'ART II.] 



Adfrnssions for Abscess and Ulcer. 



401 



during the years in whicli this regiment was in Mooltan that the station appears 

 as giving a high admission rate from abscess and ulcer, and it is only in connection 

 with it that it appears as an antecedent station. 



In considering the characters of stations as illustrated by the figures regarding 

 natives, we are free from the fallacies dependent on any such great change in climate 

 and conditions of life as that to which Europeans are subject in coming newly to 

 the country. The change, however, to which natives of localities far up country are 

 exposed in coming to stations in the lower provinces is very considerable, and one 



TABLE V. 



Tahle showing the immediately ^previous Stations of the Regiments tuhich furnished 

 70 'per 1,000 and wpwards of Admissions from Abscess and Ulcer. 



might naturally look for a result similar in kind, though perhaps not in degree, to 

 that occurring in newly-arrived Europeans. Tn fact, however, no evidence of any 

 such effect can be traced. On the contrary, the stations in Lower Bengal and 

 Assam give an admission rate very considerably lower than that for any other area 

 (Table II).. 



During the first three years of the period the admission rate was considerably 

 higher than it has been since, due to the very high admission rates of the regiments 

 connected with the Bhutan war. When the Eastern Frontier stations are excluded 

 from consideration, the admission rate is very much diminished, the average for the 



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