A letter to the Right Honble. the Secretary at War, on sickness and mortality in the West Indies : being a review of Captain Tulloch's statistical report / by Sir Andrew Halliday.

  • Andrew Halliday
Date:
1839
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Credit: A letter to the Right Honble. the Secretary at War, on sickness and mortality in the West Indies : being a review of Captain Tulloch's statistical report / by Sir Andrew Halliday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    seasoning in the garrison of Gibraltar ; the 85th had already been three years within the tropics; and the 98rd had just arrived from Ireland. The 85th and 98rd were quartered for the next two years in Barbados,—a healthy station ;—the 27th at Demerara,—an unhealthy one. The 85th lost only thirty-seven men, while the 98rd lost sixty, and the 27th a hundred and seventeen. Here, I certainly thought, there was a strong proof of the advantage of the men having become accustomed to the climate, as, in the same garrison, the casualties of the newly arrived regiment were nearly double the number of those in the corps, that had had three years’ seasoning. In 1826, the 85th regiment was moved to St. Lucia and Dominica; the 98rd to Antigua and St. Kitt’s, while the 27th was allowed to remain in British Guiana. This year the 85th lost thirty-four men, and the 98rd only eighteen; the 27th not less than fifty. In 1827, it was found necessary to remove the 27th regiment to St. Vincents and Grenada, but the other two remained stationary. The deaths in the 27th are this year reduced from fifty to thirty-three, while in the 85th, the second year of its residence in St. Lucia and Dominica, they are increased from thirty-four to seventy-five, while the 98rd lost not more than in the former year, viz., eighteen. In 1828, there was no change of any of these corps, and I find the mortality stands thus:—the 27th, in a healthy station, lost thirty-five men; the 85th regiment, in a most unhealthy one, only twenty-one; and the 98rd lost nineteen in two of the most healthy islands in the com- mand. In 1829, they also continued stationary. The deaths in the 27th regiment were this year twenty-five; in the 85th regiment forty-five; and in the 98rd they
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