WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF EUROPEAN REGIMENTS, 1872.
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TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the CHILDREN of the EUROPEAN REGIMENTS composing
the ARMY of INDIA during the Year 1872, 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 in each Month. |
Death-rate of each Month per 1,000 of Strength. |
CAUSES OF DEATHS. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cholera. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Hooping Cough. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Intermittent Fevers. | Remittent and Conti- nued fevers. |
Heat Apoplexy. | Dentition. | Convulsions. | Meningitis and Hydro- cephalus. |
Tabes Mesenterica. | Phthisis Pulmonalis. | Dysentery. | Diarrhœa. | Anæmia and Atrophy. | Bronchitis and Pneu- monia. |
Croup and Diphtheria. | All other Causes. | ||||||
| January | 11,338 | 256 | 22.6 | 37 | 3.26 | ... | 1 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| February | 11,337 | 261 | 23.0 | 31 | 2.73 | ... | 1 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| March | 11,775 | 280 | 23.8 | 59 | 5.01 | ... | 2 | 9 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ... | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | ... | 5 |
| April | 11,730 | 369 | 31.5 | 93 | 7.93 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | 8 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 3 | ... | 2 | 18 | 9 | 3 | ... | 9 |
| May | 11,757 | 495 | 42.1 | 122 | 10.38 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 10 | 1 | 8 | 24 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| June | 11,756 | 500 | 42.5 | 83 | 7.06 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 8 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 8 | 8 | ... | 5 |
| July | 11,810 | 547 | 46.3 | 117 | 9.91 | 8 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 9 | ... | 6 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| August | 11,783 | 742 | 63.0 | 193 | 16.38 | 54 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 5 | ... | 25 | 20 | 1 | 6 | ... | 5 | 49 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| September | 11,732 | 752 | 64.1 | 159 | 13.55 | 30 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 12 | ... | 19 | 19 | 5 | 9 | ... | 7 | 30 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| October | 11,664 | 584 | 50.1 | 119 | 10.20 | 13 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | ... | 10 | ... | 9 | 23 | 2 | 4 | ... | 3 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| November | 11,677 | 429 | 36.7 | 67 | 5.74 | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | 7 | ... | 3 | 12 | 3 | 3 | ... | 3 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| December | 11,518 | 286 | 24.8 | 75 | 6.51 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | ... | 3 | 8 | 1 | 5 | ... | 2 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| 118 | 6 | 27 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 76 | 3 | 92 | 171 | 38 | 46 | 3 | 44 | 222 | 141 | 60 | 27 | 57 | ||||||
| Died per 1,000 of Strength. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For the year | 11,657 | 459 | 39.4 | 1,155* | 99.08 | 10.12 | .51 | 2.32 | .26 | .51 | 7.81 | .26 | 7.89 | 14.67 | 3.26 | 3.94 | .26 | 3.77 | 19.04 | 12.10 | 5.15 | 2.32 | 4.89 | ||
| 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 treated. |
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| Jan. | Feb. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||||
| Cholera | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 13 | ... | 13 | 73 | 33 | 18 | 2 | ... | 154 | 13.2 | 76.62 |
| Smallpox | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 21 | 1.8 | 28.57 |
| Dengue | 7 | ... | 26 | 114 | 105 | 80 | 160 | 80 | 172 | 84 | 34 | 16 | 878 | 75.3 | .91† |
| Measles | 84 | 69 | 101 | 33 | 21 | 28 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ... | 6 | 372 | 31.9 | 7.26 |
| Hooping Cough | 7 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ... | 5 | 4 | 1 | 51 | 4.4 | 5.88 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 11 | 4 | 2 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 23 | 2.0 | 26.09 |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | ... | 1 | 5 | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ... | ... | 16 | 1.3 | 33.33 |
| Intermittent Fevers | 53 | 38 | 40 | 59 | 64 | 48 | 69 | 136 | 171 | 355 | 224 | 121 | 1,378 | 118.2 | .73 |
| Remittent and Continued Fevers |
19 | 32 | 66 | 95 | 100 | 126 | 98 | 92 | 154 | 219 | 134 | 80 | 1,215 | 104.2 | 6.25 |
| Heat Apoplexy | ... | ... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 11 | .9 | 27.27 |
| Dysentery | 16 | 9 | 12 | 30 | 28 | 20 | 39 | 50 | 56 | 29 | 17 | 16 | 322 | 27.6 | 13.66 |
| Diarrhœa | 58 | 34 | 62 | 163 | 144 | 102 | 204 | 278 | 207 | 114 | 63 | 55 | 1,484 | 127.3 | 14.96 |
| Hepatitis | ... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 1.3 | 20.00 |
| Spleen Disease | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 4 | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 1.2 | ... |
| Respiratory Diseases | 38 | 49 | 50 | 52 | 39 | 31 | 46 | 47 | 63 | 79 | 35 | 51 | 573 | 49.2 | 15.18 |
| Eye Diseases | 17 | 16 | 10 | 118 | 166 | 79 | 252 | 488 | 231 | 145 | 30 | 10 | 1,562 | 134.0 | ... |
| Anæmia and Debility | 71 | 49 | 58 | 99 | 103 | 125 | 154 | 135 | 115 | 176 | 106 | 88 | 1,279 | 109.7 | 11.03 |
| Tubercular Diseases | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 115 | 9.9 | 42.61 |
| Meningitis and Hydro- cephalus |
1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 57 | 4.9 | 66.67 |
| Convulsions. | 6 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 31 | 18 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 33 | 14 | 14 | 225 | 19.3 | 76.00 |
| Dentition | 13 | 9 | 27 | 39 | 36 | 36 | 33 | 70 | 60 | 41 | 17 | 20 | 401 | 34.4 | 22.94 |
| Abscess and Ulcer | 6 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 168 | 14.4 | 5.31 |
| Injuries | 12 | 14 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 12 | 164 | 14.1 | |
| All other Causes | 48 | 55 | 60 | 61 | 39 | 36 | 50 | 32 | 44 | 40 | 33 | 36 | 534 | 45.9 | |
| 467 | 414 | 574 | 970 | 970 | 792 | 1,224 | 1,556 | 1,383 | 1,388 | 749 | 545 | 11,032 | |||
| Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month. | |||||||||||||||
| 41.2 | 36.5 | 48.7 | 82.7 | 82.5 | 67.4 | 103.6 | 132.1 | 117.9 | 119.0 | 64.1 | 47.3 | 946.4 | |||
*Excluding 35 deaths, which appear in the Regimental Returns, of stillborn children and premature children who survived their birth for a short time.
†Eight deaths of children were returned under the head of Dengue.
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