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 1836. r \ Number Ratio Sent Ratio Invalided Ratio Died Ratio CLASS AND ORDER OF DISEASES. of per 1,000 to per 1,000 on the per 1,000 on the per 1,000 Cases. of mean Strength. Hospital. of mean Strength. Station. of mean Strength. Station. of mean Strength. Febrile Diseases: 1. Fevers, continued, remittent and in- termittent ----- 270 125*5 2 •9 2 •9 1 •4 2. Inflammation, with fever, including acute inflammation of the lungs, of the liver, of the bowels, and the brain 778 361‘7 3 1-4 10 4-6 6 2-8 3. Eruptive fevers, including erysipe- las, small-pox and scarlet fever - 4. Hemorrhages, with fever, including 11 5-1 -- —' ] 1 11 1 consumption of the lungs and ex¬ pectoration of blood - 20 9-3 . . . 4 1-8 o •9 5. Fluxes, with fever, including dysen- tery and acute catarrh 332 154-3 - - 10 4-6 3 1-4 Nervous Diseases: 1. Soporose diseases, including apo- plexy, palsy, and some varieties of head-ache - - - 34 15*8 1 •4 2 •9 1 *4 2. Defect of vital power, including dys- pepsia and chronic general debility 3. Spasmodic diseases, including diar- 69 32-1 “ “ “ 4 1-8 rhoea, cholera, colic and epilepsy - 309 143-6 - - 11 5*1 — — 4. Mental diseases; derangement of mind, from whatever cause, in¬ cluding: the delirium of drunkards C 2-8 1 •4 — — — — Cachectic Diseases : 1. Emaciation of the body, including intestinal worms, and certain ob¬ scure consumptive diseases of the alimentary sj^stem ... 2 •9 2. Swellings ; dropsies - 3 1-4 - - - “ - 1 •4 3. Cutaneous diseases, including sy- philis, scrofula and jaundice 91 42-3 9 4’1 11 5-1 1 *4 Local Diseases : 1. Diseases of the senses, including non-inflammatory affections of the eye and ear - 4 1-8 1 *4 _ — — — 2. Depraved appetites ... — — — — — — — 3. Ditto - - motions - - _ - 4. Increased discharges, including — gonorrhoea - - - - - 5. Obstructions, including constipa- 39 18-1 tion of the bowels and dysury 6. Tumours, including aneurism, vari- 57 26-5 1 •4 3 1-4 •4 cose veins and bubo - - - 7. Protrusions, including dislocation 157 72-9 1 •4 1 and rupture - 8. Solutions or destruction of parts, including wounds, ulcers, and the majority of accidental injuries 12 5-6 4 1-8 *4 632 293*8 r» O 1-4 7 3*2 1 Mean strength employed - 2,151 2,826 1313-7 22 10-2 69 32-1 16 7-4 Deduct for wounds, accidents andl slight hurts - - - - - / Remain on the list, &c. from disease - 479 - 4 - 3 - 1 — 2,347 1091-1 18 8-4 66 30-7 15 7- 1313‘7 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 9 months. f2 of phthisis. 1 16 died on the station. N> In addition to the there died, in home hospitals, of men received from South \ .— America [ 18 t total deaths. giving the ratio of 8'3 mortality per 1,000 of mean strength. *59- No invaliding in home hospitals of men received from South America in 1836. u 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30454700_0001_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
