CRIMEAN SERVICES OP “ l” TROOP, NOW “ 0 ” BATTERY, R.H.A. 351 
The deaths and missing to diseases sent to General Hospitals being 
27*62 per cent., whilst the deaths with the regiment were 2*54 per 
cent. The total casualties being— 
Died in General Hospitals ... ... ... 10 
„ Regimental Hospitals ... ... 12 
Killed in action ... ... ... ... 1 
Missing ... ... ... ... ... 5 
28—or 5*48 per cent. 
of the total sick and 13*18 per cent, of the average strength. 
The climate of the southern coasts of the Crimea may be thus 
described, it has no real autumn, but a double spring. January is 
generally a mild month, and towards the end of February the cold sets 
in and continues till April, sometimes the thermometer sinks to 20° to 
30° below freezing point. May, June, and July the weather is pleasant, 
mild, and the atmosphere cooled by occasional heavy showers, in August 
and September the weather is generally very warm and dry. October 
mild weather, November and a portion of December wet, cold and 
heavy rains set in, when what may be called the second summer com¬ 
mences and continues for about three weeks or into January. 
Altogether the climate may be considered as remarkably mild, and 
if we had been placed in other circumstances than living only under 
canvas and with only summer clothing during the most trying portion 
of the year, it might have proved far from unhealthy, and well adapted 
to the constitution of the British soldier. 
GENERAL. 
Return of Diseases. Nos. 2 and 3. 
The following is a return of the diseases from 1st of April, 1854, to 
31st March, 1855 (No. 2) :— 
The diseases may be again classified for more practical description, 
according to the arrangement of the weekly returns, and exhibit at the 
same time the situation and admissions each month (No. 3). 
Fever .—The first class of disease that comes under notice is that of 
fever, the cases were very numerous, the total being 140, of which 104 
were quotidian intermittents, and 3 tertians, 31 continued fevers, and 
2 well marked and very severe cases of remittent fever. Of the total, 
130 were discharged, 6 proved fatal, and 4 remained under treatment. 
Several of the intermittents had a tendency to pass into the remittent 
type, especially in Bulgaria, but in general they were of a mild character. 
Convalescence was very slow, in consequence of exposure to the weather, 
or bad accommodation for the sick. The continued fevers were not so 
numerous, but from the same causes were also generally slow in 
recovering. The principal amount of disease was in August, when 55 
were admitted, the Troop was then stationed at Yeeni bazaar, the 
causes that tended to produce this state I have previously described. 
The agues were well marked, and the disease yielded to the influence 
of quinine exhibited in large doses immediately on the solution of the 
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