JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1874.
II.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in LOWER BENGAL and in ASSAM
during the Year 1874, 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 .
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
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 .
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
16,299 626 38.4
76
2
1 4
25 7
1 8 1 12 9
4 1 1
February
16,394 592 36.1
51
4
3 3
16 1
2 8 1 4 3
2
4
March
16,336 609 37.3
59
8
5 2 1 13 4
1
7
5 6 1
2 4
April
16,612 641 38.6
77
16
7 3
21 7
2 6
5 2
3 1 4
M a y 16,864 651 38.6
61
3
2 3 4 2 18 3
4
1 3
4
5
June
17,335 658 37.9
81
12
4 5
20 8
5 1 16 1
3 3 3
J u l y 17,390 697 40.1
82
18 1
2 1
24 6
2 13 1 8 2
2 2
A u g i s t
17,420 758 43.5
67
2
4
1 3 1 7
6
6 3
4
3
September
17,543 751 42.8 109
49
1 1 2 3 25 3 1 1 9 1 2 1
6
4
October
17,093 715 41.9
72
5
1 3 5 3 25 4
1 10
9 2
2
2
November
16,962 696 41.0 70
4
2 5
27 10
3
7 3
3 1
5
December
1 6 , 8 1 3 687 40.9 79
4 1
2 1
34 9
2 6
9
4 2 5
127 2 4 37 35 10 279 69 1 12
8 5 5 96 32 1 35 14 40
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year
16,922 673 39.8 884 52.21 7.50 . 1 2 .24 4 . 2 6
.59 20.57 .06 .71 5.02 .30 5.67 1. 89 .06 2.06 .83 2.36
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
4
11
30
41
13
33
66
29 126
15
10
6
384
22.6 33.07
Smallpox
2
3
2
1
1
1
1
11
.7
18.18
Enteric Fever
1
3
1
1
1
7
.4
5 7 . 1 4
Fever, Intermittent
597 424 632 609 592 658 830 974 832 841 912 744
8,645
510.9
.43
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued
14
13
7
13
20
16
11
22
36
35
26
14
227
13.4 1 5 . 4 2
A p o p l e x y
Dysentery
202
1
185 226 285
3
302 290 356
1
357
2
261
3
246 200 240
1 0
3,150
. 6
186.1 100.00 5.13
Diarrhœa
253 237 396 446 341 328 354 335 279 238 225 203
3,635
214 8
Hepatitis
1
1
1
1
3
2
3
8
3
1
24
1.4
4 . 1 7
Spleen Disease
28
20
15
14
17
20
35
30
25
27
19
22
272
16.1
4 . 7 8
Respiratory Diseases
55
59
60
51
63
48
41
49
65
41
39
50
626
37.0 1 3 . 4 3
Phthisis Pulmonalis 14
8
17
13
6
20
6
5
5
5
13
9
121
7.2 7 9 . 3 4
Dropsy
27
17
22
15
15
19
19
16
18
17
8
11
204
12.1
1 5 . 6 9
Atrophy and Anæmia 30
30
37
21
23
26
46
43
40
43
39
38
416
24.6
8.11
Scurvy
11
2
7
5
3
1
3
3
8
3
1
2
49
3.0
2 . 0 4
Rheumatism
38
31
52
44
50
47
48
70
25
47
40
36
528
31.2 . 96
Venereal Diseases
26 27
32
29
23
30
26
39
25
26
38
30
351
20.7
Eye Diseases
4
4
14
9
17
27
32
21
28
23
20
14
213
12.6
Abscess and Ulcer
112 134 116 156 167 139 148 145 132 123
89
89
1,550
91.6
Wounds and Accidents
40
45
74 58
66
65
82
66
77
6 0 54
58
745
44.0
All other Causes
320 271
257 228 224 201 213 200 230 216 188 179
2,727
161.1
1,776 1,520 1,997 2,041 1,956 1,971 2,319 2,409 2,224 2,013 1,923 1,746
23,895
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
109.0 92.7 122.2 122.9 115.9 113.7 133.4 138.3 126.8 117.8 1 1 3 . 4
103.8
1412.1
1874
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