Report on the prevalence of enteric fever in the Royal Barracks, Dublin.

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Date:
1888
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Credit: Report on the prevalence of enteric fever in the Royal Barracks, Dublin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If the mortality from enteric fever be treated in a similar manner, we find mortality per 1,000 of strength from enteric fever in the following :— 1881. 1882. 1S83. 1884. 1885. Average. United Kingdom •18 •47 •24 •19 •48 •31 •32 •27 •36 •22 •38 •31 Belfast District •35* •07 •57 •ib 0 •37 •24 •25 Curragh District Notknown Notknown 0 •29 •10 Dublin District •24 •45 •89 A •69 •47 Dublin Garrison Notknown •85 •41 1-06 •79 Home and Woolwich.. •6i •26 •09 •61 •40 * Only one death. Mortality from enteric fever among troops in Dublin Garrison. From this it appears that the death-rate per 1,000 strength from enteric fever of the troops in Dublin Garrison' is much higher than that of the average rates for the troops in the United Kingdom, or Ireland, or in the Dublin district, the average rates being respectively 079, 0'3 1, 0*31 and 0'47. Thus the death- rate among the troops in Dublin Garrison from enteric fever was considerably more than double that from the same cause among the troops generally, and this notwithstanding the facts shown in the following statement:— Deaths per 1,000 Strength from all Causes. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. Average. United Kingdom 7-45 6-94 6-28 5-33 6-68 6*55 6-46 6-65 5-53 5-09 6-26 6-02 Belfast District 8-40 7-33 7-36 5-39 7-77 7-25 Cork District 5-79 5-19 4-69 4-16 5-52 5-07 Curragh District Notknown Notknown 3-62 2-06 6-15 3-94 Dublin District 6-43 7*55 6-48 7-20 6-46 6-82 Dublin Garrison 6-97 6-36 655 6-«3 Home and Woolwich.. 7-5 6-i 6-7 6-1 6-9 6-7 General The general death-rate of the troops in the Dublin Garrison is but slightly death-rate over the average of the troops in the United Kingdom, and is lower than the the'SuSr W army ra,^e *n Ireland, and even in the Dublin district itself, and below the death- Garrison. ra^e °f the troops in the Home and Woolwich district, where the death-rate ot the general population is below that of Dublin in the ratio of 207 to 28'1 per 1,000 per annum. Again, we find the admissions per strength from the principal febrile zymotics are more numerous in the Dublin district, namely, 37 8 per 1,000, than the average of the United Kingdom, of Ireland, or of any of the Irish districts, although the rate is not so high as London. In the Dublin Garrison itself for the three years 1883-85 it was 42'5, as shown in the following table :— Admissions, Febrile Zymotics per 1,000 of Strength. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. Average. United Kingdom 44-6 38-4 33-8 31-0 30-6 34-5 43-8 38-6 33-0 24-3 24-5 33-1 Belfast District 48-5 28-0 29-8 22-3 23-0 30-4 61-8 28-9 26-1 20-1 20-4 31-8 Curragh District Notknown Notknown 27-6 15*3 15-8 19 2 Dublin District 30-1 47-9 48'6 33-0 32-5 37-8 Dublin Garrison 51-1 42-1 35-8 42-5 Home and Woolwich District 50.1 31-3 34-5 42-2 42-1 40-0 Febrile The rate of mortality per admissions of febrile zymotics is higher in zymotics Dublin than elsewhere, not excepting the Home and Woolwich district, as shown in the following table, thus showing that the forms of disease met with are either more severe or are treated under less favourable circumstances. * The Dublin Garrison returns for the three years 1883-5