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THE HORSES OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. 
we find that the average of the twenty-five year period 
1845-69, was 2*6 per cent., or twenty-six deaths in every 
thousand horses per year. This average is raised by the 
losses in the field in 1864 (the Schleswig-Holstein War), and 
in 1866 being included in it. In ordinary peace time the 
mortality during the period aforesaid would seem to have 
ranged thirteen to twenty deaths per thousand horses per 
annum. 
At the Remount Depots, in the period 1835*44, the losses 
are shown as follows : 
By glanders . 
By influenza . 
By other maladies . 
0 5 7 per cent. 
0'53 
1-51 
>J 
Total . . 2’61 
During the period 1845-69 they were— 
By glanders and farcy . 
By strangles and catarrh 
By influenza . 
By other maladies . 
03 
0-6 
1-5 
1-0 
per cent. 
yy 
yy 
Total . . 2-5 
The mortality at the Remount-Depots was least in 1849, 
when it was sixteen per thousand ; and greatest in 1855, 
when it reached forty-seven per thousand. Glanders was 
then more fatal than during any other year of the period, 
carrying off eighty out of 3349 remounts. No cases of this 
disease appeared in 1866. In 1867, strangles and catarrhal 
affections destroyed seventy-six out of 4886 remounts, the 
highest number on record. Influenza was most fatal in the 
depots in 1860, causing sixty deaths among 3927 young 
horses, and least so in 1859. when there were only three 
fatal cases among 3450 remounts. The number of deaths 
'rom influenza was considerably above the average in the 
years 1845-47, 1853-55, and 1860-62; and much below it in 
1852-54, in 1859, and 1866. 
We have been tempted to pursue this portion of our subject 
with some minuteness of detail in the hope of drawing atten¬ 
tion to the want of such statistics in our own Services. Even 
in the brief form in which they are given in the little work now 
before us they have their use. Why should we not have an 
Army Veterinary, as well as an Army Medical Blue Book? 
Apart from its importance to science as a contribution of care¬ 
fully observed data bearing upon the conditions of health and 
disease amongst domesticated animals—and we have high 
authority for saying that such data would possess very great 
