400 The " Oriental Sore'' as observed in India. [part li. 



While the previous table showed a diminution in the annual numbers of afifected 

 stations, this shows a corresponding diminution in number of affected regiments; but 

 it also shows a marked diminution in the average annual admission rate for these. The 

 average admission rate for the 26 regiments appearing in the column for 1865 is 118 

 per 1,000; that for the 18 regiments in 1874 is only 95 per 1,000. 



In order, as far as possible, to complete our information, three more points remain  

 to be considered, and these are — the general health of the regiments in the years they 

 show high ulcer rates as evinced by their total admission rates, their history as regards 

 admission rates from abscess and ulcer, and the nature of the locality from which they ' 

 had come to any station in which abscess and ulcer prevailed among them. 



The statistics show that although, as a general rule, high admission rates from the • 

 special cause concur with high general admission rates, still, as in regard to stations; 

 and years so in regard to regiments, there is no necessary coincidence ; it is not invariably 

 those years in which the regiments show highest general admission rates that they show 

 high ulcer rates, nor those with lowest admission rates in which they show relative 

 exemption.* All the facts go to prove the existence of some special causation beyond 

 mere general condition as regards health. 



In Table V. the stations are arranged according to the frequency with which they 

 occur as antecedent localities — -as localities in which regiments had been immediately 

 previous to coming to the stations in which they suffered specially from prevalence of 

 abscess and ulcer, and which may, therefore, be supposed to have exerted some pre- 

 disposing or causative influence on such prevalence. Of all these localities England 

 stands out conspicuously, occurring more than three times as frequently as any of even 

 .the highest of the others do. Owing to the vagueness of the nomenclature more cannot 

 be said regarding this than that it certainly demonstrates the influence of previous 

 localities on the production of the diseases included under the general term, and that 

 it probably, partially at all events, explains the extreme prevalence of such forms of 

 disease in stations such as Lucknow, in which regiments new to the country are frequently 

 located. The prevalence of such forms of disease among new arrivals may also probably 

 explain many of the cases in which low total and high special admission rates coincide. 



Comparing the last two tables with one another, the influence of previous localities 

 is also illustrated by cases such as those of the 38th in Subathoo in 1865-66, and 

 of the 85th and 37th in Dugshaie in 1871 and 1873. In regard to the 38th in 1865, 

 it is specially noted that many of the admissions were due to Delhi sore, the regiment 

 having been in Delhi during the previous year, and having suffered there severely 

 from the disease. With regard to the 85th and 37th the influence of Mean Meer 

 is hardly less distinct. The necessity for taking the history of individual regiments 

 into account is also very clearly brought out by the case of the 109th. It is only 



* A Table illustrative of this point will be found printed in the Edition of this Report which appeared 

 in the Twelfth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, page I'AS, 1876 



