184 TRINIDAD. 



In New York the mortality among the negroes is 1 per 19, 

 and 1 per 35 for the whole population ; in Philadelphia it is 1 

 per 19 for the former, and 1 per 31 for the latter. 



We find also, in Captain Tulloch's report, that the mortality 

 among the white troops has been, in the West Indies, 1 per 15. 

 It has been among the black troops in the same colonies as 1 per 

 25 ; in Sierra Leone as 1 per 35*71 ; in Gibraltar as 1 per 15 

 exactly that of the white troops of the West Indies. After stating 

 that in the Barbadoes command the mortality among the troops 

 was, during twenty years, 93 per 1,000, or one per 10'72, Captain 

 Tulloch says of Trinidad, " During the same period, the mortality 

 has averaged about 106 per 1,000 of the white, and 40 per 1,000 

 of the black troops annually. The high ratio of the former arises 

 principally, however, from the deaths during the first three years, 

 when the report states there were a great number of debilitated 

 and worn-out soldiers in the garrison. The subsequent mortality 

 is under the average of the whole command being only about 60 per 

 1,000 or 1 per 16-66." In Dr. Gavin's " Report on the Sanatory 

 Measures necessary to be taken in the colony of Trinidad, June, 

 1852," it stated that the mortality among children under five and 

 ten years is the true cause of the excessive mortality of Port of 

 Spain, it being 1 in every 17 '10. "However, when further 

 inquiry is made," says the learned inspector, "it is found that 

 the mortality in Port of Spain, among adults, is not very dissimilar 

 to the mortality of London" 



If we take the towns of Port of Spain and San Fernando as 

 distinct from the rural districts, we arrive at the following results. 

 The grand total of deaths in the rural districts being 9,431, the 

 yearly average for six years is 1,572. The population being for the 

 same period 49,555 inhabitants, the rate of mortality would then be 

 1 per 31 '52. The grand total of deaths in Port of Spain and San 

 Fernando being 4,467 also for six years the yearly average is 

 744-50. Taking the aggregate population of both towns at 

 20,445 inhabitants, the rate of mortality would then be 1 per 

 27-46. 



As regards the sex, the number of deaths being 8,074 males, 

 and 5,834 females, the ratio is 100 to 0-72, or again as 100 males 

 to 72 females. If we take the males and females separately, we 

 have 36,631 males and 7,974 deaths, or an average of 1,329, or 



