SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEMERARY, ^'^C. 129 



T A B L E 



Of Deaths hy Disease in the British Army serving in the W 2st Indies, 







European Sc 



Idiers. 





Negro 



Soldiers. 



Officers. 





Largest 



Medium Monthly 





Per 







Per 







Force. 



Returns. 



Died. 



Cent. 



Force. 



Died. 



Cent. 



Died. 



1796, April, 



19,676 



15,881 



6484 



40^ 



2495 



75 



3 



226 



1797, April, 



13,627 



11,503 



3766 



32f 



3080 



118 



4 



99 



1798, April, 



9192 



8416 



1602 



^7h 



3055 



252 



8 



38 



1799, Feb. 



7654 



7202 



876 



ni 



3354 



258 



7i 



24 



1800, Feb. 



8840 



7890 



1221 



iH 



4320 



286 



6h 



58 



1801, Feb. 



11,745 



10,315 



2340 



00 3 



4604 



276 



6 



104 



1802, Feb. 



10,19s 



9038 



990 



11 



3840 



199 



5 



41 



Original Army, 



19,676 





17,173 











590 



It appears, therefore, that the mortality of the whites ex- 

 ceeds that of the negroes in like circumstances by above four 

 to one. 



Not only the negro and the planter are both accommodated 

 by the fetching of labourers from Africa, the general mass of 

 plenty is thereby augmented. It is very little that any negro- 

 slave, living all his life in Africa, can add by his toil to the 

 useful produce of nature. The labor of a negro for one year 

 on a sugar or a coffee plantation beside the Demerary, im- 

 proved and aided as it is by the order of society, by the im- 

 plements and processes of art, and by so many lights from sci- 

 ence, adds more to the means for the sustenance of human 

 life, than the same negro could have produced by ten years 



