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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE JAIL POPULATION OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY. [Section III.
SUB-DIVISIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL PROPER—
V. CENTRAL JAIL AT ALIPORE, 1867—76.
XIX.
TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the PRISONERS of the ALIPORE
JAIL during the TEN YEARS from 1867 to 1876, and the prevalence of the principal Diseases in each Month.
| MONTHS. | Average Strength. | Average Number Daily Sick. | Number Daily Sick per 1,000 of Strength. | Number of Deaths. | Died per 1,000 of Strength. | CAUSES OF DEATHS. | |||||||||||||||
| Cholera. | Smallpox. | Enteric Fever. | Fevers. | Apoplexy. | Dysentery and Diarrhœa. | Hepatitis. | Spleen Disease. | Respiratory Diseases. | Heart Diseases. | Phthisis Pulmonalis. | Dropsy. | Scurvy. | Atrophy and Anæmia. | Wounds and Accidents. | All other Causes. | ||||||
| January | 24,471 | 1,295 | 52.9 | 116 | 4.74 | 3 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 56 | ... | ... | 15 | 1 | 13 | 3 | ... | 6 | 1 | 16 |
| February | 24,063 | 1,231 | 51.2 | 103 | 4.28 | 14 | ... | ... | 2 | 2 | 47 | ... | ... | 18 | 2 | 11 | 1 | ... | 2 | ... | 4 |
| March | 23,976 | 1,206 | 50.3 | 134 | 5.59 | 37 | ... | 1 | 3 | ... | 49 | ... | ... | 10 | 1 | 20 | ... | ... | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| April | 23,749 | 1,221 | 51.4 | 98 | 4.13 | 22 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | 36 | ... | .. | 12 | ... | 15 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 7 |
| May | 23,752 | 1,150 | 48.4 | 82 | 3.45 | 8 | ... | 2 | 5 | 1 | 32 | ... | ... | 7 | ... | 15 | 1 | ... | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| June | 24,028 | 1,160 | 48.3 | 77 | 3.20 | 10 | ... | ... | 4 | 1 | 30 | ... | ... | 9 | 1 | 11 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 8 |
| July | 24,074 | 1,410 | 58.6 | 69 | 2.87 | 6 | ... | ... | 4 | 1 | 30 | ... | 1 | 7 | ... | 8 | 2 | ... | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| August | 24,130 | 1,459 | 60.5 | 87 | 3.61 | 3 | ... | 1 | 6 | ... | 37 | ... | ... | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | ... | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| September | 24,456 | 1,425 | 58.3 | 77 | 3.15 | 3 | ... | ... | 3 | 1 | 32 | 2 | ... | 6 | 1 | 6 | ... | ... | 6 | 1 | 16 |
| October | 24,991 | 1,447 | 57.9 | 99 | 3.96 | 3 | ... | 1 | 6 | ... | 55 | ... | ... | 6 | 2 | 15 | 1 | ... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| November | 24,791 | 1,559 | 62.9 | 152 | 6.13 | 7 | ... | ... | 4 | 1 | 78 | 1 | ... | 13 | 3 | 14 | ... | ... | 8 | 4 | 19 |
| December | 24,432 | 1,517 | 62.1 | 150 | 6.14 | 4 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 78 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 17 | 3 | ... | 10 | ... | 9 |
| 120 | ... | 5 | 43 | 8 | 560 | 4 | 4 | 133 | 16 | 155 | 12 | ... | 59 | 12 | 113 | ||||||
| Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| For the ten years | 24,243 | 1,341 | 55.3 | 1,244 | 51.31 | 4.95 | ... | .21 | 1.77 | .33 | 23.10 | .17 | .17 | 5.48 | .66 | 6.40 | .49 | ... | 2.43 | .49 | 4.66 |
| CAUSES OF ADMISSIONS. | NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL IN EACH MONTH. | Total admitted during the ten years. |
Admitted per 1,000 of Strength. |
Died Out of each hun- dred cases treated. |
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| Jan. | Feb. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||||
| Cholera | 16 | 50 | 117 | 58 | 30 | 40 | 42 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 15 | 426 | 17.6 | 28.17 |
| Smallpox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Enteric Fever (1872—76) | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 7 | .3 | 71.43 |
| Fever, Intermittent | 1,107 | 857 | 998 | 1,037 | 1,088 | 1,021 | 1,424 | 1,594 | 1,482 | 1,556 | 1,973 | 1,655 | 15,792 | 651.4 | .27 |
| Fevers, Remittent and Con-tinned | 68 | 48 | 64 | 31 | 41 | 30 | 59 | 56 | 25 | 26 | 20 | 20 | 488 | 20.1 | |
| Apoplexy | ... | 2 | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 8 | .3 | 100.00 |
| Dysentery | 481 | 386 | 379 | 462 | 418 | 442 | 786 | 653 | 587 | 622 | 637 | 649 | 6,502 | 268.2 | 4.01 |
| Diarrhœa | 458 | 541 | 760 | 500 | 464 | 665 | 759 | 728 | 683 | 704 | 644 | 555 | 7,461 | 307.7 | |
| Hepatitis | 3 | 2 | 2 | ... | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | .9 | 18.18 |
| Spleen Disease | 31 | 36 | 20 | 45 | 24 | 15 | 36 | 16 | 33 | 41 | 40 | 36 | 373 | 15.4 | 1.07 |
| Respiratory Diseases | 92 | 86 | 95 | 68 | 60 | 46 | 65 | 73 | 72 | 85 | 100 | 96 | 938 | 38.7 | 14.18 |
| Phthisis Pulmonalis | 17 | 25 | 28 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 27 | 32 | 243 | 10.0 | 63.78 |
| Dropsy | 6 | 6 | 8 | ... | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 70 | 2.9 | 17.14 |
| Atrophy and Anæmia | 90 | 69 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 72 | 185 | 107 | 115 | 162 | 205 | 117 | 1,323 | 54.6 | 4.46 |
| Scurvy | 19 | 7 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 44 | 23 | 14 | 31 | 51 | 43 | 289 | 11.9 | ... |
| Rheumatism | 47 | 41 | 58 | 46 | 62 | 62 | 52 | 38 | 43 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 623 | 25.7 | 1.66 |
| Venereal Diseases | 6 | 10 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 178 | 7.3 | |
| Eye Diseases | 8 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 20 | 24 | 22 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 172 | 7.1 | |
| Abscess and Ulcer | 127 | 107 | 129 | 137 | 142 | 142 | 141 | 142 | 126 | 133 | 102 | 120 | 1,548 | 63.8 | |
| Wounds and Accidents | 38 | 11 | 39 | 53 | 66 | 49 | 68 | 45 | 72 | 60 | 47 | 50 | 638 | 26.3 | |
| All other Causes | 386 | 491 | 550 | 510 | 539 | 498 | 516 | 433 | 386 | 372 | 334 | 319 | 5,334 | 220.2 | |
| 3,000 | 2,819 | 3,368 | 3,078 | 3,064 | 3,164 | 4,239 | 3,991 | 3,717 | 3,897 | 4,303 | 3,795 | 42,435 | |||
| Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month. | |||||||||||||||
| 122.6 | 117.2 | 140.5 | 120.6 | 129.0 | 131.7 | 176.1 | 165.4 | 152.0 | 155.9 | 173.6 | 155.3 | 1750.4 | |||
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