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The " Oriental Sore " as obset^ed in India. 



[part II. 



TABLE VII. 



Admission Rates from Abscess and Ulcer in Delhi and Mooltan compared with those 



in their respective Provinces. 



Confining our attention at present to the figures relative to the latter station, we 

 find that whilst the average admission rate from abscess and ulcer for native troops 

 there is very high, approaching that of the frontier stations, and considerably in 

 excess of the average for the Punjab, the average admission rate for European troops 

 is low, less, as it stands, than that for the Punjab, and very greatly less than that 

 when the rates are corrected by excluding the excess due to one regiment, the 

 109th. There must be something -connected with the conditions of the two sets of 

 troops quite apart from the general conditions of the station as to climate, &c., to 

 account for this striking difference. 



It is a matter of interest in connection with this subject to compare the 

 admission rates of the regiments on the North-East and North-West Frontiers with 

 those of the troops immediately adjoining them in locality. In both cases the 

 Frontier rates are excessive as compared with the others. Taking the averages for 

 the last five years, we find them to stand thus : 



North-Bast Frontier. Bengal. North- West Frontier. Punjab. 



97-4 69-0 146-8 98-5 



These figures are very curious. Of course it cannot be maintained that the exact 

 forms of disease are identical for the four areas, as the nomenclature is too vague 

 to allow of any determination of the extent to which this is the case ; but the 



* These high figures are entirely due to the 109th Regiment. The Artillery for the same yeai-s gave 69, 82, 

 and 65 per 1,000, which wruld reduce the average to 66-9. 



The facts vs^ith regard to the 109th appear parallel with those of the 38th in Subathoo. 



The figures for Europeans in Delhi and Mooitan are below those of their respective districts. For natives 

 the reverse is the case. It cannot then be any general condition that is the cause ; it must be one to which the 

 natives are more exposed. 



