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Concluding Summary (Comparative) Table of the Quarterly Returns of Sickness and Mortality among H. M. 

 Troops in the three Presidencies of India, from \st January to, Z\st March, 1840. 



Presidencies. 



Average 

 Strength. 



No. of 

 Admissions. 



No. of Deaths. 



Ratio per 

 cent, of Ad- 

 missions to 

 Strength for 

 the Quarter. 



Ratio per 



cent, of 



Deaths to 



Strength for 



the Quarter. 



Ratio of 

 Deaths to 

 Admissions. 



Remarks. 



Bengal. .. 

 Madras. .. 

 Bombay. . . 



7985 

 7193 

 4171 



2858 

 3436 

 1697 



104 



70 



59 



35-79 

 4776 

 4068 



1*30 



0-97 

 1 41 



3-63 

 203 



3 47 



I . It appears by this Table, that although 

 the proportion of " Admissions to 

 Strength" among H. M. Troops in 

 India was highest during this Quarter 

 in the Madras Presidency, the propor- 

 tions of « Deaths to Strength" and of 

 " Deaths to Admissions" were less by 

 far in it, than in either that of Bengal 

 or Bombay, 



Summary. 



19349 



7991 



233 



41-29 



1 20 



291 



2. The greatest proportion of " Deaths 

 to Strength" is found among H. M. 

 Troops in the Bombay Command ; and 

 the greatest of " Deaths to Admissions" 

 among those in the Bengal Command. 



3. A sifting investigation into the causes 

 of these differences, could not fail to 

 be highly interesting and instructive 

 to Medical and Military Officers, as 

 well as Government. 



This would give average Ratios per Annum, j 16516 



: 



480 





This Table does not include 

 to shew the 



1 Deaths out of Hospital" nor ' 



Men Invalided" which will be stated at the end of the last Quarter of each year, 

 entire Annual decrement of Strength" in each Corps, as well as in each Presidency. 



Note. — I wished to add two Tables to the foregoing, to ascertain the ratios of Admissions and Deaths according to " age" and " length of resi- 

 dence ;" but the information for this purpose is at present too defective in the Regimental Returns ; it is, however, extremely important, as tending to 

 indicate in the most correct manner, the age and period of residence ( acclimatement J at which Europeans are best adapted for Military Service in 

 India ; and I hope to be enabled to give it hereafter in the comparative Annual Statistical Tables of the three Presidencies. 



JOHN MURRAY, M. D. 



Inspector General H. SI. Hospitals. 



