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of the more healtliy stations. The men composing the regiment, are 

 crowded into small barracks and narrow verandahs, while t^e officers 

 of the same regiment, and the detachment of artillery, who are quarter- 

 ed in more roomy barracks at no great distance, are comparatively 

 healthy and free from disease. 



Dr. Burke, the late Inspector- Greneral, speaking of this station, says, 

 "The excess of casualties in H. M. regiment at Secunderabad over 

 that of any corps in the other stations of the presidency, during four 

 years, is 117 men ; a loss, therefore, intrinsically of that station, ex- 

 clusive of ofiicers, women and children. It has been stated that every 

 European soldier, landed in India, costs the state £100 sterling ; cal- 

 culating from which, the intrinsic loss of 117 European soldiers by 

 Secunderabad in 4i years is £11,700 sterling. But, as these 117 men 

 have to be replaced, the doing so will cost another £11,700 ; — to 

 which must be added the loss in acclimatizing these latter, amounting 

 on the lowest calculation to one-eighth, or £1,462 ; giving a sura 

 total of £24,862, as the actual loss sustained in 4i years, or proba- 

 bly three lakhs of rupees in five years. But as Secunderabad would 

 appear to have been a station for European troops for at least thirty 

 years, the cost to the state for that period may be estimated at twelve 

 lakhs at least." 



Though much may be done by the means of draining, it cannot be 

 denied, that some of our military stations, such as Berhampore,* 

 Barrackpore, and Masulipatam, are decidedly unhealthy localities. The 

 former, after a trial of seventy-seven years, and an expenditure of the 

 enormous sum of sixteen millions eight hundred thousand pounds ster- 

 ling (including capital and interest), was abandoned as a station for 

 European troops by order of Lord William Bentinck, in 1835. The 

 deaths, on an average taken for thirteen years, amounted to 103 in 

 1,000 men : so that, if to the cost of the buildings, which were unex- 

 ceptionable, we add the intrinsic loss resulting from the destruction of 

 life, we should arrive at a result of the most startling and fearful na- 

 ture. Dr. E. Jackson was the first individual who pointed out to 

 Government, the advantage of locating European troops in the interior 

 and mountainous parts of the tropical islands : and he observes that, 

 ** since the adoption of the measure proposed by him of forming can- 



* It is to be hoped that the above results as to the unhealthiness of 

 Berhampore, and the enormous loss of life and treasure experienced at 

 that place, may not be forgotten, when, if ever, it should again be 

 proposed as a military station. — Ed. 



