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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,

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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...