NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.

VI.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS serving in the PUNJAB 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. Fevers, Remittent and
Continued.		 Apoplexy. Dysentery. Diarrhœa. Hepatitis. Spleen Disease. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atrophy and Anæmia. Wounds and Accidents. All other Causes.
January 16,775 559 33.3 16                 1     12   1         2  
February 17,064 581 34.0 10         1             5   1 1   1   1  
March 16,659 530 31.8 13         1 1   2       5 1 1     1   1  
April 15,214 436 28.7 8             1       1 5               1
May 14,335 392 27.3 6       1   1   1       1   1       1    
June 14,334 391 27.3 9   2       2 1     1     1 1           1
July 14,518 400 27.5 7   1   1   1 2         2                
August 14,650 612 41.8 5   2     1   1                       1  
September 14,703 1,079 73.4 5   1       1               2         1  
October 15,389 1,272 82.7 33   19     2 5   1 1   1 3     1          
November 16,601 1,127 67.9 25   2     8 3 1 2       4 1     1 2   1  
December 16,560 693 41.8 28   1     6       1     17 1     1       1
            28   2 19 14 6 6 3 1 2 54 4 7 2 2 4 1 7 3
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 15,567 673 43.2 165 10.61* 1.80   2.25 .38 .38 .20 .07 .13 3.47 .25 .45 .13 .13 .25 .07 .45 .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           2 1 6 4 29 4 1 47 3.0 59.57
Smallpox     1                   1 .1  
Enteric Fever         1 2 2     1     6 .4 33.33
Fever, Intermittent 660 576 389 410 602 546 583 1,935 3,991 4,861 2,538 1,068 18,159 1166.5 .10
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued		 4 3 5 3 11 5 4 16 18 31 8 3 111 7.1 12.61
Apoplexy   1   2   1 2 2     1   9 .6 66.67
Dysentery 59 38 34 39 72 40 41 114 125 212 127 82 983 63.2 .62
Diarrhœa 36 29 20 27 27 31 29 70 33 76 62 38 478 30.7
Hepatitis   1 4 3 5 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 24 1.5 4.17
Spleen Disease 17 9 11 6 11 12 8 4 16 20 35 24 173 11.1 1.16
Respiratory Diseases 148 174 107 79 81 34 36 47 46 64 105 139 1,060 68.1 5.10
Phthisis Pulmonalis 3 4 4 5 1 1 5 2   2   1 28 1.8 25.00
Dropsy 1           1   2       4 .3 50.00
Atrophy and Anæmia                              
Scurvy   2     3 1 1 3 1 3 2 3 19 1.2 10.53
Rheumatism 112 178 109 48 62 60 51 78 66 79 70 91 1,004 64.5 .24
Venereal Diseases 41 52 35 29 28 28 38 39 16 35 28 22 391 25.1
Eye Diseases 25 25 13 26 53 52 49 90 44 42 21 14 454 29.2
Abscess and Ulcer 91 106 58 57 96 106 151 194 105 117 107 101 1,289 82.8
Wounds and Accidents 187 238 128 151 163 177 146 207 148 178 192 196 2,111 135.6
All other Causes 95 139 126 119 124 70 110 133 91 112 120 114 1,353 86.9
  1,479 1,575 1,044 1,004 1,340 1,170 1,260 2,942 4,707 5,863 3,421 1,899 27,704    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  88.2 92.3 62.7 66.0 93.5 81.6 86.8 200.8 320.1 381.0 206.1 114.1 1779.7  

*For Statement of Absent Deaths, see Regimental Table XVI, Section5.