JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1873.
I.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION of the BENGAL PRESIDENCY during
the Year 1873, 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 a m a l l p o x .
E n t e r i c F e v e r .
T y p h u s 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 o r 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 ...
63,135
1,831
29.0
298
4.74 3
. . .
. . .
. . . 7 27 1 95 25
. . . 3 85 2 16 4
. . .
11 5 14
February ...
63,558
1,779
28.0
178
2.80 2 1
. . . 3 3 21 2 42 21
1 2 51
. . . 4 3 1 9 3 9
March ...
63,431
1,759
27.7
197
3.09 11
. . .
. . . 23 5 22 2 36 16
. . . 3 44 1 9 2
. . . 8 1 14
April ...
64,034
1,834
28.6
175
2.73 20 4 1 10 7 8 6 33 13
1 3 20 4 13 5
. . . 8 4 15
M a y . . .
64,765
1,746
27.0
161
2.49 10 4
. . . 4 10 18 4 35 10
. . . . . . 26
. . . 12 2
. . . 5 7 14
June ...
66,518
1,739
26.1
158
2.38 16 2
. . . 2 6 21 19 26 12
. . . . . . 16
. . . 14 1
. . .
6 4 13
July ...
68,058
1,830
26.9
120
1.76 20
. . .
. . . . . . 1 7 3 24 10
. . . 1 14 4
6
. . .
. . . 8 9 13
August ...
69,488 2,360
33.9
258
3.81 79 1
2 . . . 2 13 2 53 28
2
. . . 20 5 13 2
. . . 14 5 17
September ...
70,282
2,934
41.7
275
3.80 29
. . . . . .
. . . 5 12 3 121 29
1 2 18 3 14 2
. . . 9 6 21
October ... 70,524
3,064
43.4
348
4.96 3
. . .
. . . . . . 7 35 4 131 44
1 4 43 7 16 6 1 12 2 32
November ...
7 0 , 6 6 4 2,557
36.2
358
5.05 6
. . . 1
. . . 9 39 6 116 36
2 1 57 3 22 4 1 22 1 32
December . . .
69,982
2,277
32.5
362
5.17
. . . . . .
. . .
. . .
4 32 2 112 47
. . . 3 75 6 17 6
. . . 18 2 38
199 12 4 42
6 6 255*
5 4 824 291
8 22 469
3 5 156 37 3 130
4 9
2 3 2
Died per 1,000 of the Av
e
rage Strength.
For the year
. . . 67,037
2,143
31.9
2,888 43.08 2.97 .18
5 . 4 7
.81 16.63 .12
. 3 3 7.00 .52 2.33 .55 .04 1.94
. 7 3
3 . 4 6
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
2
29
46
38
48
57
175
41
6
19
4
469
7.0
42.43
Smallpox ...
6
13
24
36
21
21
7
1
1
4
8
13
155
2.3
7. 74
Enteric Fever ...
. . .
. . .
1
. . .
. . .
. . .
1
2
. . .
1
. . .
. . .
5
. 1
. . .
Fever, Intermittent ...
1,626
1,248
1,426
1,814
1,820
1,589
1,660
3,621
4,469
3,819
2,658
1,866
27,616
411.9
.24
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued ...
1 7 9 234
274
139
112
128
70
101
272
625
264
151
2,549
38.2
11.65
Apoplexy ...
2
1
3
7
8
48
6
2
3
3
6
. . .
89
1.3
60.67
Dysentery ...
515
299
393
466
413
406
590
1,022
1,124
817
658
643
7,346
109.6
7.66
Diarrhœa ...
445
313
527
478
462
601
780
907
848
745
582
536
7.224
107.8
Hepatitis ...
6
7
2
5
4
4
3
5
4
4
4
5
53
.8
15.09
Spleen Disease ...
6 2
37
35
45
43
42
61
45
55
37
49
49
560
8.3
3.93
Respiratory Diseases ...
474
315
247
172
179
168
138
182
158
230
311
378
2,952
44.0
15.88
Phthisis Pulmonalis ...
2 3
17
14
12
20
26
21
10
16
24
17
32
232
3.5
67.24
Dropsy ...
1 4
11
12
11
14
16
11
13
15
19
13
31
180
2.7
20.56
Atrophy and Anæmia ...
74
88
38
58
51
47
247
113
117
149
184
134
1,300
19.4
10.00
Scurvy ...
12
11
15
13
20
25
19
14
39
29
10
5
212
3.2
1.41
Rheumatism ...
9 9
78
84
78
102
104
111
95
92
103
95
93
1,134
16.9
1.66
Venereal Diseases ...
6 0
6 4
82
75
83
66
92
82
95
73
53
70
895
13.3
Eye Diseases ...
25
34
65
101
97
82
70
91
132
91
53
34
875
13.0
Abscess and Ulcer ...
441
432
514
553
571
794
974
722
616
576
572
613
7,378
110.0
Wounds and Accidents ...
204
222
228
249
295
303
333
211
234
196
199
186
2,860
42.7
All other Causes ...
4 3 4
497
483
470
503
552
503
523
426
409
427
600
5,827
86.9
4,705
3,923
4,496
4,828
4,856
5,070
5,754 7,937
8,757
7,960 6,182
5,443
69,911
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
74.5
61.7
70.9
75.4
74.9
76.2
84.5
114.2 124.6 112.9
87.5
77.8
1042.9
Contagious Fever in the Peshawur Jail in spring, and in the Rawulpindee Jail in the last quarter of the year, accounts for 83 of these deaths. The outbreak of
Typhus was confined to the Rawulpindee Jail.