NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.
VIII.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS composing the PUNJAB IRREGULAR FORCE
during the Year 1876, 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 .
C A U S E S O F D E A T H S I N H O S P I T A L .
D i e d o u t o f H o s p i t a l .
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 .
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 .
Dr 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
11,193
4 8 6
4 3 . 4 17
1 2 3
9 1
1
February
11,009 425 38.6 12
1
1
8
1 1
March
10,877 341 31.3 6
2
1
2
1
April
9,992 285
2 8 . 5 19
12 1
1
2
1
1
1
May
9,532 288 30.2 2
1
1
June
9,541 276 28.9
2
1
1
July
9,413 259 27.5
5
1 1 1
1
1
August
9,573 346 36.1
5
1 1 1
1
1
September
9,501 483 50.8 8
1 3
2
1
1
October
9,763
6 3 8
6 5 . 4 25
17
1
2
1
2
2
November
10,646 712
6 6 . 9 21
3
3
1 2
6 1
1
1
2 1
December
11,235 555
4 9 . 4 11
2
1
5
3
29
2 1
11 17 2 9 2
1 33 2 2 1
5 2 9 5
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year
10,189 424
4 1 . 6 133 13.05 2.84.20
2 . 8 4
. 2 0 . 8 8 . 2 0
. 1 0 3. 23 .20 .20 .10 .49 .20 . 8 8 .49
CAUSES O
F 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.
Chol era
29
1
25
55
5.4 52. 73
Smallpox
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
.6 33. 33
Enteric Fever
1
1
1
3
.3 33. 33
Fever, Intermittent
455 352 241 283
4 6 8 322 343 858 1, 158 2,170 1,449 767
8,866
870.2
.12
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued
13 13
6 5 11
5 10 13
9 13 14
6
118
11.6 14. 41
Apoplexy
1
1
2
1
5
.5 40. 00
Dysentery
57 21 16 43 76 48 38 135 113 92 76 47
762
74.8 .96
Diarrhœa
18 10
6 27 30 18 24 96 56 38 37 30
390
38.3
Hepatitis
1
4
3
4
2
3
4
5
26
2.5
Spl een Di sease
17 20 10
3 14
4
7
6
9 13 24 17
144
14.1
.70
Respi ratory Di seases
126 120 67 54 49
1 8 10 32 29 29 51 123
708
69.5
4. 66
Phthisis Pulmonalis
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
3
1
13
1.3 15. 38
Dropsy
2
2
.2
Scurvy
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
5
17
1.7
Rheumatism
58
8 8 51 51 47 52 45 57 40 53 53 67
6 6 2
65.0
.38
Venereal Di seases
2 5 22 20 21 25 15 16 12 16 23 10 13
218
21.4
E y e D i s e a s e s 3 11 17 20 35 34 28 37 32 23 23
8
271
26.6
Abscess and Ulcer
82
9 0 58 57 87 86 125 168 109 112 102 96
1,172
115.0
Wounds and Acci dents
97 118 72 113 123 90 89 123 122 138 100 90
1,275
125.1
All other Causes
7 9 103 92
1 0 4 126 96 91 132 108 87 82 81
1,181
115.9
1,033 971 663 815 1,099 794 833 1,674 1,803 2,821 2,030 1,358
15,894
Admi t t ed per 1, 000 of t he Average St rengt h i n each Mont h.
92.3 88.2
6 0 . 9 81.6 115.3 83.2 88.5 1 7 4 . 9
1 8 9 . 8
289.0 190.7 1 2 0 . 9
1 5 6 0 . 0
Calculated on a Strength of 12,189, the Total Strength, absent as well as present, the Death-rate of the year is 14.69 per 1,000—the equivalent o f 1 7 9 d e a t h s .
T h e G a i n a n d L o s s S t a t e m e n t f o r t h e F r o n t i e r F o r c e f o r t h e y e a r i s a s u n d e r : —
Strength borne on the Regimental rolls on 1st January 1876
Additions received during the year
1 2 , 2 7 8 1 , 1 5 5
TOTAL
1 3 , 4 3 3
Deaths at head-quarters and in Detachments 133; died while on furlough and sick leave 46; invalided for discharge 319;
transfers given 18; discharged otherwise 645
1.161
Remaining on the rolls at the close of 1876
12,272