Influence of India on the health of British women, and on the prevention of uterine affections / by Edward John Tilt.

Date:
1868
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    ON THE HEALTH OF BEITISH WOMEN. We have conqiiered India, but we succumb to its climate. The newly-arrived soldier bears up best against it, while every additional year of his sojourn renders him less able to contend against the Indian climate. So it is with English women; they arrive in India, fresh and rosy, but the first hot season blanches all colour from their cheeks, and the longer they remain, the more subject are they to deranged menstruation and to uterine affection. Children born in India, of British parents, pine after the fourth year, and must be sent to Eng- land. This means, that while we have founded Anglo-Saxon empires in America and Australia, we can only garrison India. I gather from Sir E. Mai-tin's papers,* on the sani- tary state of the British Anny in India, that there were lately attached to our large garrison in India 19,306 women and girls enumerated as British-born subjects in India, of whom 9,717 were twenty years of age and upwards, including 7,570 Avives, 1,146 widows, and 1,001 unmarried women. 786 wives were under the age of twenty. The number of wives of English origin, under the age of forty-five, scattered aU over India, was said to be 7,626. The mortahty amongst the wives of officers docs not a]>pear to be very great, if we judge only by the rate of the » Lmirct. IRC8.