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RESULTS OF AN ENQUIRY RESPECTING THE 



it shows the deaths to have been six hundred and forty-seven in that period, 

 at the rate of 3.16 per cent, per annum, or one lapse in thirty-one and a 

 half lives. 



A third also referred to is a statement of the Bengal Army, shewing, 

 as the above, the numbers, ages, and deaths at our own Presidency, (com- 

 piled several years ago by Mr. G.J. Gordon) from the year 1760. It gives 

 four thousand one hundred and thirty-eight lives, from which number two 

 thousand one hundred and thirty-five deaths are exhibited. These deaths 

 we find by reference to the Table occurred at the rate of about 3.33 per cent, 

 per annum. 



It is unnecessary to republish the three Tables just spoken of, as it is 

 believed, they have all elsewhere appeared — but from the information 

 afforded by them — a general Table* was prepared by the Secretary of the 

 Committee — Avhich is appended for the sake of comparison, with the Coji- 

 mittee's final Table now to be brought to the notice of the Society. 



Several of the Committee, it seems, had been led to believe that 

 if accurate Tables of the Indian Army could be obtained for the last twenty 

 years onli/, a more favorable picture of the law of mortality for Europeans 

 in British India would be obtained, than that exhibited by Mr. Curnin ;. 

 that his data from their very copiousness — the number of names exhibited, 

 and the extent of time gone back into — must have included every variety 

 of Military Servants from the earliest employment of regular Troops by the 

 Company, and the result in consequence might be less favorable than what 

 is at present experienced. Mr. Curnin's researches — by exhibiting the 

 casualties of the last century — embraced a period of wars, exposure, and 

 ignorance of proper means of protection from the climate, from which 

 the more recent servants of the Company have been generally exempted. 



* Vide Table No. 18, 



