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TABLE XVI.
INDIAN OFFICERS AND INDIAN OTHER RANKS— contd.
NORTHERN COMMAND.
T able showing ratios per 1,000 of the strength of admissions into hospital,
deaths, numbers invalided and constantly sick, during the year 1938.
Diseases.
Admissions. Deaths.
Invalids. Constantly
sick.
Specific diseases due to infection or infestation.
Common cold
. . .
7.6
. . .
. . .
0.14
0.00
0.0
Diphtheria . . .
. . . . . .
16. 9
0.0
0.61
Dysentery . . .
. . .
0. 8
0.09
. . .
0.11
Enteric fevers (inclusive of typhoid, para A, B & C, and
enteric group).
0.0
. . .
. . .
0.00
Erysipelas . . .
4.2
. . .
. . .
0.10
Influenza . . .
Malaria
. . .
132.8
0.05
0.05
3.17
. . .
1 • 3
0.07
Measles. . .
. . .
Meningococcal infection
. . .
0.3
0.14
0 .02
0.04
Mumps. . .
4..7
. . .
. . .
0 .24
6.0
0 . 6 3
0.02
0.50
Pneumonia . . .
Pyrexia of uncertain origin . . .
0.0
. . .
. . .
0.00
Rheumatic fever . . .
0.9
. . .
0.02
0.06
7.0
. . .
. . .
0.14
Sandfly fever . . .
Scarlet f ever
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
Smallpox . . .
0.2
. . .
. . .
0.01
1.6
0.14
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary
. . .
1. 32
0.20
0.05
Other . . .
0.4
0.20
0.09
Venereal diseases
Gonorrhœa
2.1
. . .
0.02
0.23
1. 4
Soft chancre
. . .
. . .
0.11
. . .
2.1
0.02
Syphilis
. . .
0.20
. . .
Other V. D.
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
5 .3
0. 19
Other diseases due to infection
. . .
0 . 4
0.40
10.5
Diseases due to infestation
by metazoan parasites.
Scabies. . .
. . .
. . .
0.35
7.0
Other diseases . . .
0. 37
. . .
. . .
Other diseases classified under systems.
Diseases of the nervous system
. . .
3.
0
0.04
0.24
0.15
0.8
0.07
0.33
. . .
Mental diseases . . .
Diseases of the :—
Eye . . .
11.3
. . .
0.43
0.47
0. 02
6.6
0.04
0.25
Ear and nose
. . .
Disease of the
circulatory
system.
Valvular disease of the heart . . .
0.0
. . .
0.04
0.00
0.5
0 . 0 2 0.04
Disordered action of the heart . . .
0.03
0 05
0.5
0. 07
0.05
Other diseases
. . .
Disease of blood and blood forming organs . . .
4.7
0. 05
0.07
0.27
0.05
Diseases of ductless or endocrine glands . . .
0 .2
. . .
0.01
Diseases of the breast . . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
Diseases of
the respiratory
system.
Larynx and trachea . . .
0. 8
. . .
. . .
0.03
12.4
0.05
0.41
Bronchi and bronchioles
2. 8
0.25
0.05
0.04
Other diseases . . .
Diseases of the teeth and gums
. . .
3.6
. . .
. . .
0.10
6. 3
Diseases of
the digestive
system.
Inflammation of tonsil . . .
. . .
. . .
0.16
22. 4
Inflammation of pharynx . . .
. . .
. . .
0.44
0.9
0.02
0.04
Inflammation of stomach. . .
. . .
Gastric ulcer . . .
0.0
. . .
. . .
0.00
0.0
Duodenal ulcer
. . .
. . .
. . .
0.00
0.9
0.05
0.06
Liver diseases
. . .
. . .
Other diseases
. . .
22.8
0. 11
0.07
0.75
.02
Diseases due to disorders of nutrition or of metabolism
0 .1
. . .
0.01
2. 2
0.12
Diseases of the generative system . . .
. . .
. . .
9. 4
. . .
0.31
0.42
Diseases of bones, joints, Muscles, etc. . . .
Diseases of the areolar tissue . . .
30.4
0.04
. . .
0.98
13.9
. . .
0.60
Diseases of the skin
. . .
. . .
3. 3
0.04
0. 11
0.18
Diseases of the urinary system
. . .
0.5
0.07
0.01
Injuries
G e n e r a l . . .
. . .
56.3
0.43
1.59
2.68
Local. . .
1.7
0.27
0.14
0.12
In action. . .
1.4
0.04
0.09
0.07
Tumours and cysts
. . .
0.3
0.04
. . .
0.00
Poisons
. . .
0.8
. . .
0.04
No appreciable disease . . .
. . .
Suicides*
. . .
0.1
0.13
. . .
0.00
Total . . .
434.1
2.73
5.41
15.94
• The figures against "suicides
having already been shown under the heading of the injury, etc., which
caused death, are not included in the total.