Reports bringing up the statistical history of the European Army in India and of the Native Army and jail population of Bengal to 1876 : and the cholera history of 1875 and 1876, in continuation of reports embracing the period from 1817 to 1872 / by J.L.Bryden.

  • James Bryden
Date:
1878
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Credit: Reports bringing up the statistical history of the European Army in India and of the Native Army and jail population of Bengal to 1876 : and the cholera history of 1875 and 1876, in continuation of reports embracing the period from 1817 to 1872 / by J.L.Bryden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    Page The ratios of sickness, mortality and invaliding for the Army of Bengal, for the 15 years 1861—75, con- trasted in 5 year-periods 7 Venereal ratios of the Army of India and of the Three Presidencies, 1871—76 9 Eatios of special diseases contrasted in the Armies of the Three Presidencies ...... 13 Composition of 100 deaths in the armies of the Three Presidencies ....... 14 Comparative death-table for the Three Presidencies, detailing Jhe chief causes of mortality ... 14 Composition of 100 cases of invaliding in the Armies of the Three Presidencies . . . . . 15 Comparative invaliding table for the Three Presidencies, detailing the chief causes of invaliding . . 15 The aggregate of the sickness and mortality in the Army of India during the five years from 1871 to 1875, and the prevalence of the principal diseases in each month ...... 16 Comparative statement of the annual ratios of sickness and mortality for the Army of India for each year from 1871 to 1876, and the ratios for the Ai'mies of the Three Presidencies contrasted on the results of the five years, 1871—75 17 CHAPTER II. Strengtli of the Army of different periods of Indian Service .18 Proportion present at the different periods of residence 19 Strength of the Army at different ages 19 Army of 1876.Distribution of the Strength by age and length of service in India . . . . 20 How 100 deaths are composed at different periods of Indian service (Army of India, 1873—76) . . 21 Deaths of 1873—76 detailed; the death-rates and comparative liability to death at the different periods of Indian service 22 Parallel table for 1876 only . 22 Composition of 100 deaths at the earliest and latest periods of Indian service ..... 23 Invaliding in relation to age and length of Indian service, and to both combined .... 23 Series of Eight Tables illustrating tTie delation of the Invaliding of the Army to Length of Residence in India. 1. —Table showing in each year, and for the Armies of the Three Presidencies, the number of men in- valided at different periods of Indian service, the ratio per 1,000 of strength, and the percentage of the total invaliding as distributed in relation to length of service in India . . 25 2. —Invaliding of the Army of India, showing the ages of the men invalided from all causes, and the number of years of Indian service completed .......... 26 3. —Invaliding of the Army of India, 1871—75, showing the causes of invaliding, and the length of Indian service of the men who broke down from the different causes ....... 26 4. —Detailed statement showing how, and in what proportion the men of the Army of India of 1871—75 have been invalided in relation to length of residence in India . , 27 6.—Parallel statement for the Army of Bengal 28 6. —Parallel statement for the Army of Madras . .29 7. —Parallel statement for the Army of Bombay , . . . 30 8. —Parallel statement for the Army of India of 1876 . 31 How 100 cases of invaliding are made up in young, mature and old soldiers respectively ... 33 Standard of 1811—15 for Invaliding in relation to Age—a series of four tables. 1. —Table showing the number of men of the Army of India of 1871—75, invalided at the different ages, the loss per 1,000, and the comparative liability to invaliding from the chief diseases in relation to age 34 2. —Parallel statement for the Army of Bengal ........... 35 3. —Parallel statement for the Army of Madras 36 4. —Parallel statement for the Army of Bombay ........... 37 Parallel table for the Army of India of 1876 38 L lability to death at different ages—the standard for Bengal of 1865—70 compared with that of 1871—76 39 Detailed death-ratios extending the range of age from below 20 to 40 and upwards .... 40 Series of Four Tables shoioing the Mortality of the Army of India in relation to Age. 1. —The number and causes of deaths at the different ages from 1871 to 1875 in the Army of India, the ratio of deaths to strength, and the comparative liability to death in relation to age from the chief causes of mortality ............. 41 2. —Parallel table for the Army of Bengal 42 3. —Parallel table for the Army of Madras 43 4. —Parallel table for the Army of Bombay ............ 44 The parallel tables for the Army of India of 1876 follow:— 1. —Army of India 45 2. —Army of Bengal 46 3. —Army of Madras . 47 4. —Army of Bombay 48 CHAPTEE III. Sickness and mortality in the first twelve months of Indian service of the regiments which arrived in India between 1871 and 1875, and the prevalence of the chief diseases in each month . . 52 Parallel table for the new regiments of 1876 ........... 54 Comparative statement showing the ratios of sickness and mortality of the regiments new to India, in each year from 1871 to 1876 . 53 Admission-rates and death-rates of the same body of the first and second years contrasted ... 55 Deaths of regiments in the fii'st and second years of Indian service and their causes, shown in relation to age (1871—76) ! . 56 The constitution of the invahding-rate of Eegiments in the first and second years (1871—76) . . 57 Admissions and deaths from enteric fever in the first year of Indian service in all regiments and batteries which arrived between 1871 and 1877 58 .
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