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There disease were less frequent during the past year than usual.

As to the great mortality amongst the Troops, I cannot speak positively, as I am not sufficiently acquainted with the details of their duties, food, etc., and general management, but it seems to me quite certain that the cause must have originated with themselves, otherwise the Civilians, especially the Police, must have suffered much more than they did. From what I saw of the Military Hospital on two visits, I must say that the patients appeared to be much too crowded considering the season and the nature of their disease. The exhalations from patients labouring under Remittent & Continued Fever are always noxious, and if several such patients are put into one room with a limited supply of air, that air certainly becomes more unfit to support life in a healthy condition, so that few healthy persons could long resist continued exposure to such an atmosphere without being injuriously affected by it. It is, therefore, quite clear that if a person already sick is put into such a room night and day, he has but a small chance of recovery; and, as diseased action goes on quickly in strong full-blooded constitutions, it is not difficult to see why the strongest soldiers often died the quickest.

Table 1.3. Showing the number of Policemen (including Supernumeraries), their wives and children, the number of deaths, and the proportion of deaths to strength, in 1850.

Strength	Europeans	Foreigners	Chinese	Total	Deaths	Proportion of Deaths to Strength
Men	101	24	10	164	6	3.65 pc.
Wives
Children

The Supernumeraries were employed in the place of the 59th Regiment, as guards at the Naval Stores and the Jail...

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE 133 COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON 2 C.O. 172. There disease were less frequent during the past year than usual. As to the great mortality amongst the Troops, I cannot speak positively, as I am not sufficiently acquainted with the details of their duties, food, etc., and general management, but it seems to me quite certain that the cause must have originated with themselves, otherwise the Civilians, especially the Police, must have suffered much more than they did. From what I saw of the Military Hospital on two visits, I must say that the patients appeared to be much too crowded considering the season and the nature of their disease. The exhalations from patients labouring under Remittent & Continued Fever are always noxious, and if several such patients are put into one room with a limited supply of air, that air certainly becomes more unfit to support life in a healthy condition, so that few healthy persons could long resist continued exposure to such an atmosphere without being injuriously affected by it. It is, therefore, quite clear that if a person already sick is put into such a room night and day, he has but a small chance of recovery; and, as diseased action goes on quickly in strong full-blooded constitutions, it is not difficult to see why the strongest soldiers often died the quickest. Table 1.3. Showing the number of Policemen (including Supernumeraries), their wives and children, the number of deaths, and the proportion of deaths to strength, in 1850. Strength Europeans Foreigners Chinese Total Deaths Proportion of Deaths to Strength Men 101 24 10 164 6 3.65 pc. Wives Children The Supernumeraries were employed in the place of the 59th Regiment, as guards at the Naval Stores and the Jail...

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Table 1.3. Showing the number of Policemen (including Supernumeraries), their wives and children, the number of deaths, and the proportion of deaths to strength, in 1850.

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