| Description | Page 1: List of general hospitals.
Page 2: 'At the commencement of this month, the army was in motion, having opened in the operations, and having the success which the Commander of the Forces had gained by the capture of Salamanca'.
Page 3: 'It appears from the monthly returns that from 85 Batallions, as well as the Royal Artillery and garrisons, the total strength [is] 52,463. The admissions into the hospitals were as follow[s]. 4822 into the regimental hospitals, being 391 less than last month; 1135 into the general hospitals (independently of transfers), 532 less than last month; 5957, total admissions, or actual occurrence of disease in the month'.
List of different types of diseases admitted into regimental hospitals:
980 cases of continued fever; since last month a decrease of 225
1154 cases of intermittent fever; a decrease of 8
72 cases of remittent fever; a decrease of 32
3 cases of typhus; a decrease of 28
123 cases of pneumonia; an increase of 11
13 cases of hepatitis; a decrease of 11
155 cases of rheumatism; a decrease of 16
83 cases of ophthalmia; a decrease of 31
82 cases of catarrhus; an increase of 26
120 cases of dysenteria; an increase of 25
321cases of diarrhoea; an increase of 160
35 cases of phthisis pulmonalis; an increase of 8
257 cases of syphilis; a decrease of 98
207 cases of vulnera; an increase of 73
463 cases of ulcera; same
39 cases of morbi chronci; a decrease of 6
666 cases of varii; a decrease of 176
49 cases of ?; a decrease of 60
List of total cases remaining in general and regimental hospitals:
865 cases of intermittent fever
697 - continued fever
293 - vulnera
354 - ulcera
465 - syphilis
160 - dysenteria
160 - rheumatisms
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125 cases of diarrhoea
71 - ophthalmia
97 - febr. remitt.
86 - pneumonia
66 - phthisis pulmonalis
77 - typhus
27 - hepatitis
36 - catarrhus
14 - punit
147 - morbi chronici
644 - varri
There were 82 deaths [but actually 127 listed below] from the following diseases:
31 phthisis pulmonalis
19 febr. contin.
17 dysneteria
9 typhus
9 vulnera
9 gangrene
6 pneumonia
5 apoplexia
4 sphacelus
3 febr. remitt.
3 febr. intermitt.
2 ulcera
2 ascites
1 ophthalmia
1 hydrops
1 enteritis
1 synanche
1 sciatica
1 venen. [venenation or poisoning?]
1 effusion
1 fracture
Page 5: List of figures relating to sick and wounded:
'It appears that the total sick of the army amounts to 4294
of which number are convalescent 1521
making the actual number of sick and wounded 2773
of an army of 52,463 or nearly 1 in 19
number of hospital servants 445
in the depots of the hospitals and ? 1316
on the march to join from the G[eneral] hospitals 522
invalided 186
proportion of death to disease treated 1 in 78 1/3'. |