 . 4 0
Apoplexy
1
1
2
.2 5 0 . 0 0
Dysentery
60 42 24 33 39 57 63 73 148 103 112 100
854
67.1 .53
Diarrhœa
32 25 32 31 34 38 57 41 51 26 41 66
474
37.3
Hepatitis
3
3
3
5
2
7
3
4
30
2.4
Spleen Disease
13
9 16 12
7
8
8 10 20 17 25 41
186
14.6 1 . 0 7
Respiratory Diseases
176 125 129 43 35 26 46 27 28 35 71 181
922
72.5 7 . 4 8
Phthisis Pulmonalis
5
3
3
1
2
5
1 2
2
24
1.9 2 5 . 0 0
Dropsy
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
9
.7 11.11
Scurvy
4
3
4
2
4
2
2
5
5
3
6
2
42
3.3
Rheumatism
78 96 55 35 38 44 54 46 55 46 53 113
713
56.0
.36
Venereal Diseases
27 24 26 10 33 27 28 22 27 18 10 27
279
21.9
Eye Diseases
10 17 15 12 14 36 42 30 35 24 25 21
281
22.1
Abscess and Ulcer
127 105 70 70 86 130 261 208 166 111 139 146
1,619
1 2 7 . 3
Wounds and Accidents 134 102 110 102 122 141 193 178 137 127 153 202
1,701
133.7
All other Causes
103 141 151 120 96 97 137 118 130 83 78 169
1,423
111.9
1,399 1,094 1,159 844 965 1,161 1,540 1,750 3,612 4,051 3,108 2,675
23,358
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
98.9 77.6 81.4 65.8 83.4 100.0 129.5 146.9 301.9 334. 5 245.2 196.9
1836.3
1874.