LAW OF MORTALITY, FOR BRITISH INDIA. 



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and ninety-seven persons, or about 3.12 percent; the mean ages of the 

 deceased were as follows : — 



81 Colonels, deceased, mean age, 61 



97 Lieut.-Cols. ditto, ditto, 51 



78 Majors, ditto, ditto, 40 



277 Captains, ditto, ditto, 36 



651 Subalterns, the mean age not ascertained, but it ranged 

 from 18 to 33. 



It may be as well here to exhibit in a simple comparative Table the 

 difference of the rate of mortality at the three Presidencies, Bengal being 

 clearly less inimical to the health of the European than either Madras 

 or Bombay. 



Comparative annual percentage of Mortality of the Officers of the three 

 Armies of Sengal, Madras and jBomhay.^ 



Presidency. 



Colonels. 



Lieut. -Colonels. 



Majors. 



Captains. 



Lieutenants. 



Cornets and 

 Ensigns. 



Surgeons. 



Assist. Surgeons. 



Total or General 

 Percentage. 



General 

 Average. 



Bengal, .... 



5.94 



4.84 



4.10 



3.45 



2.1b 



2.34 







3.12 





Madras, .... 



5.40 



6.11 



5.42 



5.02 



4.17 



3.80 



4.68 



4.31 



4.49 



^3.85 



Bombay, . . 



5.74 



5.45 



3.77 



3.78 



3.96 



3.15 



4.08 



4.21 



3.94 





The rate of mortality in the Bengal Pilot Service^ has been accu- 

 rately registered for the past thirty years. Its numbers are not sufficient for 

 any general Table, as the annual effective strength of the Department 

 has averaged only about one hundred and forty individuals. Out of these 



* Vide Tables Nos. 1 1, 12 and 13. 



3 c 



t Vide Table No 14. 



