JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1876.
I.
TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION of the BENGAL PRESIDENCY 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.
						Cholera.	Smallpox.	Enteric Fever.	Fever, Intermitttent.	Fevers, Remittent and Continued.	Apoplexy.	Dysentery.	Diarrhœa.	Hepatitis.	Spleen Disease.	Respiratory Diseases.	Heart Diseases.	Phithisis Pulmonalis.	Dropsy.	Scurvy.	Atrophy and Anæmia.	Wounds and Accidents.	All other Causes.
January	69,670	2,040	29.3	203	2.91	4	1		3	7	1	63	19		3	46		19	5		11	2	19
February	68,885	1,928	28.0	165	2.40	1	1		2	4		44	12	1	5	48		20	4		14		9
March	68,584	1,924	28.1	138	2.01	24		2	2	2	1	20	14	1		30		14	3		9	2	14
April	69,194	2,175	31.4	192	2.77	48			1	6	1	34	19		2	29	2	16	1		11	6	16
May	69,713	2,074	29.8	160	2.30	44	2		2	9	2	23	10	1	1	13		20	5		12	3	13
June	70,746	2,177	30.8	182	2.57	31	1	1	2	5	21	29	13			22	3	18	7		12	4	13
July	71,264	2,225	31.2	223	3.13	65		1	3	8	8	42	19		1	23		17	2		11	2	21
August	71,143	2,730	38.4	238	3.35	40		1	1	14	2	64	27		3	24	1	23	3		11	7	17
September	71,000	2,903	40.9	251	3.54	6			4	22		96	40		1	22	1	21	7	1	11	2	17
October	69,807	2,853	40.9	308	4.41	12		1	9	15	2	129	45	2	4	25	3	17	7		15	6	16
November	69,178	2,505	36.2	286	4.13	6			7	16	1	112	33	1		43		24	4		20	1	18
December	68,071	2,070	30.4	271	3.98	15			9	6	2	84	38	1		55	1	17	3		16	1	23
						296	5	6	45	114	41	740	289	7	20	380	11	226	51	1	153	36	196
						Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year	69,771	2,300	33.0	2,617	37.51	4.24	.07	2.36			.59	14.75		.10	.29	5.45	.16	3.24	.73	.01	2.19	.52	2.81

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	8		75	110	81	51	130	52	8	19	17	30	581	8.3	50.95
Smallpox	4	8	13	14	16	2		2	1	2	5	6	73	1.1	6.85
Enteric Fever	1	2	1		1	2	1	2	1	2			13	.2	46.15
Fever, Intermittent	1,535	1,187	1,414	2,043	2,036	2,045	2,205	3,996	5,085.	4,529	3,109	1,975	31,159	446.6	.14
Fevers, Remittent and Continued	52	33	56	47	47	37	65	87	128	105	63	28	748	10.7	15.24
Apoplexy	1		1	3	5	61	25	1		2	3	2	104	1.5	39.42
Dysentery	495	321	374	547	455	468	675	951	868	854	687	571	7,266	104.1	7.74
Diarrhœa	333	419	576	598	493	563	640	710	505	443	419	332	6,031	86.5
Hepatitis	6	6	2	3	5	1		3	9	2	7	4	48	.7	14.58
Spleen Disease	56	39	34	51	52	40	63	45	42	43	39	49	553	7.9	3.62
Respiratory Diseases	386	311	242	230	222	161	210	179	147	209	249	342	2,888	41.4	13.16
Phthisis Pulmonalis	31	17	31	35	38	32	38	23	19	24	31	19	338	4.8	66.86
Dropsy	20	18	15	18	21	23	18	11	14	22	21	24	225	3.2	22.67
Atrophy and Anæmia	105	93	65	105	106	138	117	113	123	118	133	130	1,346	19.3	11.37
Scurvy	7	16	21	18	5	9	25	22	44	43	27	22	259	3.7	.39
Rheumatism	110	82	107	100	105	129	114	76	97	99	107	96	1,222	17.5	1.26
Venereal Diseases	88	71	66	78	77	86	72	60	69	54	47	64	832	11.9
Eye Diseases	39	39	75	74	91	85	79	77	79	76	42	41	797	11.4
Abscess and Ulcer	601	580	639	743	850	933	943	666	578	564	439	485	8,021	115.0
Wounds and Accidents	181	216	259	301	279	299	285	235	198	170	154	129	2,706	38.8
All other Causes	453	589	699	505	463	445	520	486	436	419	376	373	5,764	82.6
	4,512	4,047	4,765	5,623	5,448	5,610	6,225	7,797	8,451	7,799	5,975	4,722	70,974
	Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.
	64.8	58.7	69.5	81.3	78.1	79.3	87.3	109.6	119.0	111.7	86.4	69.4	1017.2