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RESULTS OF AN ENQUIRY, RESPECTING THE 



climate. Thus Tables, Nos. 22, 23, 24* were prepared for each presidency 

 respectively. 



From these last a general Table was correctly made out ; half the number 

 of Officers yearly retiring, or otherwise quitting the service, being deducted 

 from the number of lives yearly exposed to the climate, on the principle 

 that the retirements themselves were probably scattered through the year in 

 which they occurred, and a portion of them only exposed to Indian mor- 

 tality for the whole period. With such extensive data, thus rendered available, 

 the Table No. 25,| was at length compiled ; and this may be deemed a fair 

 criterion of the law of mortality and expectation of life under existing 

 circumstances in India. At the more advanced ages, as individuals are for 

 the most part in Europe, the Northampton Tables are adopted, which being 

 less favorable to life than the Carlisle ascertained law of mortality, may 

 more faithfully represent the state of the case as applicable to the Anglo- 

 Indian community. 



The calculations themselves in the greater portion of the Tables, were 

 made by Mr. Fergusson, Auditor, King's Troops' Department, in the 

 Military Auditor General's Office, and the result of these Tables generally, 

 after due allowance for the errors, which must creep into tedious and 

 voluminous operations of this nature, may be the more confidently relied 

 upon when it is understood that, although wrought separately and perfectly 

 apart, they will be found to agree in all main points with Mr. Curnin's 

 more elaborate Tables, and particularly so if reference be had to his data of 

 the last twenty years only. 



* Vide Tables Nos. 22, 23 and 24. 



t Vide Table No. 25. 



