4o6 



The " Oriental Sore " as observed in India. 



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:iT II. 



As far as European troops are concerned, the illustration is liable to a fallacy, 

 owing, as has been previously noted, to the excessive liability of new arrivals in the 

 country to abscess and ulcer. Taking the native troops, however, this is avoided, and 

 on doing so we arrive at similar results. During the six years from 1869, from 

 which year Nowshera was occupied by native troops, we find the results as below : 



Lucknow. Nowshera. 



... 453-3 1031-7 



128-3 94-1 



Average fever rate for six years 

 Average abscess and ulcer for six years 



The same thing is demonstrated on a large scale by the statistics of the European 

 Armies of Madras and Bengal, as is shown in the following statement relative to the 

 four years from 1871 to 1874 : 



TABLE IX. 



Admission Rates of European troops in the Armies of Bengal and Madras compared. 



The question of the influence of water in producing such diseases will be more 

 fully entered upon in connection with the special facts regarding Delhi, and our 

 own observations there ; but the general statistical results regarding the prevalence 

 of them over the country at large go so far, at all events, as to give no support to 

 theories which regard the organic impurities of water as of paramount importance. 

 There is nothing in the general distribution of the disease as illustrated by these 

 figures to justify any such views, and there are some facts, such as the persistent 

 and marked comparative exemption of the native troops in Lower Bengal, which 

 seem entirely opposed to them. 



2. — Facts regarding the occurrence of Sores among the troops at Delhi. 



The special facts relative to the occurrence of abscess and ulcer among troops 

 in Delhi remain to be considered. The following table (Table X) shows the total 

 admission rates of the Native and European troops, with the ratios contributed by 

 the main causes of admissions. The portion referring to the Europeans begins from 

 the year 1859, that for Natives only from 1864, as that is the earliest date for 

 which detailed information regarding them is attainable. 



