Chapter I.]

GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE ARMY FOR THE SIX YEARS.

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     The characteristic distinction is maintained in the Invaliding of Madras; out of each 100
cases invalided, 32 were attributed to dysentery or liver affection, against 20 in Bengal and 18
in Bombay. On the average of the six years 1871-76, 100 cases of invaliding from the Three
Presidencies were constituted thus:—

     Dysentery and hepatitis cause an increase in the invaliding-rate of Madras, as compared
with that of Bengal and Bombay, of 6 per 1,000, the averages being for Madras 45.71, for
Bengal 39.87, and for Bombay 39.25: dysentery gives in Madras an annual loss per 1,000 of
6.58, in Bengal 1.79, and in Bombay 1.56; and hepatitis and dysentery, taken together, 14.56,
7.96, and 6.89 in the Three Presidencies respectively. The ratios for fever and spleen affections
fall to a minimum, as in the case of the admission-rate for these diseases, and the relative liability
to invaliding is less than one-third in the case of the Army of Madras.

     The extent of invaliding in the Three Presidencies is contrasted in this statement,
which exhibits also the ratio contributed by the chief causes on account of which the soldier
is sent home sick from India:—

Aggregate of the average annnal strengths of the six years, 1871-76.

Invaliding rates, and the Ratio of Liability to the Chief Causes of Invaliding contrasted in the
Three Presidencies, on the results of 1871-76.