Medical topography and statistics of the Presidency of Madras : compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.

Date:: 1843-1844

Credit: Medical topography and statistics of the Presidency of Madras : compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$JAIZ. OF MANGAX.ORE. No. 6.— Table exhibiting the number of Admissions and deaths of th Prisoners under Trial, from each class of disease, for ten years. Admissions & deaths from each class of disease. tal admissions jm each class. o >- . *■' orj X X iicC X o ri O teS 1st Half. 2d Half. ■a _ a « o 3 Ad. Dd. Ad. Dd. O .1- o cu }.. 2 59 6 75 8 9 * *842 27 17 2 2 29 19 3 *805 \ ( 276 1 12 487 62 763 74 100 *131 :l ■ 0 2 0 3 0 0 *393 ) 13 2 5 0 18 0 2 *462 !! 1 49 i 73 8 ’ 9 *580 ii ^ 1 4 3 7 4 0 *918 3 4 0 5 0 9 0 1 *181 0 1 2 0 ) 0 5 0 A# 0 0 *918 0 5 19 0 ) 10 59 30 78 40 10 *236 0 3 c 4 0 1 7 0 0 *918 0 4 c 40 0 44 q 5 *774 6 29 s 69 c •98 +8 12 *800 6 421 4’ 7 791 116 1212 163 159 *055 CLASSES. DISEASES. Fevers. (Febrisephemera ,, intermittents quot.. rerai com. cont... Cholera I ,, remittens. > S9 Diseases of / Diarrhoea the Abdo- J Dysenteria acu- minal vis- j ta et chronica, cera I Obstipatio From 1829 to 1839 exclusive of 1831. Aggregate strength 762. 1st Half. Ad. Ud. iCatarrhus Asthma Phthisis pulmo- nalis Mania. EruptiveFe- | Variola. vers I Varicella. ] i Anasarca. Dropsies.... _ Rheumatic aflections. Rheiimat. acu- tus etchronicus. Verierealaf-(®yf^“^ ^ fections ^ consecutiva.. 3 12 0 1 27 194 81 1 0 1 0 13 11 13 1 2 2d Half. Ad. Dd. 1 0 1 17 4 8 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 Specific dis- I ’ ( Scrophula. eases, Diseases of ( Morbi the Eye.. ( rum. Oculo- Do. „ Skin. „ Cutis Other diseases.. Total.. 2 0 16 3 0 3 4 29 18 41 0 0 2 365 105 17 0 2 0 5 47 2 4 0 49 421 47 5 0 45 14 1 4 40 69 791 116 CJ . to * sJ 3 0 ■t-t Jr ** C * S * t A 10 -IK 6j -51 0 HK 0 *01 10 57 *11 0 *0{ 0 -a 51 ‘1 0 -91 0 *0| 8 *11 13 *4 Note.—Per centage of deaths to strenj^th, 21*391. * Of this number 45 were c.ases of ulcus. _ s r i > Six of which were under the head ulcus, one fromvulnus sclopiterum and one from vulnus inciJ$