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... and prevalent during the last year, unusually difficult to cure. Out of 48 cases, acute and chronic, there were 17 deaths, and to these must be added five other fatal cases of dysentery supervening diseases; so that the deaths from dysentery alone have exceeded one half the whole number of deaths during the year. In the 15th Regiment, the number of deaths from this disease was 10, but the large number of 94 deaths is stated to have arisen from intermittent fever, and it may be reasonably suspected that some of these were complicated with dysentery. Rheumatism stands next in the list of the most frequent diseases. Although less fatal, it is hardly less intractable than dysentery. In most of the cases which have come under my observation, I could trace their early origin to venereal taint.
The vicissitudes of this climate favour the development and progress of the disease, and it is rarely eradicated without the influence of a decided and prolonged change of climate. In the squadron stationed in this harbour, it has proved a distressing and unmanageable disease. In the Chusan Hospital, those of rheumatism were 14.35% of all the cases treated.
The foregoing record does not indicate accurately the number of venereal cases. Many patients suffering from other diseases, and admitted into hospital, were also suffering from venereal disease. It presents itself in this place in a form of peculiar virulence and malignity, such as I believe is rarely witnessed. It is difficult to account for its severity; it may be that it accumulates intensity from its prolonged and undisturbed existence in the unhappy creatures who are the sources of it. All...
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TILLCO./133
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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