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RESULTS OF AN ENQUIRY RESPECTING THE 



increase of danger with increasing years, the same as in all the other Tables 

 in possession of the Committee of officers and others ; viz. 



From 18 to 20 years, 0.58 per cent. 



20 to 22 „ 2.24) 



y 3.44 



22 to 24 „ 4.63) 



25 to 30 „ 5.86 



30 to 35 „ 5.22 



35 to 45 „ 6.78 



It should be remarked that from 18 to 20, during these four years, the 

 class above represented, consists of recruits enlisted in India, the sons of 

 soldiers of the regiments. 



The whole of Dr. Burke's Report is very valuable. It enters into the 

 causes of the sickness, the difference of seasons, situations of barracks, &c., 

 and other points which cannot fail to be useful. It was forwarded to the 

 Government, and it is to be regretted it could not be appended to this 

 abstract. 



The Committee also received from the Secretary to the Medical Board, 

 Quinquennial Table of the Sickness and Mortality of the whole of the Euro- 

 pean Troops of the Bengal Army, including not only His Majesty's Troops 

 reported on by the Inspector General — but also the men of the Artillery 

 and Honorable Company's European Regiment.* The Tables confirm 

 Dr. Burke's Report. 



In ordinary circumstances it would seem that about one dies per annum 

 in every 18J throughout Bengal, but in Bengal Proper the yearly percentage 

 is nearly 7 — or one in about 14, while in the Upper Provinces it is consi- 

 derably less. At one post, — Agra, the percentage has not been 2, or one in 

 50 per annum, out of a garrison of one thousand men, a more favorable 

 result than shewn in any Table hitherto prepared in India. 



* Vide Table No. 5. 



