JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1872.

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TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in LOWER BENGAL and in ASSAM 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. Died per 1,000 of Strength. CAUSES OF DEATHS.
Cholera. Smallpox. Enteric Fever. Fever, Intermittent. Fever, Remittent. Fever, Continued. Apoplexy. Dysentery. Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Spleen Diseases. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atrophy and Anæmia. Wounds and Accidents. All other Causes.
January 13,782 549 39.8 50 ... 1 ... ... 6 1 ... ... 21 4 ... ... 2 1 1 4 1 3 1 4
February 14,100 485 34.4 54 ... 1 ... ... ... 2 ... ... 23 4 ... ... 7 ... 5 4 ... 2 2 4
March 14,185 458 32.3 40 ... 5 ... ... 1 1 ... ... 15 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 2 ... 4 1 2
April 14,349 477 33.2 45 ... 8 ... ... 2 2 ... ... 13 4 ... ... 3 ... 3 1 ... 3 1 5
May 14,873 499 33.6 64 ... 20 ... ... 2 1 ... 1 19 3 ... 1 5 1 4 ... ... 2 2 3
June 15,450 528 34.2 49 ... 5 ... ... ... 1 ... 2 20 2 2 ... 4 ... 4 ... ... 1 2 6
July 15,533 649 41.8 69 ... 12 1 ... ... 2 ... 2 35 6 ... ... 3 1 1 1 ... 2 1 2
August 15,589 688 44.1 75 ... 2 ... 1 1 2 ... 1 33 10 ... ... 2 ... 6 3 ... 5 1 8
September 15,505 641 413 76 ... ... 1 ... 3 4 ... 1 30 12 ... 1 7 1 5 ... ... 3 2 6
October 15,326 629 41.0 83 ... 3 ... 1 5 7 ... ... 23 16 ... 5 6 2 6 5 ... 1 2 1
November 15,360 640 41.7 73 ... 4 ... ... 6 3 ... ... 21 13 ... ... 7 1 5 5 ... 2 2 4
December 15,086 605 40.1 64 ... 10 ... ... 3 2 ... ... 21 10 ... 1 4 ... 2 4 1 2 1 3
  71 2 2 29 28 ... 7 274 84 4 8 53 7 46 29 2 30 18 48
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 14,930 571 38.2 742 49.70 4.75 .14 3.95 .47 23.98 .27 .54 3.55 .47 3.08 1.94 .14 2.01 1.20 3.21
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.
Dengue ... ... 1 44 80 145 158 157 42 62 18 5 712 47.7 ...
Cholera 3 4 18 18 41 14 26 6 4 5 6 20 165 11.1 43.03
Smallpox 1 ... ... ... ... 2 ... ... 1 ... ... ... 4 .3 50.00
Enteric Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... 1 2 1 5 .3 40.00
Fever, Intermittent 463 342 390 482 550 399 562 612 651 741 764 698 6,654 445.7 .44
" Remittent and
Continued		 4 8 7 11 9 11 17 25 11 29 20 10 162 10.8 17.28
Apoplexy ... ... 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 ... 1 ... 10 .7 70.00
Dysentery 189 151 168 162 197 246 353 329 305 221 222 223 2,766 185.2 6.81
Diarrhœa 86 138 217 215 183 250 34] 211 192 236 227 197 2,493 167.0
Hepatitis 1 2 5 1 5 2 1 2 5 4 1 4 33 2.2 12.12
Spleen Disease 24 26 15 24 16 20 28 21 33 29 22 38 296 19.8 2.70
Respiratory Diseases 49 36 41 36 35 44 31 39 41 45 62 68 527 35.3 10.06
Phthisis Pulmonalis 10 14 14 6 6 9 6 6 11 8 14 6 110 7.4 41.82
Dropsy 11 6 6 4 7 3 14 9 11 10 10 4 95 6.4 30.53
Atrophy and Anæmia 11 20 9 14 18 11 21 19 17 20 8 11 179 12.0 16.76
Scurvy 3 3 1 4 4 6 8 7 13 2 19 8 78 5.2 2.56
Rheumatism 35 32 33 31 29 43 44 36 43 34 47 32 439 29.4 1.78
Venereal Diseases 13 15 15 21 22 29 28 12 23 13 14 10 215 14.4
Eye Diseases 11 11 9 19 16 13 12 9 14 7 13 9 143 9.6
Abscess and Ulcer 80 78 79 92 77 78 97 81 82 61 53 63 921 61.7
Wounds and Accidents 48 43 48 53 59 58 55 47 47 51 30 35 574 38.4
All other Causes 100 93 120 151 180 144 155 200 174 181 159 150 1,807 121.0
  1,142 1,022 1,197 1,389 1,535 1,529 1,959 1,830 1,721 1,760 1,712 1,592 18,388  
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
82.9 72.5 84.4 96.8 103.2 99.0 126.1 117.4 111.0 114.8 111.5 105.5 1231.6  

   1872.

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