WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF EUROPEAN REGIMENTS, 1873.

I.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the WOMEN of the EUROPEAN REGIMENTS composing the ARMY of
INDIA during the Year 1873, 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 the Year per
1,000 of Strength.		 CAUSES OF DEATHS.
Cholera. Smallpox. Enteric Fever. Fevers, Intermittent. Fevers, Remittent and
Continued.		 Heat Apoplexy. Dysentery. Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Atrophy and Anæmia. Childbirth and Abor-
tion.		 All other Causes.
January... 6,511 178 27.3 6 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... 2 1 ... ... ... 1 1
February... 6,709 165 24.6 7 ... ... ... ... ... 2 ... ... ... 1 1 1 1 ... 1 ...
March... 6,732 212 31.5 6 ... ... ... ... ... 1 1 ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... 3 ...
April... 6,723 263 39.1 17 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 2 3 2 ... ... ... 3 1
May... 6,702 284 42.4 9 ... ... 2 ... ... 2 ... ... ... ... 3 ... ... ... 1 1
June... 6,675 295 44.2 8 ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 1 ... ... ... ... ... 1 1 3
July... 6,650 281 42.3 15 ... ... ... 1 ... 3 1 1 4 ... 3 ... ... ... 1 1
August... 6,629 289 43.6 14 ... 1 ... ... ... 2 ... 4 2 ... 1 ... ... ... ... 4
September... 6,592 331 50.2 18 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... 1 1 1 4 1 1 ... 2 1
October... 6,563 261 39.8 11 ... ... ... ... 1 2 ... 2 ... 1 1 ... 1 1 1 1
November... 6,522 192 39.4 8 ... ... ... ... ... 2 ... ... 3 ... ... ... ... ... ... 3
December... 6,508 161 24.7 13 ... ... ... 1 ... 2 ... ... ... 1 2 ... ... 1 2 4
  6 2 5 1 19 4 11 12 9 18 2 4 3 16 20
Died per 1,000 of Strength.
For the year... 6,626 243 36.7 132 19.92 .91 .30 3.77 .60 1.66 1.81 1.36 2.72 .30 .60 .45 2.42 3.02
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.
Jan. Feb. March. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Cholera... ... ... ... 2 ... ... ... 1 4 ... ... ... 7 1.1 85.71
Smallpox... 1 1 ... 9 3 ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... 15 2.3 13.33
Dengue... 8 6 2 1 1 ... 3 ... 2 6 ... ... 29 4.4 ...
Enteric Fever... ... ... ... 3 2 ... 1 ... 3 ... 1 1 11 1.7 45.45
Intermittent Fevers... 52 39 55 74 87 113 126 103 143 129 112 80 1,113 167.9 .09
Remittent and Continued
Fevers...		 30 29 26 85 66 103 110 75 128 74 32 23 781 117.9 2.43
Heat Apoplexy... ... ... 3 ... 2 2 2 ... ... ... ... ... 9 1.3 44.44
Dysentery... 13 9 13 25 13 14 22 26 39 26 15 12 227 34.2 4.84
Diarrhœa... 10 14 22 39 26 27 45 58 49 26 27 22 365 55.1 3.29
Hepatitis... 9 13 5 16 16 15 8 16 14 13 6 13 144 21.7 6.25
Spleen Disease... ... 1 3 3 1 2 1 3 2 3 1 ... 20 3.0 ...
Respiratory Diseases... 25 24 19 40 17 11 17 15 13 13 13 23 230 34.7 .87
Phthisis Pulmonalis... 6 4 8 3 9 3 6 5 3 4 5 4 60 9.1 30.00
Debility and Anæmia... 51 58 92 161 119 119 122 101 172 103 94 88 1,280 193.3 .24
Rheumatism... 11 9 10 12 14 8 16 12 16 10 4 7 129 19.5 ...
Eye Diseases... 6 8 8 29 23 15 44 62 113 46 23 18 395 59.6 ...
Childbirth... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...* ...
Abortion... 6 11 11 14 14 12 15 11 10 8 8 6 126 19.0 .80
Diseases peculiar to Wo-
men...		 21 20 18 28 26 25 26 14 21 18 15 12 244 36.8 2.25
Abscess and Ulcer... 12 6 8 14 10 18 28 22 20 11 6 12 167 25.2
Injuries... 7 2 6 6 8 10 9 8 2 5 3 3 69 10.4
All other Causes... 36 44 56 68 53 62 75 85 89 64 41 37 710 107.1
  304 298 365 632 510 559 677 617 843 559 406 361 6,131    
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
46.7 44.4 54.2 94.0 76.1 83.7 101.8 93.1 127.9 85.2 62.2 55.5 925.3

* Childbirth is not reckoned as a cause of admission into hospital.