Medical topography and statistics of the Presidency of Madras : compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.
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- 1843-1844
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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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![No. 17.— Table exhibiting the amount of sickness and mortality amongst the European Troops stationed at Cannanore^ during the years ]839_, 40 and 1841. Years. j Admissions and I deaths. 1 Apoplexy. 1 Cholera. Fevers. Dysentery. Hepatitis. 1 Diarrhoea. i 1 Thoracic Dis- eases. Rheumatism. Syphilis. Average strength each year. Annual per centage of sick to strength. — — 1 Annual percent- age of deaths to sick treated. Annual percent- age of deaths to strength. Admitted. i 1st Half. 530 2 0 50 94 20 42 47 34 50 o \ 2d Half. 465 0 0 51 122 19 39 54 28 18 ) CO GO 593 167 -790 3 -115 5 -227 Died. i 1st Half. 4 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 j 2d Half. 27 0 « 4 17 4 1 0 1 0 I Admiffprl ( 1st Half. 672 1 0 70 185 77 26 63 34 54 \ o ( 2d Half. 679 0 0 43 221 71 25 6i 24 35 1 659 205 -007 4 *737 9 -711 Dipd i 1st Half. 37 1 0 3 28 5 0 0 0 0 1 I 2d Half. 27 0 0 1 20 5 0 0 0 0 i 1 Admitted. ( 1st Half. 783 0 0 71 195 53 67 87 21 97 1 \ 2d Half. 1178 0 0 148 233 77 95 185 21 37 00 812 241 '502 2 '396 5 -788 0^ Died ( 1st Half. 16 0 0 1 8 5 0 1 0 0 } 2d Half. 31 0 0 5 14 5 3! 2 0 0 J The medical Officers in charge of H. M.’s Regiments men- tion, as the principal causes of these grave diseases,-dysentery and hepatitis,-besides the general effects of a tropical climate, insufficient accommodation for the men in barracks, and want of due ventilation ;-the intemperate habits of the soldiery, and exposure when in a state of intoxication. The opinion on this point of the superintending surgeon is given in the fol- lowing extracts from his general reports, on the health of the troops for 1837, 40 and 1841. Dysentery has prevailed to a great extent, and has prov- ed more fatal during the past six months than for many years previously ; it has its origin in my opinion, principally from intemperance, and the exposure consequent thereon; nor do I see any prospect of preventing the disease amongst the European soldiery, whilst they have every facility for pro- curing pernicious fermented liquors so common at Cannanore. The mortality from dysentery has been 15, from hepatitis 5, and from fever 3. Dated 1st July 1837. The same Authority, talking of the causes of the increase of sickness and mortaility in 1840 and 1841, says, I am of opinion that intemperance in the use of partially](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21935725_0593.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
