Cases of all Diseases and Injuries - Home Station - Health of the Navy - 1864

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Health of the Navy 1864

Home Station

Table, No. 1

Showing the Number of Cases of all Diseases and Injuries, and the Number Invalided and Dead, With the Ratio per 1,000 of Force.

DISEASE OR INJURY. Number of Cases. Ratio per 1,000 of Force. Number Invalided. Ratio per 1,000 of Force. Number Dead. Ratio per 1,000 of Force.
Continued and Remittent Fever 350 17 .8 - - 2 .1
Intermittent Fever 100 5.0 - - - -
Small Pox 199 10.1 - - - 0.4
Measles 23 1.1 - - 1 -
Scarlatina 215 1.2 - - 2 0.1
Disease of the Brain 1 - 2 0.1 4 0.2
Apoplexy 7 0.3 - - 1 -
Epilepsy 74 3.7 39 1.9 - -
Paralysis 20 1.0 8 0.4 1 -
Insanity 14 0.7 7 0.3 1 -
Delirium Tremens 48 2.4 - - 2 0.1
Neuralgia 39 1.9 - - - -
Vertigo 70 3.5 25 1.2 - -
Inflammation of the Lungs and Pleura 325 16.5 14 0.7 17 0.8
Phthisis and Haemoptysis 137 0.9 80 4.0 86 1.8
Influenza and Catarrh 9,239 114.0 3 0.1 - -
Cynanche 942 47.9 - - 2 0.1
Asthma 3 0.1 1 - - -
Functional and Organic Disease of the Heart 188 9.5 71 3.6 15 0.7
Mumps 6 0.3 - - - -
Haemorrhoids 55 2.7 1 - - -
Varix 31 1.5 9 0.4 - -
Aneurism 4 0.2 - - 4 0.2
Disease of the Stomach and Bowels 9 0.4 2 0.1 3 0.1
Dysentery 18 0.9 3 0.1 - -
Diarrhoea 598 30.4 1 - - -
Cholera 4 0.2 - - - -
Constipation and Colic 207 10.5 4 0.2 - -
Tabes - - - - 1 -
Disease of the Liver 31 1.5 8 0.4 3 0.1
Jaundice 43 2.1 - - - -
Splenitis 2 0.1 - - - -
Disease of the Bladder and Kidneys 24 1.2 31 1.5 6 0.3
Syphilis 1,897 96.6 20 1.0 - -
Gonorrhoea 505 25.7 - - - -
Orchitis 397 20.2 1 - - -
Stricture 63 3.2 - - - -
Ineontinence of Urine, &c. 57 2.9 - - - -
Rheumatism 1,313 66.8 70 3.5 1 -
Gout 57 2.9 1 - - -
Disease of the Bones and Joints 78 3.9 18 0.9 - -
Inflammation of the Byes 296 15.0 6 0.3 - -
Amaurosis and Cataract 15 0.7 3 0. 1 - -
Otitis and Deafness 57 2.9 14 0.7 - -
Erysipelas 104 5.2 - - 3 0.1
Scrofula 27 1.3 13 0.6 - -
Bubo (Symp.) 273 13.9 1 - -  
Phlegmon and Abscess 3,110 158.4 9 0.4 2 0.1
Ulcer 1,320 67.2 22 1.1 - -
Psora 602 30.6 - - - -
Eruptions, &C. 551 28.0 2 0.1 - -
Dyspepsia and Debility 786 40.0 59 3.0 1 -
Scurvy 2 0.1 - - - -
Dropsy 21 1.0 3 0.1 3 0.1
Toenia 27 1.3 - - - -
Headache 79 4.0 3 1.0 - -
Purpura 4 0.2 - - 1 -
Cancer 1 - 1 - - -
Gangrene - - 1 - - -
Wounds and Injuries 3,350 171.1 46 2.3 8 0.4
Burns and Scalds 139 7.0 1 - - -
Hernia 51 2.5 33 1.6 - -
Drowned         19 0.9
Fish Poisoning 1 - - - - -
Asphyxia         2 0.1
Suicide - - - - 2 0.1
Not stated - - - - 1 -
Alcoholic Poisoning - - - - 1 -
TOTAL 21,028 1071.2 636 32.3 154 7.8

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