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there disease were less frequent during the part year.
than usual
As to the great suortality amongst the Troops, I cannot speak pozitively, as I am not sufficiently requainted with the details of their duties, food, to, and general management, but it seems to me quite certain that the cause must have originated with themselves, other, otherwise the Civilians,
in some way o
expecially the Pulice, must have suffered much than they did. From what I saw of
tine
the Military Arapital
Imust say
Mme ML
two visits,
that the patients appeared to be much too crowded considering the season t and the nature of their disease. The
the year
under
ixhalation: from patients labouring "Remittent & Continued Force are always.
on
n
lese noxious, and if several such patients put into one room with a limited supply of air, that nin certainly becomes more on unfit to support life in a healthy condition,
bees
173.
so that few healthy persons
could long resist
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continued exposure to such atmosphere without. being at length. injurionely affected by it. It is, therefore, quite clear that if a person already sick
and left there night
is puts into such a room and day, he has but a
chance
diseased action goes my mine action goes
and
of recovery; and, as
quickly in presionely
strong full blooded constitutions, it is not difficult. to see why the stortect and
often died the quickest ..
strongest
soldiers
Table 1.3. Showing the unster of Policemen
-
ケ
(including Supernumeraries ) their wives
and children, the number of deaths, and
the proportion of deaths to stacngth,
in 1850.
Strength Europeans Forans | Chinese
29
Wände
Fotal
2007 thilden
Peur
Jcatt
Total Proportion "Jofbeaths,
tos Strength.
101 24 10 164 6 3.65 pc.
The
were
employed
Supernumeraries in the place of the 59th Regiment, as quards at the Naval Stores and the Jail...