Age and length of service as affecting the sickness and mortality of the European army : and aggregate of the statistics of the army for the ten-year period, 1860-69 / by James L Bryden.

  • Bryden, James L. (James Lumsdaine), 1833-1880.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Age and length of service as affecting the sickness and mortality of the European army : and aggregate of the statistics of the army for the ten-year period, 1860-69 / by James 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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    TABULAR STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT. SECTION I. Fluctuation in the death-rate of the European Army due to Cholera ... ... ... Composition of the death-rate of the Anny in each year of the eleven years from 1860 to 1870, Cholera being excluded ... ... Deaths fi'om different causes out of each 100 deaths in each year of the eleven years, Cholera being excluded ... Death-rate of new regiments compared with the standard derived from the period from 1860 to 1870 Composition of the death-rate of new regiments during the first three years of Indian Service contrasted Deaths from different causes out of each 100 deaths in the first, second, and third years of service Ratios for diseases developed under exposure among Troops new to the climate of India—Died from different causes out of each 100 deaths in 1868 and 1859 ... ... ... ... Death-rates per 1,000 for the same diseases ... The daily sick-rate of new regiments compared with that of the Army in general. Daily sick in each month from all causes per 1,000 of strength in the Army in the field in 1858; in the Army as a body on the standard of the ten years 1860-69; and in newly-arrived regiments in the first and second years, between 1864 and 1870 Admission-rates of newly-arrived regiments contrasted with the standard for the Army in general, on the same basis as in the case of the daily sick-rate Invaliding-rates of newly-arrived regiments contrasted with the rates for the Army as a body Invaliding of 1858 and of regiments in the first and second years, 1864-70 Invaliding of new regiments in the third year compared with the invaliding of the Army as a body on the average of the years 1865-69 ... ... ... ... ... ... SECTION II. Constitution by age of newly-arrived regiments compared with the standard for the Army as a body Composition by age of the new Army of 1858 Death-rates at the different ages compared—(a) in the new Army of 1858, (J) in the Army as a body from 1865 to 1870, and (c) in newly-amved regiments from 1864 to 1869 ... Table showing the ratio in which men of different ages died from fevers, heat apoplexy, dysentery, and hepatitis between 1858 and 1862 RatiQ of liability to death at the different ages from the same diseases in the Army of the Presidency from 1865 to 1870 ... Deaths in relation to age—Army of 1863 ... ... ... Deaths in relation to age—Army of 1864 ... ... ... «. ... ... Deaths in relation to age—Army of 1865-70 _ ... Statement showing in percentages the comparative liability of the Soldier above 30 to die as compared with the men aged from 25 to 29, derived from the table for 1865-70 Invaliding at the different ages in each year from 1865 to 1870, and the average for the period Ratio of invaliding in men above 30, as compared with that for men between 25 and 29 Deaths of boys at the age of 20 between 1865 and 1870, and in regiments in the first year of service Statement showing the decrease year by year from 1863 to 1870 of the number of men between 20 and 30, who constitute the most efficient body for service in India, and the steady increase iu men above 30 Composition of the strength of the Army at different ages in each year from 1863 to 1870 ... Deaths in relation to age of regiments in the first year of Indian Service, 1864-69 Deaths in relation to age of regiments in the second year of Indian Service, 1865-70 Comparative liability to deatn at different ages contrasted in the case of the newly-arrived and the Army as a body Invaliding in relation to age of regiments in tbe first year of Indian Service Invaliding in relation to age of regiments in the second year of Indian Service ... Invaliding in relation to age of regiments in the third year of Indian Service Invaliding at different ages in the first, second, and third years of service contrasted and compared with the standard for the Army ... The strength of the Army of Bengal at the different periods of service between 1865 and 1870, and the ratio of invaliding in relation to the number of years of residence in India ... . Distribution of the invaliding between 1865 and 1870, according to the number of years of residence in India of the men invalided ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Statement showing the number of Soldiers who had served upwards of three years in India, invalided from regiments in their first three years of Indian Service ... _ ••• Deaths of the Army from the chief causes of mortality in each year from 1865 to 1870 shown in relation to age SECTION III. Acclimatised regiments contrasted with regiments in their first year of Indian Service cantoned in the same station in the same year ... ... ... ... The aggregate of the cases contained in the preceding table Ratios of sickness, mortality, and invaliding in the first and second years of Indian Service contrasted in the same regiments Table showing the gradual diminution of the ratios for heat fevers, heat apoplexy, and dysentery in the Army between 1858 and 1863 Loss by death in H. M.’s 6th and 73rd Regiments in 1858, showing the great liability to death under exposure of men above 30 recently landed in India The proportion which heat fevers, heat apoplexy, and dysentery bear to the total mortality in each year from 1858 to 1863, showing the steady decrease year by year Number of deaths from dysentery in unacclimatised regiments contrasted with the number of deaths from hepatitis in the same regiments Loss of old men in H. M.’s 1-llth Regiment in the first six months of Indian Service