NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.
IX.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS of the REGULAR ARMY and of the PUNJAB
FRONTIER FORCE servi ng TRANS-INDUS duri ng t he Year1 8 7 6 ,
a n d t h e p r e v a l e n c e o f t h e p r i n c i p a l D i s e a s e s i n e a c h M o n t h
of the 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 .
CAUSES OF DEATHS IN HOSPITAL.
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 , 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 .
D i e d o u t o f H o s p i t a l .
January
14,443 598 41.4 23
2 3
1
14
1
1
1
February
14,742 565 38.3 15
1
1
1 1
1 1
March
13,868 459 33.1
1 1
2
1
6 1
1
April
12,925 364 28.2 20
12 1
1 2
1
1
1
1
May
12,232 363 29.7
4
1
1
1 1
June
12,203 352 29.0
4
1 1 1
1
July
12,071 344 28.5
6
1 2 1
1
1
August
12,333 492 39.9
6
1 1 2
1
1
September
12,336 715 58.0
9
1
4
2
1
1
October
12,644 979 77.4 46
35
2
3
1 1
2
2
November
13,876 1,042 75.1 28
2
6 4
1 2
6 1
1 1 1
2 1
December
14,237 711 49.9 15
3
1
1
6
1
3
49 2 1 16 19 5 10 4
1 47 3 3 1 2 5 3 10 6
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year
13,159 582 44.2 187 14.21 3.72 . 1 5 2.74 .38 . 7 6 . 3 0
. 0 8 3. 57 .23 .23
. 0 8 .15 . 3 8 . 2 3 . 7 6 .45
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
29
2 53
4
88
6. 7 55. 68
Smallpox
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
. 5 33. 33
Enteric Fever
1
1
.1
Fever, Intermittent
660 528 335 374 593 470 528 1,260 2,033 3,687 2,396 1,191
14,055
1068. 1
.11
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued
14 14
5
6 11
2
3
8
6
8 16
5
98
7. 4 19. 39
Apoplexy
1
2
1
2
3
1
1
11
.8 45. 45
Dysentery
76 39 28 56 92 56 50 185 159 169 136 68
1,114
84. 7
.81
Diarrhœa
25 28 12 41 42 27 38 125 67 89 79 41
614
46. 7
Hepatitis
1
3
2
3
2
4
1
2
18
1.4
Spl een Di sease
2 6
23 16
6
8
8 12
7 22 1 9
37 25
209
15. 9
. 4 8
Respiratory Diseases
166 199 109
75 67 24 24 46 48 38 68 138
1,002
76. 1
4.69
Phthisis Pulmonalis
4
1
1 2
1
1
2
2
14
1. 0 21. 43
Dropsy
2
2
.2
Scurvy
1
1
2
2
3
1
2
2
1
3
1
6
25
1. 9
8 . 0 0
Rheumatism
78 152 99 67 73 69 73 97 66 81 75 103
1,033
78.5
. 3 4
Venereal Diseases
35 32 22 20 26 17 24 22 16 19
8 11
252
19. 1
Eye Diseases
8 16 18 27 49 38 26 42 29 29 27 10
319
24. 2
Abscess and Ulcer
98 112 68 64 121 129 152 234 132 146 135 120
1,511
114. 8
Wounds and Accidents
110 158 84 134 161 136 115 152 139
1 4 8 149 119
1,596
121. 3
All other Causes
101 137 128 126 151 107 126 172 134 106 112 126
1,526
116. 0
1,402 1,443 930 1,032 1,403 1,089 1,180 2,359 2,855
4 , 5 9 8 3,237 1,966 23,494
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
97.1 97.9 67. 1 79.8 114.7 89. 2 97.8 191.3 231.4 363.7 233. 3 138.2
1 7 8 5 . 4