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posure to the sun, and a suitable covering for the head, and 

 bedding at night, it would give this station an exemption 

 and immunity from disease possessed by few places within 

 the tropics. 



We have had twelve deaths during the year, but two shot 

 themselves in Barracks, and one was killed by his horse throw- 

 ing him against a bandy. This at once illustrates, what has 

 so often been urged. Here out of 723 men at Head Quar- 

 ters, only nine have died from disease in Hospital. Some of 

 these would have died in any part of the world, others have 

 fallen a sacrifice, to remaining out of Hospital till disease 

 had induced organic change: and we are thus led to the 

 conclusion, and to the confirmation of the statistical reports* 

 in other parts of the world, that an elevation of 3000 feet 

 even within the tropics, renders that place as salubrious as 

 Great Britain itself. 



Table of Humidity, from 1st April 1844 to Z\st March 1845. 



Months. 



April, 1844 



May, 



June, 



July 



August, 



September, .. .. .. 



October, 



November, 



December, 



January, 1845 



February, 



March, 



Total, 



Quai 



itity. 



=~ 2 . 



O CO -a gj 



| c s a 



5 



12 



14 



16 



20 



13 



12 







13 



4 







3 



112 



° ™-fi 



a % a <* 



3.2 "g 0) 



4 



5 

 7 

 5 

 2 

 6 

 

 3 







1 



~ 35 



a a 

 a "3 



— ' o . 



9~~ 

 13 

 19 

 23 

 25 

 15 

 18 





 16 



5 







4 



147 



DO 



0> 



s 

 o 



a 



1 



5 



3 

 4 



5 

 2 

 

 4 



1 

 



32 



a 

 <u 

 O 



30 

 32 

 95 

 65 





 90 

 30 





 80 

 30 





 75 



27 



If the annual fall of rain be compared for a series of years, 

 it will be found subject to great fluctuation, as may be seen 

 from the accompanying Table. 



* By Major Tulloch. 



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