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toremarkj that the 36th was kept at head-quarteis and neighbour- 

 hood ; and the 66th at the out-pofts. 



Deaths. 

 Reghiient ^^th. Regiment 66th. 



1764, 



— 30 — 102 



5> - — 53 — 32 



6, 30 — 30 



7, 22 — . 30 



8, 27 . — 41 



9, 29 — 32 



1770, 42 ' — 43 



.1771, ^ — 22_ 



Totals, 261 ■ -- — - — 233 



Aveviige, per afmu/n, 324. — — — 41 1 



According- to this table, of the 36th there died, per annum, one 

 in every fourteen ; and, of the 66tli, one in every eleven. The 

 fmalleft lofs of the 36th was about one in twenty ; and, of the 

 66th, about one in nineteen. The havoc among the 66th, on 

 the firft year of their arrival, I have accounted for, in fpeaking of 

 the quarters of Black River and fome otlier out-pofts. In that 

 year a detachment was fent on the Havannah fervice ; and the ftflte. 

 of the troops appeared, from the return then laid before the af- 

 fembly, as follows; viz. 



Detachment, ____ ^00 Men 



Eftedives remaining, — — 301 



In the hofpital, - • • 104 



Of thofe in hofpital, the governor mentioned that feveral were re- 

 covered fit for duty fince the laft returns had been made; and that 

 others were in a fair way. 



The calculations, which Dr. Price has made, are ; 

 Deaths, — i in 2o|, London ; — i in 19I, Vienna; — per annum.- 



Now, it is worthy experiment, whether, by proper diet of frefh 

 meat, a moderate allowance of the- bed rum, and care in re- 

 moving all nuifances, and fources of putrid diftempers, from the 

 feveral barracks in this ifland, the deaths might not be reduced to 



the 



