JAILS OF THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY, 1876.

VI.

TABLE showing the SICKNESS and MORTALITY among the JAIL POPULATION in the ROHILCUND and MEERUT
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 7,336 131 17.9 20           1   6 2     8   2         1
February 7,223 131 18.1 22               7 1     12   1         1
March 7,273 140 19.2 5               1 1                   3
April 7,403 168 22.7 7           1   3       1   1         1
May 7,481 139 18.6 13           2   2       2   2     2   3
June 7,905 124 15.7 12           1 2   1     2   1     3 1 1
July 8,016 127 15.8 6           1   2       1             2
August 8,108 193 23.8 19           2   5 2   1 4   2     2 1  
September 8,204 220 26.8 27           1   11 4     5   1     2   3
October 8,040 277 34.5 64           3   45 5   1 5     1   2 1 1
November 7,805 208 26.6 35           1   20       6   3     5    
December 7,648 167 21.8 34               16 1     16         1    
                    13 2 118 17   2 62   13 1   17 3 16
            Died per 1,000 of the Average Strength.
For the year 7,704 169 21.9 264 34.27     1.69 .26 17.52   .26 8.05   1.69 .13   2.20 .39 2.08
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                              
Smallpox                              
Enteric Fever                              
Fever, Intermittent 71 54 94 115 173 114 71 343 350 267 167 93 1,912 248.2  
" Remittent and
Continued		 1   4 5 8 2 3 10 9 7 4   53 6.9 24.53
Apoplexy           6 2           8 1.0 25.00
Dysentery 16 11 24 27 17 23 24 33 57 154 73 49 508 65.9 19.23
Diarrhœa 13 11 10 20 12 11 13 36 22 14 15 17 194 25.2
Hepatitis 1   1               1   3 .4  
Spleen Disease 2 1   2   1 4 1   5 1 1 18 2.3 11.11
Respiratory Diseases 31 26 25 13 13 7 14 13 15 15 18 30 220 28.6 28.18
Phthisis Pulmonalis 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1   17 2.2 76.47
Dropsy                 1   1   2 .3  
Atrophy and Anæmia 5 9 5 11 3 11 9 9 31 21 17 13 144 18.7 11.80
Scurvy                              
Rheumatism 11 6 9 12 4 12 7 1 5 3 7 7 84 10.9 1.63
Venereal Diseases 12 7 7 7 6 2 12 3 4 4 10 4 78 10.1
Eye Diseases 2 4 11 6 5 9 7 3 11 7 3 5 73 9.5
Abscess and Ulcer 26 48 43 48 32 38 70 32 26 32 20 18 433 56.2
Wounds and Accidents 17 16 27 45 36 32 27 11 20 25 11 15 282 36.6
All other Causes 12 23 23 26 18 19 22 17 18 12 14 10 214 27.8
  222 218 284 338 328 288 288 514 571 567 363 262 4,243    
  Admitted per 1,000 of the Average Strength in each Month.    
  30.3 30.2 39.0 45.7 43.9 36.4 35.9 63.4 69.6 70.5 46.5 34.3 550.8  

          1876.

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