NATIVE TROOPS, 1876.

IX.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the NATIVE TROOPS of the REGULAR ARMY and of the PUNJAB
FRONTIER FORCE serving TRANS-INDUS during the Year 1876, and the prevalence of the principal Diseases in each Month
of the Year.

(This Table contains the entire of the figures shown in the Statement for the Punjab Frontier Force, with the exception of the statistics of Abbottabad, as well as
the statistics of the Regiments of the Regular Native Army serving beyond the Indus already incorporated in the General Statement for the Punjab.)

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 Disease. Respiratory Diseases. Heart Diseases. Phthisis Pulmonalis. Dropsy. Scurvy. Atrophy and Anæmia. Wounds and Accidents. All other Causes.
January 14,443 598 41.4 23         2 3     1     14   1     1   1  
February 14,742 565 38.3 15     1         1       11             1 1
March 13,868 459 33.1 11           2   1       6 1       1      
April 12,925 364 28.2 20   12 1   1 2           1   1       1   1
May 12,232 363 29.7 4       1               1           1 1  
June 12,203 352 29.0 4           1 1 1           1            
July 12,071 344 28.5 6           1 2 1     1                 1
August 12,333 492 39.9 6         1 1 2                     1   1
September 12,336 715 58.0 9         1 4   2       1               1
October 12,644 979 77.4 46   35     2     3       1 1       2   2  
November 13,876 1,042 75.1 28   2     6 4   1 2     6 1   1 1 1   2 1
December 14,237 711 49.9 15         3 1     1     6       1     3  
            49 2 1 16 19 5 10 4   1 47 3 3 1 2 5 3 10 6
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 13,159 582 44.2 187 14.21 3.72 .15 2.74 .38 .76 .30   .08 3.57 .23 .23 .08 .15 .38 .23 .76 .45
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         2 53 4   88 6.7 55.68
Smallpox   1   1 1   1     1   1 6 .5 33.33
Enteric Fever         1               1 .1  
Fever, Intermittent 660 528 335 374 593 470 528 1,260 2,033 3,687 2,396 1,191 14,055 1068.1 .11
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued		 14 14 5 6 11 2 3 8 6 8 16 5 98 7.4 19.39
Apoplexy   1   2 1 2 3 1 1       11 .8 45.45
Dysentery 76 39 28 56 92 56 50 185 159 169 136 68 1,114 84.7 .81
Diarrhœa 25 28 12 41 42 27 38 125 67 89 79 41 614 46.7
Hepatitis   1 3   2 3 2 4     1 2 18 1.4
Spleen Disease 26 23 16 6 8 8 12 7 22 19 37 25 209 15.9 .48
Respiratory Diseases 166 199 109 75 67 24 24 46 48 38 68 138 1,002 76.1 4.69
Phthisis Pulmonalis 4 1 1 2 1   1 2     2   14 1.0 21.43
Dropsy                   2     2 .2  
Scurvy 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 1 6 25 1.9 8.00
Rheumatism 78 152 99 67 73 69 73 97 66 81 75 103 1,033 78.5 .34
Venereal Diseases 35 32 22 20 26 17 24 22 16 19 8 11 252 19.1
Eye Diseases 8 16 18 27 49 38 26 42 29 29 27 10 319 24.2
Abscess and Ulcer 98 112 68 64 121 129 152 234 132 146 135 120 1,511 114.8
Wounds and Accidents 110 158 84 134 161 136 115 152 139 148 149 119 1,596 121.3
All other Causes 101 137 128 126 151 107 126 172 134 106 112 126 1,526 116.0
  1,402 1,443 930 1,032 1,403 1,089 1,180 2,359 2,855 4,598 3,237 1,966 23,494    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  97.1 97.9 67.1 79.8 114.7 89.2 97.8 191.3 231.4 363.7 233.3 138.2 1785.4