Observations on the means of forming and maintaining troops in health in different climates and localities / by Edward Balfour.

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[1845]
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Credit: Observations on the means of forming and maintaining troops in health in different climates and localities / by Edward Balfour. 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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    o Average Annual Mortality per 1,000 in Civil Life in Britain. Mortality at the age of 29, 30, by the Carlisle Tables Mortality by Mr. Finlayson’s observations, deduced from the duration of life among the Government Annuitants Mortality in 17 of the largest towns* where troops are generally stationed Mortality among the East India Company’s labourers Mortality among the parties insured in the Equitable Office from 1801 to 1832 inclusive, chiefly the better fed classes, between 20 and 40 - Mortality among the Metropolitan Police Force - Died per 1,000 per Annum, at the Age of 29 to 30. io- 13- 15*7 9-1 9* Average Annual Mortality per 1,000 of Men ini Civil Life in Britain J 11-6 The different circumstances of most of the classes from whom the above, averages have been drawn, prevent their being placed in comparison with soldiers. The inhabitants of towns are the individuals whose position most closely approximates with that in which troops are placed ; and the mortality among the inhabitants of towns in the prime of life is nearly one-third greater than among the rural population. In comparing, therefore, the mortality of military with that of^civil life, it becomes necessary to take for our standard the average of those towns in which the troops are generally quartered, and in the previous Table this is shown to be at the rate of 15'7 per 1,000. Mortality among Troops Country .f Annual Mortality per 1,000. Average in civil life in 17 of the largest British towns,* at 20 to 40 years of age Household Cavalry from 1830 to 1836 Dragoon Guards and Dragoons, from 1830 to 1836 Troops serving in Ireland, 1797 to 1828, average strength 36,921 Depots of West Indian Regiments, from 1830 to 1836 15‘7 14*5 15*3 155 18-5 Average Annual Mortality per 1,000 amongl British Troops in Britain -J The deaths among the Foot Guards amount to 21*6 per 1,000 annually, but as causes, hitherto unexplained, seem to affect this branch of the service, increasing the deaths above the usual number, they have been excluded in * The towns from which this average is drawn are Chester, Leeds, Bolton, Bury, Preston, Wigan, Bradford, Stockport, Macclesfield, with the averages of York, Hull, Norwich, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Liverpool, and ol Glasgow and London The information in this Table has been drawn chiefly from Mr. Chadwick’s Report on the Sanatory Condition of the Labouring Classes. t These points of information have been obtained from the Statistical Reports on the Health of Troops in the United Kingdom.