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NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.
IX.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS of the REGULAR ARMY and of the PUNJAB
FRONTIER FORCE serving TRANS-INDUS during the Year 1876, and the prevalence of the principal Diseases in each Month
of the Year.
(This Table contains the entire of the figures shown in the Statement for the Punjab Frontier Force, with the exception of the statistics of Abbottabad, as well as
the statistics of the Regiments of the Regular Native Army serving beyond the Indus already incorporated in the General Statement for the Punjab.)
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 IN HOSPITAL. | Died out of Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||
Cholera. | Smallpox. | Enteric Fever. | Fever, Intermittent. | Fever, 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 | 14,443 | 598 | 41.4 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
February | 14,742 | 565 | 38.3 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
March | 13,868 | 459 | 33.1 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
April | 12,925 | 364 | 28.2 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
May | 12,232 | 363 | 29.7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
June | 12,203 | 352 | 29.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
July | 12,071 | 344 | 28.5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
August | 12,333 | 492 | 39.9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
September | 12,336 | 715 | 58.0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
October | 12,644 | 979 | 77.4 | 46 | 35 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
November | 13,876 | 1,042 | 75.1 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
December | 14,237 | 711 | 49.9 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
49 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 47 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 6 | |||||||
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
For the year | 13,159 | 582 | 44.2 | 187 | 14.21 | 3.72 | .15 | 2.74 | .38 | .76 | .30 | .08 | 3.57 | .23 | .23 | .08 | .15 | .38 | .23 | .76 | .45 |
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 | 29 | 2 | 53 | 4 | 88 | 6.7 | 55.68 | ||||||||
Smallpox | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | .5 | 33.33 | ||||||
Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | .1 | ||||||||||||
Fever, Intermittent | 660 | 528 | 335 | 374 | 593 | 470 | 528 | 1,260 | 2,033 | 3,687 | 2,396 | 1,191 | 14,055 | 1068.1 | .11 |
Fevers, Remittent and Continued |
14 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 98 | 7.4 | 19.39 |
Apoplexy | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | .8 | 45.45 | |||||
Dysentery | 76 | 39 | 28 | 56 | 92 | 56 | 50 | 185 | 159 | 169 | 136 | 68 | 1,114 | 84.7 | .81 |
Diarrhœa | 25 | 28 | 12 | 41 | 42 | 27 | 38 | 125 | 67 | 89 | 79 | 41 | 614 | 46.7 | |
Hepatitis | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 1.4 | |||||
Spleen Disease | 26 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 22 | 19 | 37 | 25 | 209 | 15.9 | .48 |
Respiratory Diseases | 166 | 199 | 109 | 75 | 67 | 24 | 24 | 46 | 48 | 38 | 68 | 138 | 1,002 | 76.1 | 4.69 |
Phthisis Pulmonalis | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 1.0 | 21.43 | ||||
Dropsy | 2 | 2 | .2 | ||||||||||||
Scurvy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 1.9 | 8.00 |
Rheumatism | 78 | 152 | 99 | 67 | 73 | 69 | 73 | 97 | 66 | 81 | 75 | 103 | 1,033 | 78.5 | .34 |
Venereal Diseases | 35 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 26 | 17 | 24 | 22 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 252 | 19.1 | |
Eye Diseases | 8 | 16 | 18 | 27 | 49 | 38 | 26 | 42 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 319 | 24.2 | |
Abscess and Ulcer | 98 | 112 | 68 | 64 | 121 | 129 | 152 | 234 | 132 | 146 | 135 | 120 | 1,511 | 114.8 | |
Wounds and Accidents | 110 | 158 | 84 | 134 | 161 | 136 | 115 | 152 | 139 | 148 | 149 | 119 | 1,596 | 121.3 | |
All other Causes | 101 | 137 | 128 | 126 | 151 | 107 | 126 | 172 | 134 | 106 | 112 | 126 | 1,526 | 116.0 | |
1,402 | 1,443 | 930 | 1,032 | 1,403 | 1,089 | 1,180 | 2,359 | 2,855 | 4,598 | 3,237 | 1,966 | 23,494 | |||
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month. | |||||||||||||||
97.1 | 97.9 | 67.1 | 79.8 | 114.7 | 89.2 | 97.8 | 191.3 | 231.4 | 363.7 | 233.3 | 138.2 | 1785.4 |
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