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JAILS OF TIE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1873.
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TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in. CHOTA NAGPORE and in the DINA-
PORE, BENARES, OUDE, and CAWNPORE DISTRICTS, during the Year 1873, and the prevalence of the principal Diseases in
each Month of the Year.
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. | Fever, Intermittent. | Fevers, Remittent and Continued. |
Apoplexy. | Dysentery. | Diarrhœa. | Hepatitis. | Spleen Disease. | Respiratory Diseases. | Heart Diseases. | Phthisis Pulmonalis. | Dropsy. | Scurvy. | Atrophy and Anæmia. | Wounds and Accidents. | All other Causes. | ||||||
January... | 22,721 | 502 | 22.1 | 84 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 42 | 12 | ... | 1 | 14 | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | 5 |
February... | 22,698 | 563 | 24.8 | 54 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | 2 | 6 |
March... | 22,397 | 499 | 22.3 | 50 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | ... | ... | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 4 |
April... | 22,568 | 560 | 24.8 | 52 | ... | 8 | 3 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 11 | 4 | 1 | ... | 6 | ... | 2 | 2 | ... | 4 | 1 | 8 |
May... | 22,881 | 527 | 23.0 | 40 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 3 | 4 | 12 | ... | ... | ... | 7 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 2 | ... | 8 |
June... | 23,129 | 544 | 23.5 | 60 | ... | 7 | 2 | ... | ... | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | 4 |
July... | 23,781 | 549 | 23.1 | 61 | ... | 13 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 13 | 5 | ... | ... | 8 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | 6 | 4 | 8 |
August... | 24,340 | 659 | 27.1 | 117 | ... | 45 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ... | 26 | 14 | ... | ... | 6 | 1 | 5 | ... | ... | 4 | 4 | 5 |
September... | 24,875 | 759 | 30.5 | 104 | ... | 15 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 53 | 10 | ... | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ... | 3 | 3 | 8 |
October... | 24,947 | 750 | 30.1 | 137 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 3 | 4 | 1 | 63 | 14 | ... | 2 | 10 | ... | 8 | 1 | ... | 5 | 1 | 23 |
November... | 25,067 | 713 | 28.4 | 115 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 4 | 4 | ... | 52 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 12 | ... | 8 | ... | ... | 5 | ... | 14 |
December... | 24,476 | 674 | 27.6 | 112 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 13 | ... | ... | 17 | ... | 6 | ... | ... | 9 | 1 | 19 |
95 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 30 | 19 | 359 | 108 | 4 | 6 | 105 | 3 | 51 | 6 | ... | 44 | 21 | 112 | ||||||
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
For the year... | 23,657 | 608 | 25.7 | 986 | 41.68 | 4.02 | .38 | 1.86 | .80 | 19.74 | .16 | .25 | 4.44 | .13 | 2.16 | .25 | ... | 1.86 | .89 | 4.74 |
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. |
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Jan. | Feb. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||||
Cholera... | ... | 1 | 4 | 18 | ... | 33 | 34 | 95 | 27 | 2 | 3 | ... | 217 | 9.2 | 43.78 |
Smallpox... | 6 | 9 | 20 | 31 | 17 | 20 | 7 | 1 | ... | 1 | 8 | 10 | 130 | 5.5 | 6.92 |
Enteric Fever... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | .1 | ... |
Fever, Intermittent... | 346 | 345 | 353 | 528 | 448 | 455 | 474 | 574 | 742 | 711 | 554 | 434 | 5,964 | 252.1 | .20 |
Fevers, Remittent and Continued... |
7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 84 | 3.6 | 35.71 |
Apoplexy... | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 37 | 1 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 53 | 2.2 | 35.85 |
Dysentery... | 137 | 89 | 136 | 163 | 102 | 91 | 185 | 337 | 406 | 281 | 215 | 186 | 2,328 | 98.4 | 11.37 |
Diarrhœa... | 87 | 55 | 91 | 120 | 115 | 147 | 167 | 293 | 255 | 179 | 148 | 124 | 1,781 | 75.3 | |
Hepatitis... | 1 | 3 | ... | 3 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | .6 | 28.57 |
Spleen Disease... | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 77 | 3.2 | 7.79 |
Respiratory Diseases... | 71 | 48 | 51 | 36 | 55 | 35 | 26 | 45 | 27 | 60 | 73 | 62 | 589 | 24.9 | 17.83 |
Phthisis Pulmonalis... | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 72 | 3.0 | 70.83 |
Dropsy... | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 1.2 | 21.43 |
Atrophy and Anæmia... | 18 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 17 | 26 | 24 | 43 | 244 | 10.3 | 18.03 |
Scurvy... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ... | 6 | .3 | ... |
Rheumatism... | 33 | 21 | 24 | 19 | 25 | 29 | 26 | 24 | 30 | 35 | 26 | 23 | 315 | 13.3 | 2.06 |
Venereal Diseases... | 15 | 17 | 32 | 23 | 21 | 24 | 33 | 30 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 21 | 273 | 11.5 | |
Eye Diseases... | 7 | 10 | 22 | 39 | 28 | 13 | 15 | 24 | 45 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 246 | 10.4 | |
Abscess and Ulcer... | 156 | 194 | 191 | 192 | 219 | 306 | 372 | 295 | 287 | 231 | 242 | 205 | 2,890 | 122.2 | |
Wounds and Accidents... | 102 | 112 | 106 | 105 | 122 | 136 | 134 | 71 | 107 | 63 | 76 | 63 | 1,197 | 50.6 | |
All other Causes... | 126 | 155 | 159 | 117 | 140 | 146 | 136 | 165 | 123 | 127 | 111 | 164 | 1,669 | 70.5 | |
1,133 | 1,097 | 1,224 | 1,431 | 1,344 | 1,509 | 1,642 | 2,001 | 2,105 | 1,789 | 1,533 | 1,371 | 18,179 | |||
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month. | |||||||||||||||
49.9 | 48.3 | 54.7 | 63.4 | 58.7 | 65.2 | 69.0 | 82.2 | 84.6 | 71.7 | 61.1 | 56.0 | 768.4 |
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