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One of the consequences of all these is, in the warm season especi- 

 ally, the men feel so oppressed at night that they leave their rooms and* 

 expose themselves to all the causes and bad effects of suppressed trans- 

 piration. 



The average ratio of mortality in His Majesty's troops quartered 

 in Fort William is as follows, for four years from 1830 to 1833— 



Officers 5-88 per cent per annum. 



Men 7*59 



Women 10*73 



Children 16-29 



Fort William is one of the worst, if not the very worst, of the Mili- 

 tary Stations in India for children. 



Cawnpore. 

 In the Station of Cawnpore for the period of four years, from 1830 

 to 1833, the average proportion of deaths to strength is, 



Officers 3*10 per cent per annum, 



Men 455 



Women 4*04 



Children 9*22 



As to the locality of this cantonment, none of the Barrack build- 

 ings come close to the river, excepting the Hospital in which the sick of 

 the King's Regiment of Infantry are. treated. The soil rests on a sub- 

 stratum of Kunkur, which is favourable to the dryness of the Station. 

 The declivity of the site secures it against any accumulation of mois- 

 ture ; the drainage is also facilitated by several small ravines or gullies, 

 which intersect the cantonment, each of which during the rainy 

 season becomes a streamlet ; thus the water does not lodge, but runs 

 quickly off into the river (above which all the Barracks are sufficiently 

 elevated) or it is speedily absorbed, so that the wet season at Cawnpore 

 is generally found pleasanter than in many other Stations in Upper or 

 Central India. 



The site of the Barracks of His Majesty's Infantry Regiment is 

 pretty high, that of the King's Cavalry Regiment not so high ; but 

 that of all however is sufficiently elevated to allow of the water pass- 

 ing off. 



The ground in the rear of the King's Infantry Regiment's Barracks 

 is broken in many places, by the violence of the periodical rains, 

 into deep fissures and ravines, containing numerous cavities, which, 

 however individually small, may form in the aggregate a consider- 



