NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.

IV.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS serving in the MEERUT DISTRICT and in
ROHILCUND during the Year 1876, 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 IN HOSPITAL. Died out of Hospital.
Cholera. Smallpox. Enteric Fever. Fever, Intermittent. Fever, Remittent and
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 4,322 121 28.0 3                           1     2      
February 5,191 201 38.7 5         1 1           2   1            
March 5,591 189 33.8 3                 1     1             1  
April 4,980 166 33.3 2                                 1   1  
May 4,807 155 32.2 5       1 1     2       1                
June 4,759 149 31.3 6   1       1               2     1   1  
July 4,882 126 25.8 2                 1       1              
August 4,933 199 40.3 3                       1   1           1
September 4,933 249 50.5 2                           1         1  
October 5,118 235 45.9 6         1       1         1     1   2  
November 5,432 170 31.3 6         3                 1     1   1  
December 5,429 143 26.3 2               1       1                
            1   1 6 2   3 3     6 1 8     6   7 1
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 5,031 175 34.8 45 8.95* .20   1.79     .60 .60     1.19 .20 1.59     1.19   1.39 .20
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       5 1.0 20.00
Smallpox   1     4               5 1.0  
Enteric Fever         1               1 .2  
Fever, Intermittent 121 147 78 79 146 85 96 461 547 470 186 115 2,531 503.1 .24
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued		 2 10 5     6 3   1 5 2 3 37 7.4 5.41
Apoplexy         1               1 .2  
Dysentery 45 25 11 9 21 11 12 28 20 31 35 36 284 56.5 1.35
Diarrhœa 12 35 6 6 13 10 13 14 14 14 13 9 159 31.6
Hepatitis   3   2     2 2   2     11 2.2  
Spleen Disease   2 2 1 5 3 2 6 7 8 4 1 41 8.1  
Respiratory Diseases 21 35 8 14 16 7 7 15 4 22 19 29 197 39.1 3.05
Phthisis Pulmonalis   4   1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 17 3.4 47.06
Dropsy                              
Scurvy   1                     1 .2  
Rheumatism 26 38 21 20 21 18 28 33 13 25 26 20 289 57.4 .62
Venereal Diseases 8 14 17 12 22 15 15 12 7 12 21 16 171 34.0
Eye Diseases 10 8 10 13 16 13 13 29 13 11 14 12 162 32.2
Abscess and Ulcer 17 29 32 25 31 26 19 42 22 33 36 32 344 68.4
Wounds and Accidents 80 94 52 75 63 44 52 69 54 67 57 93 800 159.0
All other Causes 39 80 33 39 51 36 22 40 36 42 40 26 484 96.2
  381 526 275 296 413 279 286 752 740 744 454 394 5,540    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  88.1 101.3 49.2 59.4 85.9 58.6 58.6 152.4 150.0 145.4 83.6 72.6 1101.2  

*For Statement of Absent Deaths, see Regimental Table XVI, Section 3.