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prised by a hundred of the enemy. One proposed to 

 the other to run for it. "No," was the cool reply, "There's 

 no danger, for they say only one ball in 200 ever hits and 

 there are only one hundred of those fellows." 



Duncan's figures give 82,901 British soldiers sent to the 

 Crimea, but the average strength was only 34,559, or only 

 about 40 per cent., of effectives. The killed (2,755) an ^ 

 the deaths from wounds (2,019) gave a battle death rate 

 of 69 per 1,000 per annum, while the disease death rate 

 rose to 230 per 1,000 per annum. 



In all, 300 men out of each 1,000 perished each 

 year! 



But the French statistics are still worse. While 315,000 

 were sent out, the average strength was less than 104,000 

 effectives, or only 33 per cent. The killed numbered 

 7,607 and the deaths from wounds 8,813. The battle 

 death rate was 70, the disease death rate 341, per 1,000 

 per annum. Over 6,000 died from typhus alone. 



Could there be a nobler example of the altruism of our 

 profession an altruism often tested and never in vain 

 than that shown by Drs. Richard P. Strong, Thomas W. 

 Jackson, and many other doctors and trained nurses, and 

 now finally by the chief of our corps the friend of hu- 

 manity Major General William C. Gorgas in hastening, 

 regardless of danger, to the relief of Serbia, sorely smitten 

 by the deadly typhus fever ? 



Chenu's report gives a summary of the English as well 

 as the French losses. Comparing it with Simpson's civil 

 statistics eleven years later the mortality of the four se- 

 lected amputations (arm, forearm, thigh and leg) was as 

 follows : Of 2,089 f these four amputations in civil hos- 

 pitals the mortality in Simpson's table was 41 per cent. 

 In the Crimean War among the British there were 460 

 such amputations and 183 deaths, or 40 per cent. In the 

 French army there were 5,972 such amputations with 

 4,023 deaths, a mortality of 67.4 per cent. In both armies 



