Mortality of the British army : at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England ; illustrated by tables and diagrams.
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- 1858
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Credit: Mortality of the British army : at home and abroad, and during the Russian war, as compared with the mortality of the civil population in England ; illustrated by tables and diagrams. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.
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![li) General Retitrn Showing the Primary Admissions into the Hospitals of the Army in the East, from the 16th April, 1854, to the 30th June, 1856 ; also the Deaths from Primary as well as Secondary Admissions, together with those occurring on board Transports, conveying Sick and Wounded, during the same period.—Arranged According to the Classificatian of Causes of Death proposed by Dr. Fair, in the 16th Annual Report of the Registrar-General, pp. 82—96, so far as this is practicable under the imperfect system of nomenclature in use. Class. Causes of Death. Admissions Deaths. Class. Causes of Death. Admissions Deaths. All Causes 162,123 18,057 III. Diseases of the :— Specified Causes 161,297 17,712 1. Nervous System 4,051 117 2. Organs of Circulation 263 41 DISEASES:— 3. Respiratory Organs ... 4. Digestive Organs 2,607 4,592 384 84 I. Zymotio 112,651 14,507 5. Urinary Organs 239 6 II. Constitutional 828 204 6. Organs of Generation — — III. Local 25,043 668 7. Organs of Locomotion 129 1 IV. V. Developmental ■Violent 214 22,561 19 2,314 8. Integumentary System 13,162 35 IV. 1—3. Not occurring in the Army. — — ORDERS. 1. Miasmatic 108,577 14,503 V. 4. Diseases of Nutrition I. Accident 214 19 I. 2,484 532 2. Enthetic 3,74S 4 2. Battle 18,283 1,761 3. Dietic (included in 1 Order I.) ... J 3. Homicide .— 4. Suicide 20 20 4. Parasitic 326 — 5. Punishment and Exe- 1 cution.. 1,774 1 II. 1. Diathetic 458 84 2. Tubercular 370 120 Causes not Specified 826 345 Order 1. III. Order 1. I. Smallpox 21 4 Cephalitis ... 11 7 Measles 5 2 Apoplexy 87 70 Scarlatina ... 3 — Paralysis 42 10 Quinsey 924 9 Insanity (Dementia) 44 4 Erysipelas 78 21 Epilepsy 261 17 Phlebitis 3 — Tetanus 10 8 Typhus (and continued 1 Fever) ] 25,841 3,075 Cephalalgia Neuralgia ... 128 28 — Carbuncle ... * * Ophthalmitis 3,307 — Influenza ... 9,506 144 Otitis 133 1 Dysentery... Diarrhoea ... 8,278 44,164 2,259 3,651 Cholera 6,970 4,512 * Ague 2,406 60 Remittent Fever 2,957 311 III. Order 2. Rheumatism (Acute and 1 Chronic) J 5,044 233 Pericarditis 24 4 A TiAn riQin 9 8 29 ' 1 11 1 J l.ill mma amm _ , Heart Disease 127 Order 2. Varix .. Palpitatio 58 45 I. Syphilis 3,748 4 . Hydrophobia » * III. Order 3. Order 3. Epistaxis 10 _ I. Privation ... 1* 1* Laryngitis... * # Purpura and Scurvy Bronchitis... 1,688 199 (see above under Dy- V 2,096 178 Pleurisy ... 264 23 sentery) Pneumonia 590 161 Alcoholism (includes only 1 Asthma and Dyspnoea 55 1 Delirium Tremeus,other I 281 44 Other Lung Diseases . . — — cases not returned) Order 4. III. Order 4. I. Scabies 257 Gastritis ... 29 8 Worms 68 Enteritis ... 36 11 Dracununculus 1 — Peritonitis... Ascites 16 • 9 Ulceration of Intestines ... . V * II. Order 1. Hernia Ileus et Constipatio 101 1,862 2 5 Gout * * Intussusception 1 1 Dropsy 294 63 Stricture of Intestines ■ * Cancer et Tumores 62 1 Fistula 129 3 Mortification 79 20 Dyspepsia ... 906 3 Cachexia 23 — Htemorrhois TTnum i t.pmptiiQ 358 15 2 Singultus ... 1 II. Order 2. Pancreas ... Hepatitis ... 251 17 Scrofula 90 3 Jaundice ... 878 22 Phthisis 279 116 Other Liver Diseases * • Hydrocephalus 1 1 Spleen Disease 9 1 No admissions or deaths were returned under any of these heads.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20452433_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
