Volume 1
Statistical reports on the health of the Navy for the years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836.
- British Admiralty Office
- Date:
- [1840-1841]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistical reports on the health of the Navy for the years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Table No. 1. Showing the Total Number of Cases; the Number of all Diseases and Injuries, in Classes; the Number of Cases sent to Hospital, Invalided and Dead; with the Ratio of each per 1,000 of mean Strength. Year 1834. (-. ' (TASS AND ORDER OF DISEASE. Number of Cases. Ratio per 1,000 of mean Strength. Sent to Hospital. Ratio per 1,000 of mean Strength. Invalided on the Station. Ratio per 1,000 of mean Strength. Died on the Station. Ratio per 1,000 of mean Strength. Febrile Diseases : ]. Fevers, continued, remittent and in¬ termittent - 456 204-4 4 1-8 2. Inflammation, with fever, including acute inflammation of the lungs, of the liver,of the bowels, and the brain 914 409-7 5 2-2 14 6-3 4 1-8 . 3. Eruptive fevers, including erysi¬ pelas, small-pox and scarlet fever 11 4-9 , — _ _ — 4. Hemorrhages, with fever, includ¬ ing consumption of the lungs and expectoration of blood 14 6-3 3 1-3 3 1-3 3 1-3 5. Fluxes, with fever, including dy¬ sentery and acute catarrh - 370 165-9 1 -4 - 2 '9 Nervous Diseases: 1. Soporose diseases, including apo¬ plexy, palsy, and some varieties of head-ache ... - 32 14-3 i 1 / •4 4 1-8 2. Defect of vital power, including dys¬ pepsia and chronic general debility 78 34-9 . 2 •9 1 •4 3. Spasmodic diseases, including diar¬ rhoea, cholera, colic and epilepsy 367 164-5 1 •4 3 1-3 — — 4. Mental diseases; derangement of mind, from whetever cause, in¬ cluding the delirium of drunkards 8 3-6 - - 5 2-2 — — Cachectic Diseases: 1. Emaciation of the body, including intestinal worms, and certain ob¬ scure consumptive diseases of the alimentary system ... 4 1-8 2. Swellings ; dropsies ... 7 3-1 - 4 18 1 *4 3. Cutaneous diseases, including sy¬ philis, scrofula and jaundice 95 42-6 o •9 3 1-3 — Local Diseases : 1. Diseases of the senses, including non-inflammatory affections of the eye and ear - 2 •9 « 2 •9 2. Depraved appetites ... — — — -- — — ;- — 3. Ditto - - motions - — — -* — — _i 4. Increased discharges, including gonorrhoea - 35 15*7 - 2 •9 — — 5. Obstructions, including constipa¬ tion of the bowels and dysury 73 32-7 - 2 •9 — / 0. Tumours, including aneurism, va¬ ricose veins and bubo 239 | 107-1 2 •9 2 •9 — — 7. Protrusions, including dislocation and rupture - 46 20-6 - - 1 •4 — — 8. Solutions or destruction of parts, in¬ cluding wounds, ulcers, and the majority of accidental injuries - 652 292-2 - - 9 •4 2 •9 Mean strength employed - 2,231 3,403 1525-3 14 6-3 53 23*8 21 9-5 Deduct for wounds, accidents and 565 . 5 2 — slight hurts - - - - -J Remain on the list, &c, from disease - 2,838 1272-1 14 6-3 48 2U5 19 8-5 1525-3 being the ratio sick per 1,000 of mean strength, it may be assumed that every man was on the sick list once in about eight months. In addition to the mor¬ tality which took place on the station, thete died, in home hospitals, of men re¬ ceived from South Ame ?59- 2 21 23 of dropsy. ,, phthisis. died on the station, total deaths. giving the ratio of 10'3 mortality per 1,000 of mean strength. c 3 In addition to the num¬ ber of men invalided on the station, there was in¬ valided in home hospitals, of men received from ships paying off, &c. from South America 1 53 54 for inflammation of lungs invalided on the station, total invaliding. ! giving the ra¬ tio of 24 2 in¬ validing per 1,000 of mean strength.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30454700_0001_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
