Report on the medical topography and statistics of the southern division of the Madras army.

  • Madras. Medical Board Office.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the southern division of the Madras army. 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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    SOUTHERN DIVISION JAIL OF SALEM. No. 2—Table exhibiting the number of Admissions and Deaths, of the Prisoners under Trial, from each Class of disease, for 10 years. CLASSES. DISEASES. Fevers. 1„ intermitt quotid Cholera. Diseases of / Do. brain., j Mania Eruptive fe-( Varicella.. Dropsy j Anasarca Specific dis- ( Dracunculus .... eases .... ( Ulcus phageden Do. skin., j Morbi Cutis Other diseases.. Total From 1829 to 1898. Aggregate strength 161. Admissions and Deaths from each Class of Disease. Totaladmissions | from each class. 1 Total Deaths from each class. Averagepercen- tage of sick to strength. Averagepercen- tage of deaths to sick. 1st Half. 2d Half. 1st Half. 2d Half. Ad. | Dd. Ad. Dd. Ad. |Dd. Ad. | Dd 2 0 0 0 ) 4 1 1 1 ) 6 1 1 1 7 2 4 •317 29 •571 22 15 4 3 | 22 15 4 3 26 18 IS •149 69 •230 2 0 3 0 ) 1 5 1 4 0 9 1 5 •590 11 111 3 1 0 ) 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 3 0 1 •863 0 •0 1 0 ° 0 1 > 0 0 0 1 0 0 ■62] 0 •0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 ■242 0 •0 1 0 0 0 l 1 0 1 1 J 2 ° 1 1 3 1 J •863 33 •333 0 0 1 0 1 ° 0 1 0 1 0 0 •62 i 0 0 2 0 2 0 I 2 0 2 0 4 0 2 •484 0 •0 42 171 14 5 421 17 14 j si 56 221 34 •782 39 •295 Remarks on the preceding tables of disease. The average annual numerical strength has been 239, and the admissions into hospital 377, or 157 per cent, on the strength. In 1833 and 1834, years of famine, this average was considerably increased; the strength in 1833 amounted to 498, and in 1834 the number of prisoners was 412; in these two years also, 1372 admissions took place, more than a 3d part of all the sick during the ten years, with 228 deaths, nearly one half of all the mortality ; the total admissions being 3773, and the total deaths 483. The principal diseases both as to number, and the mortal- ity caused by them, have been fevers of various types.