JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1876.

III.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in CHOTA NAGPORE and in the DINAPORE,
BENARES, OUDH, and CAWNPORE DISTRICTS 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. 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 23,939 492 20.6 33         1 1   9 4   1 6   2     2   7
February 23,547 499 21.2 26           1   6 3     6   2 1   3   4
March 23,352 520 22.3 48   9       1 1 7 7     9   4 2   4   4
April 23,604 533 22.6 59   18       1   9 5     9 2 2 1   4 2 6
May 23,837 499 20.9 34   13         2 5 3     2   2 1   3 1 2
June 24,056 531 22.1 63   18       3 15 7 3     1 2 3 5   3   3
July 24,265 629 25.9 108   47       1 3 19 13     5   6     3   11
August 24,266 673 27.7 96   30       1 1 32 11   2 6   5     2   6
September 24,251 639 26.3 83   1     1 2   34 16     10   5 2   3 1 8
October 24,072 611 25.4 84   1   1 1 3 1 32 19 1   6 1 3 3   7 2 3
November 23,876 578 24.2 56           3   26 9     5   4     6   3
December 23,558 461 19.6 56         2 1 1 22 10     8   2 2   4   4
            137   1 5 18 24 208 103 1 3 73 5 40 17   44 6 61
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 23,885 555 23.2 746 31.23 5.74   1.00 1.00 13.02 .04 .13 3.06 .21 1.68 .71   1.84 .25 2.55
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     28 31 28 26 95 31   1     240 10.1 57.08
Smallpox 4 7 11 8 1 1     1 2 4 5 44 1.8  
Enteric Fever         1       1       2 .1  
Fever, Intermittent 258 236 278 473 273 279 409 465 523 695 462 270 4,621 193.5 .11
„ Remittent and
Continued		 6 3 13 9 6 8 8 8 28 9 11 7 116 4.9 15.52
Apoplexy     1   3 45 6       2 1 58 2.4 41.38
Dysentery 93 58 82 86 104 129 191 299 228 197 135 109 1,711 71.6 8.96
Diarrhœa 92 78 162 191 142 152 242 235 188 120 94 65 1,761 73.7
Hepatitis   2 1 2 1 1   2 3     1 13 .5 7.70
Spleen Disease 15 7 2 8 10 11 14 6 6 4 15 11 109 4.6 2.75
Respiratory Diseases 73 70 49 59 52 37 50 46 36 48 48 74 642 26.9 11.37
Phthisis Pulmonalis 2 3 8 5 6 5 8 4 3 5 7 2 58 2.4 68.96
Dropsy 4 2 3 4 4 5 3 1 4 8 3 1 42 1.7 40.48
Atrophy and Anæmia 35 23 14 25 27 51 34 32 22 27 24 29 343 14.4 12.83
Scurvy   3 1 4     2 2 16 33 3   64 2.7  
Rheumatism 27 32 21 26 25 27 41 31 29 24 26 24 333 13.9 1.19
Venereal Diseases 20 17 18 23 26 23 13 19 21 21 11 21 233 9.8
Eye Diseases 16 8 20 32 39 36 32 28 27 17 22 14 291 12.2
Abscess and Ulcer 188 174 182 171 192 275 313 198 152 131 137 163 2,279 95.4
Wounds and Accidents 81 85 95 110 110 135 132 84 73 58 57 33 1,053 44.1
All other Causes 142 194 201 183 151 134 189 141 123 138 120 118 1,834 76.8
  1,056 1,002 1,190 1,450 1,201 1,380 1,782 1,632 1,484 1,541 1,181 948 15,847    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  44.1 42.5 51.0 61.4 50.4 57.4 73.4 67.3 61.2 64.0 49.5 40.2 663.5