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Credit: Gunshot injuries / by Sir Thomas Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Sect.'XI. Invalided to Englnnd Died on passage home Died in Hospitals in England Discharged to Duty Discharged frot]) Service 3318 13 4 290 3011 The final disposal of the 11,515 wounded admitted for hospi- tal treatment was then as follows:— Number of Wounded admitted into Hospital Died in h ospitnl or on board ship Percentage of Deaths Discharged to Duty Percentoge of Dischai-ged to Duty Discharged from further Scrvlte Percentage of Discharged from further Service 11,515 1775 15-41 6729 68-44 3011 26-15 AppUcation of the foregoing statistics.—If these and previous data be applied to injuries as they occur on a field of battle, then, out of every 100 casualties, there may be expected to be 20 deaths on the field itself, and, of the remaining 80 woimded who survive to come under hospital treatment, about 12 (12-33) may be ex- pected to die; about 47 (46-75) to be cured, and to be discharged to duty ; and about 21 (20-92) to be discharged as invalids from furtlier service. Ultimate results of wounds on other occasions.—A tabular ac- count of the final disposal of the French wounded during the Crimean War cannot be given with the same exactness, because the ' Guens ou Evacues,'—patients wliose wounds had become healed, or who were discharged for transfer to other hospitals,—are counted togetlier m the history; at the same time that no distinction has been made m either case between those who did, and those who did not, return to duty. The same remark applies to the French surgical history of the Italian War of 1859. It is to be presumed that Dr. Chenu could not obtain the necessary data to enable him to complete his admirable statistics of these wars so far as the points ot information under consideration were concerned. With regard to other recent wars in which Great Britain has been engaged, the information on the heads mentioned is also in- complete. The history of the New Zealand War, already quoted, atiords lull information up to the time of the invaliding of the wounded men to England, but the final disposal of these invalids IS not recorded m it. These remarks are also applicable to the account of the Ashanti War.<=2 The information respecting the final disposal of the wounded among the British troops in the Indian Mutiny ot 185/-59 is also only partially recorded, for the re- cords only show the disposal of those who were invalided home to -England—the numbers of those who were wounded and died in India, and of those wounded who returned to duty among them, have not been placed on record. The absence of the information is not a matter of much im-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21511421_0666.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
