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On the Sickness and Mortality 



actual number of cases of paroxysmal fevers. By this mode of com- 

 putation, we find in 1829 that the per centage to strength was 54 



1830 .. ..35 



1831 



1832 

 1833 

 1834 

 1835 

 1836 

 1837 

 1838 

 1839 

 1840 

 1841 



39i 



9*2 



°3 



32i 

 44f 

 52-9 

 30} 

 34 

 107 



By computing the extent or prevalence of miasmatic fevers in 

 relation to the strength, we learn that they were most common in 

 1829, 1832, 1838, and 1841, in which years it will be seen that they 

 exceeded 50 per cent. There is in this mode of computation a 

 variation from the former view of looking at the abstract number, 

 without reference to actual strength. This calculation exhibits the 

 years 1833, 1834, and 1835, as remarkably healthy, and exempt 

 from the occurrence of periodical fevers of every kind. These 

 years were remarkable as dry years, or for the small quantity of 

 rain which fell ; a coincidence to be carefully borne in recollection, 

 and to which I shall have occasion to refer in a subsequent part 

 of this paper. 



The 3rd Table exhibits the comparative annual admissions and 

 deaths of the European and Native troops stationed at Kurnaul, for 

 the period alluded to, from 1st January 1829, to 1st January 1842. 



It points out the greater prevalence of disease in the European 

 than in the Native troops, and their greater fatality, by the higher 

 ratio per cent, of deaths on admissions in the former, than in the 

 latter. On a comparison of the ratio of admissions to strength in the 

 two classes, it appears there was no uniformity or correspondence in 

 the numbers of the sick in the same seasons. Both classes were not 

 equally affected in the same years. 



