Annual returns of the European army of the Bengal Presidency from 1858 to 1869, of the native army since its reorganization in 1861, and of the jails for each year from 1859 / by James L. Bryden.
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual returns of the European army of the Bengal Presidency from 1858 to 1869, of the native army since its reorganization in 1861, and of the jails for each year from 1859 / by James L. Bryden. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![INTRODUCTION. Every observer of the phenomena of disease in India, has recognised the statistics of the period importance of distinguishing in a statistical record the facts as tliey occui' in locality.'^ subordination to the meteorology of the different months of the year, and as exhibited within the widely-differing areas, which form the field for the obser- vation of the student of Indian disease. The tables which follow were, there- fore, designed in the form in which they are now produced, with the object of diowing the aspects of disease generally, and of the chief diseases which con- tri])ute to the sick-rates and death-rates in the types of the population of India represented in this volume, in relation to the place and season of their ap- 2)carance. The figures of the ten-year period, 1860-69, fairly represent the results for Afford for the British the cantonment life of the British, soldier in India. No disturbing elements ^ - - , T-ji %- 1 1 ,1 cantonment liie and liie due to war and consequent exposure have, durmg these years, aiiected the in the field, ratios proper to life in ii^antonments. In contrast to the ratios shown in time of peace, the tables of 1858 exhibit the results of the exposure of an army which as a body was new to India, The events of 1857 swept off a large portion of the body of twenty thousand men upon which fell the responsibility of meeting and repelling the outburst of the mutiny year. The army of 1858 was massed in the last months of 1857, and throughout tlie hot season and rains of 1858—its first season in India—it was retained in the field. The statements for 1858 show the results of this exposure ; and the statistics of 1859 prove that in that year also, although in a minor degree, the same influences were in operation. It is right, therefore,' that the statistics of 1858 and 1859 should stand separate from those of the succeeding ten years. And the ratios for the war jirovince of 1858 may most properly be accepted as a standard of comparison for an army that may under similar circumstances be exposed in Upper India in its first year of Indian service. During the six years from 1858 to 1863, the body here represented is 'irtually the same throughout, with the loss by death and invaliding and by the withdrawal of men whose period of service had expired, made good by the introduction of recruits. But since 1861, several regiments have annually been added, and in 1869 the new portion of the army constituted nearly one- half, 16,000 men having landed with their corps from England between 1864 and the spring of 1869. Eor the years from 1858 to 1861, while the army was as a body of one age statistics of Eegi- iu respect to its Indian service, it was not considered necessary to in- ^e'^^^ given for the last IIVG YG&il'S ODIv troduce in the series of tables the results for individual regiments. But for the last five years, regimental tables have been appended, chiefly with the ol3ject of putting on record the statistical history of each regiment for the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24749291_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
