780 



INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON THE 



Great Britain by the Reports of Major Tulloch, 

 and those of the Registrar General, aided by 

 the judicious researches of Mr. Farr and other 

 statisticians. 



The diseases of man are no less modified by 

 climate and season, than the various mechanical, 

 chemical, and physiological operations of our 

 planet, being as different in the tropical portions 

 of Africa, India, South America, and the West 

 Indies, from what they are in the temperate and 

 higher latitudes, as are the botanical and zoolo- 

 gical characters of those regions. 



The following tables, constructed from the Re- 

 ports of Tulloch, laid before both Houses of Par- 

 liament, exhibit the average annual ratio of mor- 

 tality per 1000 mean strength of the British troops 

 serving in different parts of the world, from 1817 

 to 1836, omitting epidemic cholera. 



TABLE I. 



