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JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1876.

VII.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL, POPULATION in the PUNJAB during the Year 1876, 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. 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 13,859 464 33.5 42         1 1 1 15 3     11   2     2 2 4
February 13,465 375 27.8 23     1   1     9 1     9   2          
March 13,408 352 26.3 16         1     2       8   1     1 1 2
April 13,363 518 38.8 21           1   6 3     8           1 2
May 13,518 577 42.7 19         1 2   3 3   1 6   1 1     1  
June 13,597 631 46.4 29         2 1 3 1 2     10   2       2 6
July 13,756 524 38.1 24   2   1 2 2 5 3       7   1         1
August 13,743 833 60.6 27   4     1 4   2 5     4 1       1 3 2
September 13,769 998 72.5 63   4     3 14   17 10     5   4 1   1   4
October 13,350 929 69.6 64   4     7 6 1 17 10     8   2     3 1 5
November 13,091 741 56.6 88         7 8   31 15     14   2 2   4   5
December 12,830 585 45.6 78         4 3 1 22 14     23     1   5 1 4
            14 1 1 30 42 11 128 66   1 113 1 17 5   17 12 35
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 13,479 627 46.5 494 36.65 1.04 .08 5.41 .81 14.39   .08 8.38 .08 1.26 .37   1.26 .89 2.60
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.
Jan. Feb. March. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Cholera           1 11 6 6 6     30 2.2 46.67
Smallpox   1           1       1 3 .2 33.33
Enteric Fever 1         1       1     3 .2  
Fever, Intermittent 541 313 469 766 949 898 747 2,231 3,073 2,400 1,452 854 14,693 1090.1 .20
" Remittent and
Continued		 19 1 2 4 6 2 4 31 70 65 23 8 235 17.4 17.87
Apoplexy 1     2 2 9 17     1   1 33 2.4 33.33
Dysentery 120 56 71 110 92 56 52 115 151 171 163 109 1,266 93.9 9.58
Diarrhœa 32 45 48 53 49 49 79 100 81 73 82 68 759 56.3
Hepatitis         1           1   2 .2  
Spleen Disease 12 9 12 7 6 5 4 6 8 17 11 16 113 8.4 .89
Respiratory Diseases 128 88 58 49 58 37 50 40 25 44 79 147 803 59.6 14.07
Phthisis Pulmonalis 2 3 1 5 5 2 2 1 4 4 5 1 35 2.6 48.57
Dropsy 3 2     1   1 1   1 4 4 17 1.3 29.41
Atrophy and Anæmia 11 6 2 13 11 15 16 11 7 19 29 32 172 12.8 9.88
Scurvy 1 1 1   2   1         1 7 .5  
Rheumatism 22 16 18 21 22 17 20 13 14 18 17 18 216 16.0 1.08
Venereal Diseases 22 16 14 12 15 14 11 8 5 9 9 11 146 10.8
Eye Diseases 14 8 17 16 26 15 11 19 12 13 4 8 163 12.1
Abscess and Ulcer 142 154 181 315 387 312 283 196 173 172 137 140 2,592 192.3
Wounds and Accidents 24 23 42 45 38 40 38 40 22 27 20 22 381 28.3
All other Causes 61 61 89 82 83 88 100 116 66 72 62 55 935 69.4
  1,156 803 1,025 1,500 1,753 1,561 1,447 2,935 3,717 3,113 2,098. 1,496 22,604    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  83.4 59.6 76.4 112.3 129.7 114.8 105.2 213.6 270.0 233.2 160.3 116.6 1677.0  

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