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after deducting deaths caused by the epidemics of cholera and 

 small-pox) the mortality far exceeds the average of that of 

 troops serving in their own country, and is much greater than 

 even that of Europeans at Moulmein. It must however be 

 remembered, that many men are always detached on duty, fre- 

 quently at unhealthy out-posts, and also that a good many men 

 are from Munipore, and are not strictly Rakains or Mughs. 



A great many natives of Chittagong are employed in Arra- 



can as servants and coolies, and from the 



general resemblance of the climates of the 



two provinces, it might have been conjectured, that they would 



not suffer in the same degree as the up-countrymen. Yet they 



appear to suffer much in the same way as the sepoys do. 



As no body of European troops has been of late years 



stationed in Arracan, we have no means of 

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judging fairly of its effect on Europeans when 



well housed, but some years ago when a detachment of Euro- 

 pean Artillery was at Khyouk Phyoo, no casualty occurred 

 during a stay of seven months among them or the rest of 

 the European population, which amounted in all to about 150. 

 The effect of the climate of Arracan on the sepoys, when 

 injurious, is analogous to that produced on 

 them by the climate of Bengal ; and accord- 

 ing to the length of stay of the regiment, the amount of the 

 sickness seems in either case to increase, in both cases, fever 

 and its sequelae breaking down the constitution. There is no- 

 thing peculiar in the fever of Arracan, that is, nothing that is 

 not constantly met with in similar localities, and it would be 

 waste of time to describe here afresh its symptoms or its 

 progress. 



But before examining the appended Tables, and making 

 a few deductions from them, it may be interesting to contrast 

 the history of two regiments stationed at the same place, 

 treated in the same hospital by the same medical officer, 

 yet suffering in very different degrees, and doing so from very 

 obvious causes. 



