JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1873.

I.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION of the BENGAL PRESIDENCY 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. Died per 1,000 of Strength. CAUSES OF DEATHS.
Cholera. Samallpox. Enteric Fever. Typhus Fever. Fever, Intermittent. Fevers, Remittent and
Continued.*		 Apoplexy. Dysentery. Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Spleen Disease. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atorphy and Anæmia. Wounds and Accidents. All other Causes.
January... 63,135 1,831 29.0 298 4.74 3 ... ... ... 7 27 1 95 25 ... 3 85 2 16 4 ... 11 5 14
February... 63,558 1,779 28.0 178 2.80 2 1 ... 3 3 21 2 42 21 1 2 51 ... 4 3 1 9 3 9
March... 63,431 1,759 27.7 197 3.09 11 ... ... 23 5 22 2 36 16 ... 3 44 1 9 2 ... 8 1 14
April... 64,034 1,834 28.6 175 2.73 20 4 1 10 7 8 6 33 13 1 3 20 4 13 5 ... 8 4 15
May... 64,765 1,746 27.0 161 2.49 10 4 ... 4 10 18 4 35 10 ... ... 26 ... 12 2 ... 5 7 14
June... 66,518 1,739 26.1 158 2.38 16 2 ... 2 6 21 19 26 12 ... ... 16 ... 14 1 ... 6 4 13
July... 68,058 1,830 26.9 120 1.76 20 ... ... ... 1 7 3 24 10 ... 1 14 4 6 ... ... 8 9 13
August... 69,488 2,360 33.9 258 3.81 79 1 2 ... 2 13 2 53 28 2 ... 20 5 13 2 ... 14 5 17
September... 70,282 2,934 41.7 275 3.80 29 ... ... ... 5 12 3 121 29 1 2 18 3 14 2 ... 9 6 21
October... 70,524 3,064 43.4 348 4.96 3 ... ... ... 7 35 4 131 44 1 4 43 7 16 6 1 12 2 32
November... 70,664 2,557 36.2 358 5.05 6 ... 1 ... 9 39 6 116 36 2 1 57 3 22 4 1 22 1 32
December... 69,982 2,277 32.5 362 5.17 ... ... ... ... 4 32 2 112 47 ... 3 75 6 17 6 ... 18 2 38
  199 12 4 42 66 255* 54 824 291 8 22 469 35 156 37 3 130 49 232
Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year... 67,037 2,143 31.9 2,888 43.08 2.97 .18 5.47 .81 16.63 .12 .33 7.00 .52 2.33 .55 .04 1.94 .73 3.46
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.
Cholera... 4 2 29 46 38 48 57 175 41 6 19 4 469 7.0 42.43
Smallpox... 6 13 24 36 21 21 7 1 1 4 8 13 155 2.3 7.74
Enteric Fever... ... ... 1 ... ... ... 1 2 ... 1 ... ... 5 .1 ...
Fever, Intermittent... 1,626 1,248 1,426 1,814 1,820 1,589 1,660 3,621 4,469 3,819 2,658 1,866 27,616 411.9 .24
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued...		 179 234 274 139 112 128 70 101 272 625 264 151 2,549 38.2 11.65
Apoplexy... 2 1 3 7 8 48 6 2 3 3 6 ... 89 1.3 60.67
Dysentery... 515 299 393 466 413 406 590 1,022 1,124 817 658 643 7,346 109.6 7.66
Diarrhœa... 445 313 527 478 462 601 780 907 848 745 582 536 7.224 107.8
Hepatitis... 6 7 2 5 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 53 .8 15.09
Spleen Disease... 62 37 35 45 43 42 61 45 55 37 49 49 560 8.3 3.93
Respiratory Diseases... 474 315 247 172 179 168 138 182 158 230 311 378 2,952 44.0 15.88
Phthisis Pulmonalis... 23 17 14 12 20 26 21 10 16 24 17 32 232 3.5 67.24
Dropsy... 14 11 12 11 14 16 11 13 15 19 13 31 180 2.7 20.56
Atrophy and Anæmia... 74 88 38 58 51 47 247 113 117 149 184 134 1,300 19.4 10.00
Scurvy... 12 11 15 13 20 25 19 14 39 29 10 5 212 3.2 1.41
Rheumatism... 99 78 84 78 102 104 111 95 92 103 95 93 1,134 16.9 1.66
Venereal Diseases... 60 64 82 75 83 66 92 82 95 73 53 70 895 13.3
Eye Diseases... 25 34 65 101 97 82 70 91 132 91 53 34 875 13.0
Abscess and Ulcer... 441 432 514 553 571 794 974 722 616 576 572 613 7,378 110.0
Wounds and Accidents... 204 222 228 249 295 303 333 211 234 196 199 186 2,860 42.7
All other Causes... 434 497 483 470 503 552 503 523 426 409 427 600 5,827 86.9
  4,705 3,923 4,496 4,828 4,856 5,070 5,754 7,937 8,757 7,960 6,182 5,443 69,911  
Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
  74.5 61.7 70.9 75.4 74.9 76.2 84.5 114.2 124.6 112.9 87.5 77.8 1042.9  

   *Contagious Fever in the Peshawur Jail in spring, and in the Rawulpindee Jail in the last quarter of the year, accounts for 83 of these deaths. The outbreak of
Typhus was confined to the Rawulpindee Jail.