admissions to strength; also one giving comparative view of the same from 1859 to 1864, which
may be useful.
A memo from the Acting Principal Medical Officer, De Naultic, 73 Regiment, explanatory of these
returns, and replying to the questions propounded in your letter, is enclosed.
I have &. (Signed) J. L. Roberts, Ap. Meilty Beay.
(Copy)
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Remarks to accompany return for the Information of His Excellency The Governor.
A return has been made for the information of His Excellency The Governor, showing the Corps in Garrison, the period of their stay in the Island, their mean strength, and No. of admissions for all disease, and for venereal diseases alone, (stating these under their several heads) in the year 1866.
From this it appears that the Mean annual strength of the white Troops was 849 and the percentage of venereal admissions