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Sect. XIV.] MEDICINE AND MEDICAL STATISTS 



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ship's company should be noticed, together with a list of 

 the men dead, specifying their names and the causes of 

 death, whether from "ccident, disease, or suicide : whether 

 occnrri'^': on board, oi^ detached sc-vioe^ou shore, on leave, 



or in hospital. The name of each person dead is essen 

 tially necessary, to prevent one deatli being twice noticed, 

 an error which, were it reported both from a hospital and 

 the ship to which the man belonged, it would be difficult 



to avo'uL By following out these plans the exact mortalit 



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At present this cannot be 

 accomplished without a long and patient examitration of 

 various data, involving an unnecessary waste of time and 



much labour, which in the end is unsatisfact'Ary, inas 

 much as it is impossible to arrive at anything like the 

 correctness which ought to stamp the character 



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Moreovi-r, at present there is not any means of formin 

 even the most distant conception of the relative loss of 

 service per man from sickness in any given force, m the 



course of a year; nor of the number oj "-iays sicuness 

 attributable per man to each disea^ ?-parately ; or, in 

 either case, of the mean loss of service in comparison with 

 the number of attacks. These are points of consider- 

 able importance in a statistical point of view, and mness 

 tiiey can be ascertained, it will be ira| -siblp to form any 

 correct estimate of the health of the navy in comparisoi 

 with other bodit>s of men. 



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The additional information required to carry out tli'^se 

 calculations being in the hands of the medical officers oi 

 the navy, it is to be hoped the time is not far distant 



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