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Table II.—The amount and ratio of mortality among the 
horses, together with the number and ratio of horses cast (dis¬ 
charged) in consequence of disabilities. 
Years. 
strength. 
Died. 
Ratio of Deaths 
per Cent, 
of the mean 
Strength. 
Cast. 
Ratio of Horses Cast 
per Cent, on 
Account 
of Disabilities. 
Reduction of 
Hoises by Death 
and Disabilities 
per Cent. 
1830 
245 
6 
2.4 or 1 in 41 
16 
6.5 or 1 in 15 
8.9 
1831 
256 
12 
4.6 or 1 in 21 
15 
5.8 or 1 in 17 
10.5 
1832 
268 
10 
3.7 or 1 in 27 
13 
4.8 or 1 in 20 
8.5 
1833 
267 
6 
2.2orlin 44 
20 
7.4 or 1 in 13 
9.7 
1834 
250 
2 
.8 or 1 in 125 
20 
8.0 or I in 12 
8.8 
1835 
248 
4 
1.6 or 1 in 62 
35 
14.1 or 1 in 7 
15.7 
1836 
238 
10 
4.2 or 1 in 24 
23 
9.6 or 1 in 10 
13.9 
1837 
244 
8 
3.2orlin 30 
26 
10.6 or 1 in 9 
13.9 
Total . 
2016 
58 
168 
Mean of eight \ 
years.. 262 / 
7 and 
2-8ths 
|2.8orrm 35 
i 21 
8.3 or 1 in 12 
11.2 or 1 in 9 
This table shews that the average annual strength of the regi¬ 
ment was 252, the average deaths 7.2-8ths, the centesimal ratio 
of deaths 2.8, the mean annual number of horses cast 21, the 
centesimal ratio of cast horses 8.3, and the mean annual reduc¬ 
tion of the regiment by death and casting 11.2 per cent. 
Table III.—^The causes of the deaths which took place among 
the horses during a period of eight years. 
Fatal Diseases and Accidents, Died. 
Diseases of the brain (staggers) . 4 
Lock-jaw (trismus). 2 
Disease of the lungs.23 
Hydrothorax (water in the chest) . 1 
Disease of the abdominal viscera. 3 
IShot oil account of 
Farcy. 3 
(ilanders. 6 
Fracture of a leg . 6 
— a coffin-bone. 1 
— a knee (patella) .. 1 
— the skuil. 1 
— the pelvis. 1 
— the haunch-bone . 2 
Injury of the spine by a fall. 3 
Injury by a cart. 1 
Total Deaths.68 
From this tabic it is obvious that affection of the lungs is by 
far the most fatal disease among cavalry horses. Two-fifths of 
the mortality have a pulmonary origin. 
