NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.

VIII.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS composing the PUNJAB IRREGULAR FORCE
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 11,193 486 43.4 17       1 2 3           9   1     1      
February 11,009 425 38.6 12     1         1       8             1 1
March 10,877 341 31.3 6           2   1       2         1      
April 9,992 285 28.5 19   12 1   1 2           1   1       1    
May 9,532 288 30.2 2                       1             1  
June 9,541 276 28.9 2           1   1                        
July 9,413 259 27.5 5           1 1 1     1                 1
August 9,573 346 36.1 5         1 1 1                     1   1
September 9,501 483 50.8 8         1 3   2       1               1
October 9,763 638 65.4 25   17     1     2         1       2   2  
November 10,646 712 66.9 21         3 3   1 2     6 1   1   1   2 1
December 11,235 555 49.4 11         2 1           5             3  
            29 2 1 11 17 2 9 2   1 33 2 2 1   5 2 9 5
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 10,189 424 41.6 133 13.05 2.84 .20 2.84 .20 .88 .20   .10 3.23 .20 .20 .10   .49 .20 .88 .49
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       29       1   25     55 5.4 52.73
Smallpox   1   1 1   1     1   1 6 .6 33.33
Enteric Fever                   1 1 1 3 .3 33.33
Fever, Intermittent 455 352 241 283 468 322 343 858 1,158 2,170 1,449 767 8,866 870.2 .12
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued		 13 13 6 5 11 5 10 13 9 13 14 6 118 11.6 14.41
Apoplexy         1 1 2   1       5 .5 40.00
Dysentery 57 21 16 43 76 48 38 135 113 92 76 47 762 74.8 .96
Diarrhœa 18 10 6 27 30 18 24 96 56 38 37 30 390 38.3
Hepatitis   1 4   3 4 2 3     4 5 26 2.5  
Spleen Disease 17 20 10 3 14 4 7 6 9 13 24 17 144 14.1 .70
Respiratory Diseases 126 120 67 54 49 18 10 32 29 29 51 123 708 69.5 4.66
Phthisis Pulmonalis 2   1 2 1   1 1 1   3 1 13 1.3 15.38
Dropsy                   2     2 .2  
Scurvy 1 1 2 2 2 1 1     1 1 5 17 1.7  
Rheumatism 58 88 51 51 47 52 45 57 40 53 53 67 662 65.0 .38
Venereal Diseases 25 22 20 21 25 15 16 12 16 23 10 13 218 21.4
Eye Diseases 3 11 17 20 35 34 28 37 32 23 23 8 271 26.6
Abscess and Ulcer 82 90 58 57 87 86 125 168 109 112 102 96 1,172 115.0
Wounds and Accidents 97 118 72 113 123 90 89 123 122 138 100 90 1,275 125.1
All other Causes 79 103 92 104 126 96 91 132 108 87 82 81 1,181 115.9
  1,033 971 663 815 1,099 794 833 1,674 1,803 2,821 2,030 1,358 15,894    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
  92.3 88.2 60.9 81.6 115.3 83.2 88.5 174.9 189.8 289.0 190.7 120.9 1560.0  

     Calculated on a Strength of 12,189, the Total Strength, absent as well as present, the Death-rate of the year is 14.69 per 1,000—the equivalent of 179 deaths.
The Gain and Loss Statement for the Frontier Force for the year is as under:—

Strength borne on the Regimental rolls on 1st January 1876 12,278
Additions received during the year 1,155
TOTAL 13,433
Deaths at head-quarters and in Detachments 133; died while on furlough and sick leave 46; invalided for discharge 319;
transfers given 18; discharged otherwise 645		 1,161
Remaining on the rolls at the close of 1876 12,272