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ratio of 280 per thousand,- and so forth. The following 

 tables, extracted from the official Report on Sanitary 

 Measures in India in 1892-93, exhibits the difference 

 between European and native troops in relation to the 

 sum-total of the diseases prevalent in India. In con- 

 trastinfc the two races it should, however, be borne in 

 mind, that while the whites on the one hand, since they 

 are mostly unmarried, suffer more from the venereal 

 diseases than the natives, whereby their sick and death- 

 rates are unduly raised, the natives, on the other hand, 

 are more exposed to infection by the other diseases. It 

 should be noted also, that many of the whites who were 

 invalided home would have died had they remained in 



ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS OF EUROPEAN TROOPS 



IN INDIA. 



ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS OF NATIVE TROOPS 



IN INDIA. 



1 Hirsch, vol. iii. p. 296. 



