Notes on the medical topography of the interior of Ceylon : and on the health of the troops employed in the Kandyan Provinces, during the years 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 ; with brief remarks on the prevailing diseases / by Henry Marshall.

Date:: 1821

Credit: Notes on the medical topography of the interior of Ceylon : and on the health of the troops employed in the Kandyan Provinces, during the years 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 ; with brief remarks on the prevailing diseases / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$No. II.—See page 133. Return of the Strength of the ] Qth Regiment of Foot, the annual Number of Men that joined, with the Number that died, was invalided, discharged the Service; as also the Number of Men that deserted, the Proportion -per Cent, of Deaths to the whole Number, and the Number of commissioned Officers that died from the 2Qth April 1796 to the 25tk December 1816, divided into annual Periods. CO U 1 c Casualties. en inmis died. gth »—4 < —A, d • <u u p '^^ Year. p o •a s cs O cn <u »-> Where employed. an Sti •? □ -a 5 harge o ■tion c Cent, le Nu ;r of V 9 Q c Disc Des Total •opor per who umb( ione( From |. April y 1035 • 20 2 8 30 1.9 /■ At Sea; four Companies J at Cape of Good Hope; 28, to 1 J four Companies at Co- Dec.31.J C lombo. 1797 1030 25 46 2 4 52 4.4 Colombo. 1798 1002 24 26 22 22 2 72 2.5 H Colombo. 1799 941 It 90 2 1 93 9.5 3 \ on Service in India. 1800 882 34 72 13 3 4 92 8.1 Trincomale. 1801 854 64 39 39 4.6 1 Trincomale. 1802 905 90 46 21 1 68 5.0 2 Trincomale. 1803 843 6 338 1 339 40.0 10 Kandy and Trincomale. 1804 642 138 128 12 140 19.9 3 Trincomale. 1805 528 26 44 27 16 87 8.3 3 Trincomale. 1806 451 10 12 12 2 27 2.6 Colombo. 1807 793 369 20 7 27 2.5 Colombo. 1808 828 62 17 9 12 38 2.0 1 Colombo. 1809 796 6 45 42 3 90 5.6 2 On the Peninsula of India. 1810 776 70 39 29 68 S.O 2 Colombo. 1811 729 21 17 15 17 49 2.3 I Colombo. 1813 785 105 14 27 8 49 1.7 Colombo. 1813 938 202 20 11 1 32 2.1 1 Colombo. 1814 910 4 67 45 5 117 7.3 2 Trincomale. 1815 1142 349 114 63 2 179 9.9 5 Trincomale. 1816 1019 56 38 60 98 3.7 2 Trincomale. Annual Proportion of Deaths per Cent 7.2 Annual Proportion per Cent, invalided .' 2.4 The elements of the above Return were extracted from the Regimental Books, under the superintendence of Lieut. Hawker the Adjutant of the Corps, ' By the preceding Return it appears that the corps was more healthy during the periods it was stationed at Colombo than while it was quartered at Trincomale.$