JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1876.

II.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in LOWER BENGAL and in ASSAM
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, 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 16,933 702 41.5 75   4 1   1 3   22 8   2 13   12 4   2   3
February 17,117 660 38.6 76   1     1 1   20 7 1 4 14   14 3   6   4
March 17,159 672 39.2 56   14   2 1 1   9 5 1   10   7     2 1 3
April 17,393 725 41.7 87   30       3 1 14 8   2 5   13     4 1 6
May 17,485 634 36.3 84   30 2   1 4   13 3 1   1   15 3   4 1 6
June 17,667 663 37.5 69   13 1 1       20 6     7 1 11 2   4 1 2
July 17,661 726 41.1 74   16     1 4   16 6   1 7   10 2   6 2 3
August 17,536 730 41.6 59   1   1   6 1 14 6     6   13 3   2 1 5
September 17,358 734 42.3 48           5   1 6   1   1 7 3   4    
October 17,002 713 41.9 84   7       3   30 9   3 4 2 12 2   3 2 7
November 17,027 692 40.6 85   6       3 1 28 6     14   13 1   4 1 8
December 16,706 639 38.2 81   15     3 1   17 11 1   5   11     4   13
            137 4 4 8 34 3 224 81 4 13 86 4 138 23   45 10 60
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 17,254 691 40.0 878 50.89 7.94 .23 2.67 .18 17.68 .23 .75 4.98 .23 8.00 1.33   2.61 .58 3.48
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   45 79 52 24 24 6 1 12 17 30 298 17.3 45.97
Smallpox       6 15 1   1         23 1.3 17.39
Enteric Fever   2 1     1 1 2   1     8 .5 50.00
Fever, Intermittent 574 493 479 556 510 651 827 761 859 857 819 618 8,004 463.9 .10
Fevers, Remittent and
Continued		 20 27 36 29 26 24 50 37 21 18 22 12 322 18.7 10.56
Apoplexy       1           1 1   4 .2 75.00
Dysentery 226 163 174 308 219 238 348 335 327 283 281 268 3,170 183.7 4.96
Diarrhœa 181 275 344 309 274 337 278 247 164 209 196 166 2,980 172.7
Hepatitis 5 4     3     1 5 1 3 3 25 1.4 16.00
Spleen Disease 27 22 19 34 33 21 39 28 28 10 11 21 293 17.0 4.44
Respiratory Diseases 104 79 77 61 58 53 73 45 40 70 76 66 802 46.5 10.72
Phthisis Pulmonalis 23 8 20 23 25 23 22 15 8 11 18 15 211 12.2 65.40
Dropsy 13 14 12 13 16 18 14 8 8 13 13 18 160 9.3 14.38
Atrophy and Anæmia 38 40 36 38 35 43 49 52 41 36 45 49 502 29.1 8.96
Scurvy 6 7 9 12 3 9 19 14 12 6 21 17 135 7.8  
Rheumatism 38 20 50 38 46 59 41 23 32 41 45 37 470 27.2 1.38
Venereal Diseases 24 26 23 25 26 35 29 25 32 17 16 23 301 17.5
Eye Diseases 4 15 18 9 13 19 17 15 23 29 8 7 177 10.3
Abscess and Ulcer 123 100 119 124 137 154 151 118 145 138 80 111 1,500 86.9
Wounds and Accidents 45 69 76 80 80 71 68 72 69 44 48 48 770 44.6
All other Causes 200 268 329 172 158 149 158 149 161 129 137 158 2,168 125.7
  1,659 1,632 1,867 1,917 1,729 1,930 2,208 1,955 1,976 1,926 1,857 1,667 22,323    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  98.0 95.3 108.8 110.2 98.9 109.2 125.0 111.5 113.8 113.3 109.1 99.8 1293.8