JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1873.

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TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in LOWER BENGAL and in ASSAM
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. Smallpox. Enteric Fever. Fever, Intermittent. Fever, Intermittent and Continued. Apoplexy. Dysentary. Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Spleen Disease. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atrophy and Anæmia. Wounds and Accidents. All other Causes.
January... 15,559 566 36.4 60 ... 3 ... ... 1 1 ... 24 4 ... 1 7 2 4 4 ... 3 2 4
February... 15,844 504 31.8 32 ... 1 ... ... ... 2 ... 12 5 ... ... 6 ... 2 1 ... 2 ... 1
March... 15,872 516 32.5 47 ... 8 ... ... 2 3 ... 12 2 ... 1 9 ... 4 1 ... 3 ... 2
April... 15,958 535 33.5 56 ... 12 ... 1 1 2 3 11 6 ... 2 3 1 8 1 ... 3 ... 2
May... 16,015 521 32.5 49 ... 10 1 ... ... 3 ... 15 7 ... ... 3 ... 3 1 ... 2 3 1
June... 16,297 509 31.2 46 ... 9 ... ... 1 2 1 9 3 ... ... 6 ... 8 1 ... 2 2 2
July... 16,419 598 36.4 33 ... 7 ... ... 1 2 ... 7 5 ... 1 3 1 2 ... ... 2 1 1
August... 16,499 673 40.8 95 ... 34 ... ... 1 3 1 17 9 ... ... 8 3 4 2 ... 5 1 7
September... 16,459 660 40.1 77 ... 14 ... ... 1 1 2 32 8 1 1 2 1 6 1 ... 1 1 5
October... 16,278 643 39.5 68 ... 1 ... ... ... 1 2 25 17 ... ... 6 4 4 4 ... 2 ... 2
November... 16,321 662 40.6 85 ... 5 ... 1 2 3 3 23 16 ... ... 6 2 9 4 ... 2 ... 9
December... 16,241 642 39.5 69 ... ... ... ... ... 3 ... 20 13 ... 3 7 3 7 5 ... 4 1 3
  104 1 2 10 26 12 207 95 1 9 66 17 61 25 ... 31 11 39
  Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year... 16,147 586 36.3 717 44.40 6.44 .06 2.35 .74 18.70 .06 .56 4.09 1.05 3.78 1.55 ... 1.92 .68 2.42
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 1 25 28 38 14 23 80 12 3 16 4 248 15.4 41.94
Smallpox... ... 1 1 1 1 1 ... ... 1 3 ... 3 12 .7 8.33
Enteric Fever... ... ... 1 ... ... ... 1 ... ... 1 ... ... 3 .2 ...
Fever, Intermittent... 548 417 543 556 496 397 581 844 777 841 886 696 7,582 469.6 .13
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued...		 8 10 10 10 6 13 9 13 9 17 11 19 135 8.4 19.26
Apoplexy... 1 ... ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 2 ... 3 ... 12 .7 100.00
Dysentery... 222 136 161 205 221 194 266 370 350 246 260 314 2,945 182.4 4.71
Diarrhœa... 218 176 323 237 233 290 436 370 315 320 276 264 3,458 214.2
Hepatitis... 4 ... 1 ... 1 2 3 1 3 ... 2 3 20 1.2 5..00
Spleen Disease... 36 22 20 24 25 23 31 27 25 22 21 22 298 18.4 3.02
Respiratory Diseases... 50 46 50 42 43 43 42 53 38 48 41 37 533 33.0 12.38
Phthisis Pulmonalis... 8 8 8 3 8 9 9 3 7 14 7 17 101 6.2 60.40
Dropsy... 7 7 8 7 9 11 10 8 10 12 9 27 125 7.7 20.00
Atrophy and Anæmia... 10 6 10 15 16 29 216 72 79 94 138 69 754 46.7 4.11
Scurvy... 11 8 6 10 19 25 17 10 21 16 7 4 154 9.5 ...
Rheumatism... 32 34 33 37 30 32 33 28 28 26 31 32 376 23.3 1.53
Venereal Diseases... 18 19 16 20 22 11 14 16 29 10 18 22 215 13.3
Eye Diseases... 3 10 15 13 8 14 15 14 12 17 10 4 135 8.4
Abscess and Ulcer... 61 54 92 90 69 97 106 81 69 80 74 99 972 60.2
Wounds and Accidents... 41 51 45 58 83 66 80 45 45 52 49 56 671 41.6
All other Causes... 168 215 148 182 191 198 162 148 128 121 144 213 2,018 125.0
  1,450 1,221 1,516 1,541 1,519 1,471 2,054 2,184 1,960 1,943 2,003 1,905 20,767  
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
93.2 77.0 95.5 96.6 94.8 90.3 125.1 132.4 119.1 119.4 122.7 117.3 1286.1  

   1873.

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