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SICKNESS AND MORTALITY IN THE EUROPEAN ARMY OF INDIA.

III.—STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS—GWALIOR FORTRESS; 1870-79.

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TABLE showing the AGGREGATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the EUROPEAN TROOPS occupying GWALIOR
FORTRESS during the TEN YEARS from 1870 to 1879, and the Prevalence of the Principal Diseases in each Month.

MONTHS. Aggregate
Strength
for each
Month of
the Ten
Years.		 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. Wounds and Accidents. Suicidal Deaths, and other
Deaths out of Hospital.
Cholera. Smallpox. Enteric Fever. Fever, Intermittent. Fevers, Remittent and
Continued.		 Apoplexy. Delirium Tremens. Dysentery. Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Spleen disease. Respiratory diseases. Heart diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atrophy and Anæmia. All other causes.
January 3,308 170 51.4 3       1                   1             1
February 3,437 182 53.0 8                         1           4   3
March 3,466 172 49.6 3                     1     1             1
April 3,472 168 48.4 5     1 1     1             1 1            
May 3,467 182 52.5 2             1             1              
June 3,460 185 53.5 8             1       1       4       1 1  
July 3,480 188 54.0 10   6                       1 1       1   1
August 3,461 218 63.0 9   5         l       1       1           1
September 3,465 239 69.0 7   1       4                         1   1
October 3,384 242 71.5 6       1         1                   1   3
November 3,273 182 55.6 4                 1   1     1         1    
December 3,313 164 49.5 4                     1       1           2
            12 1 3   4 4   2   5   1 6 8       9 1 13
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the Ten Years 3,416 191 55.9 69 20.20 3.51 .29 .88 1.17 1.17   .59   1.46   .29 1.76 2.34       2.64 .29 3.81
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
hundred
cases
treated.
JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY. AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
Dengue (of 1872)                              
Cholera         1   8 7 1       17 5.0 70.59
Smallpox 1 1   2                 4 1.2 25.00
Enteric Fever       2   1     4 1   1 9 2.6 33.33
Fever, Intermittent 65 63 51 65 93 71 92 123 176 142 114 87 1,142 334.3  
Fevers, Remittent and Continued 12 6 14 32 26 23 19 23 55 50 19 13 292 85.5 1.37
Apoplexy       3 5 6 3 1 2       20 5.9 20.00
Delirium Tremens   2         3 1   3   1 10 2.9  
Dysentery 1 4 5 6 9 9 8 33 28 13 9 4 129 37.8 1.55
Diarrhœa 2 3 6 7 7 2 25 51 35 7 2 1 148 43.3  
Hepatitis 2 5 8 7 17 24 16 17 9 13 10 10 138 40.4 3.62
Spleen disease   1 2 3 2 4 1 1 4 2   2 22 6.4  
Respiratory diseases 19 21 20 13 17 12 15 9 8 13 17 19 183 53.6 .55
Phthisis Pulmonalis 3 2 1 5 3 2 5 1 5   2 2 31 9.1 25.81
Scurvy                     1   1 .3  
Rheumatism 27 14 19 11 13 12 21 19 20 13 14 9 192 56'2 .76
Venereal diseases 74 70 71 65 50 41 52 49 42 41 38 53 646 189.1
Eye diseases 9 6 7 9 4 6 4 9 15 17 6 5 97 28.4
Abscess and Ulcer 18 22 16 24 27 37 33 13 16 19 18 14 257 75.2
Wounds and Accidents 27 31 28 33 20 15 20 22 23 30 18 23 290 84.9
All other Causes 26 48 35 50 62 69 49 64 59 62 59 32 615 180.0  
  286 299 283 337 356 334 374 443 502 426 327 276 4,243    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  86.5 87.0 81.7 97.1 102.7 96.5 107.5 128.0 144.9 125.9 99.9 83.3 1,242.1