Statistical reports on the sickness, mortality, & invaliding among the troops in the United Kingdom, the Mediterranean, and British America / prepared from the records [by A.M. Tulloch, H. Marshall, and T.G. Balfour] of the Army Medical Department and War Office returns.
- Great Britain. Army Medical Services
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistical reports on the sickness, mortality, & invaliding among the troops in the United Kingdom, the Mediterranean, and British America / prepared from the records [by A.M. Tulloch, H. Marshall, and T.G. Balfour] of the Army Medical Department and War Office returns. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IV. Newfoundland. Table XI. Showing the Sick¬ ness and Mortality among the Troops in Newfoundland. Years, Newfoundland Veteran Companies. Royal Artillery. Average Strength. Deaths | Mean j Sick. Average Strength. Deaths. Mean Sick. 1825 321 18 20 61 4 •4 1826 292 7 17 56 1 1*2 2* 1827 310 8 18 62 1828 336 14 20 72 2 3*6 1829 275 15 12 69 1 2* 1830 258 15 16 68 3 1 • 1831 239 16 16 65 3 2* 1832 205 8 24 57 1 3* 1833 189 7 10 55 1 3 1S34 241 3 12 60 1 1 ‘6 1835 255 11 12 66 1 2* 1836 268 10 14 71 2-7 Total . 3,189 132 191 i 762 lV 22'8 Ratio per 10001 of Strength jj • • 41* 60- j mmm • • 22* 30' 4l^hhiS Tatble lt a1?pear\that the morta,1Ity am™g the Veterans has been upwards of hin ]h°ooand.ati;nUa yJ0? the avf raSe of the last 12 years, while that of the Artillery has in mrrV ~~ pei ^°usand during the same period. The high ratio among the forme/may j be accounted for by their advanced age, nearly one half being between 33 and 40 hnnlpO6 the^half a5°ye that Perlod of hfe ; but it appears still more attributable to the nmediate effects of intemperance, as the records of that corps furnish most startlino- eudence of the general prevalence and destructive consequence of this vice & 18‘>5 and°1832ain^Gd 10 Medical ,D*Pf tment, of those who died between and 1832 111 the Veteian Companies, we find the following causes of death recorded:— Table XII. Showing the prin¬ cipal Diseases and Causes of Death among the Veteran Companies in New¬ foundland. Total Deaths from 1825 to 1832 inclusive Whereof— Died by Suffocation from drinking „ Delirium Tremens. „ Apoplexy, principally from intoxication . Found dead, supposed from same cause . Drowned. Contusion .... . . 100 10 15 15 2 1 1 — 44 JLneu Dy disease 56, viz.— By Fevers Diseases of the Lungs . . , [Feb. Cont. Com „ Typhus [Pyrexia [ Pneumonia Phthisis ) Catarrhus Asthma Diseases of the (Hepatitis Liver . . . [Icterus. Diseases of the Sto-f Gastritis mach and Bowels [Diarrhoea Dropsy . . . Ascites. Total 37 6 7 3 56 wav u oue-hiilf of the mortality among the Veterans has been in any • ) < butable to natural causes, and as large a proportion might have occurred among persons at the same period of life, even in this country. g diseases^af thpS ^ Station.,are not efficiently complete to admit of our detailing the to the v/t h Au 1 Vi Too aSImuar mn]uleness’ nor even to carry the investigation relative o i eJn be>ond 1832 ; bu1/ as large a proportion of the deaths has been traced to the PeranL(?J man)r of the admissions into hospital are likely to have been attributable to the same cause; consequently, even if obtained, these Returns, when subject to so manifest source of error, could have afforded no accurate data for determining the influence of this climate on the constitution of our troops. spirituous6P10?0^.*?1? of‘ .£» garrison, by their own imprudence in the use of ■.p iituous liquois, affords a striking illustration of the progressive effect and ultimate M ,0^;r°vnt,m,ed hfbitS °f —F-nce. In .Nova Scotia, for low a, can beSip.c,cT1 PreVai'f l° a I5«»‘ the troops, the mortality is as , b expected in any climate, even among persons of abstemious habits/ But the.e the troops are, for the most part, men in the prime of life whose excesses produce](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30449625_0174.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
