Report, on the medical topography and statistics, of the Mysore division of the Madras army / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Published by order of government.

  • Madras (India : Presidency). Medical Department.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report, on the medical topography and statistics, of the Mysore division of the Madras army / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Published by order of government. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    K,EKIAS.KS ©M THIS ©EKES.AI. TABLES. Bern arks on the The general tables of disease appended, will penoral tables of ^ ^ , diseases, shew the nature and amount oi sicKness ana mortality each year, for a period of ten years,^ from 1829 to 1838 inclusive, both in the European and native soldiery. That for the European troops gives 163 admissions per cent annually, on the strength, and 1’718 as the average an« nual per centage of deaths to the sick treated; whilst the per centage of deaths to strength has been 2-803. In the years 1833 and 1834 these averages were somew^hat exceeded, the increase being produced by cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea and fever. In the latter year as has been mentioned, an unusual state of the atmosphere prevailed. The general abstract table No. 2, which includes all the admissions and deaths during the ten years, shews that a considerable increase of sickness but more especially of morta¬ lity, has taken place during the first half yearly period, attri¬ butable to the influence of the south west monsoon ; at this time febrile disease and bowel complaints become prevalent, and the mortality from the latter, and from cholera, increase the number of deaths in the first half yearly period, nearly one third above that iir the second half of the year. The most numerous diseases have been fevers of the vari¬ ous types but especially t]ie continued, cholera, dysentery, diarr¬ hoea, hepatitis, rheumatism and syphilis ; and the most fatal have been dysentery, cholera, hepatitis, fevers and affections of the chest. The per centage of admissions from these diseases to the strength, and of deaths to the sick treated, will be at once seen on reference to the table No. 2. The tables No. 3 arrd 4, shew the amouirt of sickness and mortality amongst the native troops both at head quarters, and at the out stations in the division, for the same period of ten