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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE JAIL POPULATION OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY.

[Section III.

ADMINISTRATION OF THE PUNJAB-RAWALPINDI JAIL

LI.

AGGREGATE of the SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the JAIL at RAWALPINDI during the TEN YEARS
from 1867 to 1876.

[A Jail which in several years of the period has suffered from outbreaks of Contagious Fever.]

MONTHS. Aggregate of the Average
Strength in each Month,
1867 to 1876.		 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. Small pox. Enteric Fever. Contagious Fever. Other Fever. Apoplexy. Dysentery and Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Spleen Disease. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atrophy and Anæmia. Wounds and Accidents. All other Cases.
January 9,416 417 44.3 59 6.27 ... ... ... 25 ... ... 10 1 2 14 ... 1 ... 1 1 1 3
February 9,256 522 56.4 85 9.18 ... ... ... 58 ... ... 6 ... ... 16 ... ... ... ... 2 ... 3
March 9,130 573 62.8 108 11.83 ... 1 ... 84 2 1 2 ... ... 9 ... 2 ... ... 3 ... 4
April 8,907 500 56.1 46 5.16 ... ... ... 27 11 ... 3 ... 1 3 ... ... ... ... 1 ... ...
May 8,815 286 32.4 33 3.74 5 ... ... 11 12 ... 2 1 ... 2 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
June 9,030 201 22.3 22 2.44 2 ... ... 4 5 3 1 ... ... 2 ... 2 ... ... 1 ... 2
July 9,166 184 20.1 11 1.20 ... ... ... ... 3 1 1 ... ... 4 ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1
August 9,253 280 30.3 11 1.19 2 ... ... 1 3 ... 2 ... ... 2 ... ... ... ... ... ... 1
September 9,289 406 43.7 30 3.23 ... ... ... 1 5 1 12 2 ... 1 ... 2 ... ... ... 4 2
October 9,598 533 55.5 45 4.69 ... ... ... 13 8 ... 10 1 2 4 ... ... ... ... 1 1 5
November 9,585 595 62.1 54 5.63 ... ... ... 17 9 1 12 ... ... 8 ... ... ... ... 2 ... 5
December 9.114 448 47.6 49 5.21 ... ... ... 17 6 ... 10 ... ... 12 ... ... ... ... 2 ... 2
  9 1 ... 258 64 7 71 5 5 77 ... 8 ... 1 13 6 28
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the ten years 9,240 412 44.6 553 59.85 .97 .11 ... 27.92 6.93 ... 7.68 .54 .54 8.33 ... .87 ... .11 1.41 .65 3.03
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
hundred
cases
treated.
Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Cholera ... ... ... ... 13 1 ... 2 ... ... ... ... 16 1.7 56.25
Smallpox 2 ... 1 ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 .4 25.00
Enteric Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Fever, Intermittent 379 276 262 283 281 252 356 849 1,171 1,129 705 426 6,369 639.3 .96
Fevers, Remittent; and Con-
tinned		 4 10 73 60 28 6 12 18 16 26 14 6 273 29.6
Contagious Fevers 173 554 722 280 101 57 17 1 ... 315 151 87 2,458 266.0 10.50
Apoplexy ... ... ... 1 2 4 3 ... 1 ... 1 ... 12 1.3 58.33
Dysentery 19 21 15 24 23 20 26 50 59 61 78 46 442 47.8 6.74
Diarrhœa 32 29 26 42 41 24 82 96 60 55 88 37 612 66.2
Hepatitis 2 ... 1 ... 1 ... ... 1 2 1 1 ... 9 1.0 55.56
Spleen Disease 8 5 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 11 12 9 70 7.6 7.14
Respiratory Diseases 104 85 52 24 12 36 22 9 9 29 71 106 559 60.5 13.77
Phthisis Pulmonalis ... 2 2 ... 3 4 3 2 ... ... ... 2 18 2.0 44.44
Dropsy 2 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 ... ... ... 4 4 ...
Atrophy and Anæmia 16 5 13 4 10 5 11 3 6 12 13 16 114 12.3 11.40
Scurvy 2 ... ... ... ... 1 ... 6 1 ... 4 1 15 1.6 6.67
Rheumatism 18 11 11 11 10 5 7 4 7 10 8 11 113 12.2 1.90
Venereal Diseases 21 7 7 12 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 8 80 8.7
Eye Diseases 4 4 6 10 9 9 6 10 8 6 6 51 83 9.0
Abscess and Ulcer 95 59 60 50 40 52 70 71 70 67 59 81 774 83.8
Wounds and Accidents 15 12 12 10 19 14 23 14 26 15 17 16 193 20.9
All other Causes 44 39 36 42 39 48 59 55 37 31 60 54 544 58.9 ...
  940 1,119 1,301 856 639 546 705 1,199 1,483 1,771 1,292 911 12,762  
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
99.8 120.9 142.5 96.1 72.5 60.5 76.9 129.6 159.7 184.5 134.8 96.8 1381.2