PART I.] Cholera mnong European Troops at Fort William. 



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The next two tables contain the deaths from cholera which occurred among the 

 European troops in Fort William from 1826 to 1857, and the admissions from 1826 

 to 1849 and 1858 to 1876. The figures are those of Dr. Bryden's statistical tables 

 regarding cholera. Deaths have been stated separately from admissions, because they 

 are less liable to suspicion in respect of errors of diagnosis,* and because the previous 

 statistics which we have been considering have referred to deaths alone. The returns 

 of admissions per month in Dr. Bryden's tables cease with the year 1849, after which 

 only deaths are given until 1858, from which date monthly admissions and total annual 

 deaths are recorded, and it is on this account that our two tables do not embrace the 

 same period of years. 



* In reference to this point, it is to be noted that some of the returns regarding Fort William are very 

 open to suspicion ; for example, we find that in 1838, 12() admissions and only 8 deaths from cholera are recorded, 

 giving a rate of mortality very unlike that which is encountered in true cholera at the present time. The 

 numbers of admissions and of deaths, with the percentages of the latter to average strength from 1826 to 1876. 

 are as follows : — 



TABLE XII. 



Annual Returns of Cholera among European Troops in Fort William. 



* 1850 to 1857 records of admissions are incomplete, and the strength not known. 

 t Fort William and Calcutta hospitals (soldiers, sailors, etc. ?). 



