WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF EUROPEAN REGIMENTS, 1876.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the CHILDREN of the EUROPEAN REGIMENTS composing the
ARMY of INDIA 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 a 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 i n e a c h M o n t h .
D e a t h - r a t e o f e a c h M o n t h 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 .
C h o l e r a .
S m a l l p o x . M e a s l e s .
H o o p i n g C o u g h .
S e a r l e t F e v e r .
E n t e r i c 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 F e v e r s .
A p o p l e x y . D e n t i u t i o n .
C o n v u l i s i o n s .
M e n i n g i t i s a n d H y d r o -
e p h a l u s .
T a b e s M e s e n t e r i e a .
P h t h i s i s P u l m o n a l i s .
D y s e n t e r y .
D i a r r h œ a .
A n æ m i a a n d A t r o p h y . B r o n c h i t i s a n d P n e u - m o n i a .
C r o u p a n d D i p h t h e r i a .
A l l o t h e r c a s e s .
January
11,802 227 19.2
34 2 . 8 8
1
3 7
2 1 1 1 10 4
4
February
11,950 227 19.0 29 2.43
3 1
1
2 6
3
2 5 3 1 2
March
12,281 267 21.7 43 3.50 1
8
1
3 8 1 3
4 5 8
1
April
12,134 330 27.2 59 4.86 2
5
4 14
4
6 11 2 5 3 3
May
11,739 372 31.7 83 7.07 1
4
7
15 14 5 2
7 16 6 2 2 2
June
11,782 367 31.1
58 4.92
2 1
3
8 14 2 2 1 1 9 6 3 2 4
July
11,766 393 33.4 61 5.18 3
2 1
3
7 9
4
3 13 9 3
4
August
11,780 519 44.1 105 8.91 8
1 1
2
15 16 4 8
6 26 9
4
5
September
11,877 472 39.7 74 6.23
1 1
3
2 1 8 1 5
3 21 7 1 1 1
October
12,008 379 31.6
54 4.50 4
1
2 5 1 5 11 1 1 2 1 9 2 2 3 4
November
11,907 309 26.0
36
3 . 0 2
7
2 5 2 2
3 7 5 2
1
December
11,550 208 18.0
28
2 . 4 2
1 1
2 6 3
2 3 5 2 2
19
27 5
1 4 33 1 87 118 19 36 4 31 121 69 42 14 33
Died per 1,000 of Strength.
For the year
11,332 340 98.6 664* 55.88 1.60 2.27 .42
. 0 9 3 . 1 1
. 0 9
7 . 3 2
9.93 1.60 3.03 .34 2.6110.18 5.81 3.53 1.18 2.77
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
treated.
Jan. Feb. March. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. IDec.
Cholera
1
3
2
3
12
5
26
2.2
73.08
Smallpox
2
1
3
.3
D e n g u e
1 0
6
1
2
19
1.6
. M e a s l e s
1 4
30
94 59 127
78
46
24
7
50
34 20
589
49.6
4.58
Hooping Cough
1
9
3
10
2
13
15
8
7
6
4
9
87
7.3
5.75
Scarlet Fever
1
1
1
1
4
.3
Enteric Fever
3
2
1
1
2
1
2
12
1.0
8.33
Intermittent Fevers
44
63
58
46 63
49
73
94 99 193 159
69
1,010
85.0
.40
Remittent and Continu-
...
ed Fevers
2 7 33
53
66 101 102
79
88
85 136 104 47
921
77.5
3.58
Apoplexy
1
3
1
6
.5
16.67
Dysentery
10
1 0
6
29 16
8
17
47
29
25 21
5
223
18.8
13.90
Diarrhœa
3 1 33
63
92 108
82 127 194 91
75
48
28
972
81.3
12.45
Hepatitis
2
1
2
2
2
4
2
3
1 8
1.5
Spleen Disease
1
1
5
4
1
1
3
1
18
1.5
Respiratory Diseases
45
67
38
57
57
44 34
42
44
76
40
33
577
48.6
9.71
Eye Diseases
46 32
52
83
6 4 58 108 509 282 107
22
12
1,375
115.7
Anæmia and Debility 72
76
62
77
97
82
76 100
6 6 89 70
59
926
77.9
7.45
Tubercular Diseases
6
7
9
9
13
3
9
15
10
6
8
4
99
8.3
40.40
Meningitis and Hydro-
cephalus
1
1
6
3
7
1
1
4
3
27
2.3
70.37
Convulsions
1 0
8
14
18 19
20
9
23
12
22
9
7
171
14.4 69.00
Dentition
31
25
31
46
62
42
47
78
53
31
39
19
504
42.4
17.26
Abscess and Ulcer
12
13
13
9
33
17
22
18
18
26
6
8
195
16.4
3.77
I n j u r i e s
2 2 18
15
18
11
20
8
29
16
14
11
9
191
16.2
All other Causes
44
51
47
48 48
45
36
44 36
38 23
30
490
41.2
419 483 563 677 831 675 715 1,343 872 911 606 368
8,463
Admitted per 1,000 of tile Average Strength in each Month.
35.5 40.4 45.8 55.8 70.8 57.3 60.8 114.0 73.3 75.9 50.9 31.9
712. 3
* Excluding 36 deaths, which appear in the Regimental Returns, of still-born children and premature children who survived their birth for a short time.
1876.
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