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APPENDIX. 



Abstract shewing the Increase and Decrease in H. 31.^s 98^/i Regiment. 



The number of men, w ho have taken their discharge, &c., has been 

 purposely omitted from this table, which shows the decrease, by sick- 

 ness alone, to have been at the rate of 178 men yearly. 



iPfow, this regiment has never enjoyed the advantages of a hill sta- 

 tion. Had a certain proportion of the men, selected from amongst tlie 

 most unhealthy, with due regard to their particular cases, been located 

 for six months at Darjehng, wliile the regiment was at Dinapore in 

 1848, or immediately after the corps arrived from China, tlie result 

 would have been very different. But we totally dissent from the plan 

 on which our " sanataria" are made use of at present. Instead of send- 

 ing only the invalids of the season to Darjeling, Mussuri, or Kussowli 

 — dragging the poor creatures, many in a state of great suffering and 

 exhaustion, hundi-eds of miles for the purpose, and locating entire re- 

 giments at Dugshae and Subathu — we would earnestly advocate an 

 equal enjoyment of the hill stations by each of the European regiments 

 serving in the Presidency, by letting every corps, cavalry, artillery and 

 infantry, benefit yearly by them, t o an equal extent as regards numbers, 

 and for a similar period. Thus, if a detachment of from fifteen to 

 twenty-five per cent, from every European corps were marched to the 

 nearest hill station, so as to arrive in the early part of April, and all 

 those not requiring a winter in the hills ordered to rejoin head- quarters 

 again in November or December, there could be no dissatisfaction felt 

 on the point of interest or favouritism, and the greatest benefit woidd 

 result to tlie .greatest number. A seven months' residence in the hills 

 i,s sufficient for most parties j — many get tired and " ennuyed" in half 



