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On the Mortality arising from Military Operations (Continued from p. 90.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
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That the difference is due to the greater amount of attention and of comforts the officer by his position is enabled to secure, appears from the facts relating to the siege of Gibraltar and the battle of Toulouse. At the former, officers were as favourably situated as it is possible to be during actual hostilities, except for a short time when there was a scarcity of provisions; and of 35 that were wounded, only 1 died—a mortality very little more than one third of that in the field. The battle of Toulouse was fought, immediately before the cessation of hostilities, close to a large city, which afforded ample accommodation for the wounded; and out of 117 officers brought to the hospitals there, only 3 died, being 1 in 39, or a less proportion than at Gibraltar.
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page 153 note * Commons' Journals, 1806. Appendix, No. 12
page 155 note * Commons' Journals, 1814 : Appendix, No. 5.
page 155 note † Ibid.
page 156 note * Commons' Journals, 1806 : Appendix, No, 12.
page 157 note * Commons' Journals, 1813 : Appendix, No. 5.
page 157 note † 4th Report Crimean Committee Appendix, No. 14.
page 160 note * Statistical Journal, vol. viii., p. 197.
page 163 note * There are other mistakes in M. Dupin's statements; for instance, he has inserted (I. 241) for the years 1813 and 1814, under the head of “British Corps,” the total deaths returned by the Adjutant-General, which include foreign and colonial corps. The returns themselves, however, for the years in question, are so defective, that probably the mistake of the author brought him nearer the truth. A very important typographical error occurs in the table referred to, where the discharges (congés) from the army for 1814 are stated at 3,429 instead of 34,293, the number also being placed in a wrong column. The discharges for that year were—British corps, 25,867; foreign and colonial corps, 8,426; total, 34,293.
page 163 note † Statistical Journal, vol. viii., p. 197.
page 165 note * Registrar-General's Annual Report, 1844, p. 520.
page 165 note † Statistical Journal, vol. xviii., p. 213.
page 166 note * There can be no doubt that British soldiers, from the extensive service required of them in our transmarine possessions, are liable to considerable losses from shipwreck; and in our own time we have seen them meet its horrors with the same undaunted fortitude with which they confront the dangers more properly arising from their profession. There is, however, no information to show the proportion of deaths arising from this cause; the whole are included in the deaths from disease and accidents.
page 166 note † History of Europe, vol. ix., p. 682.
page 166 note ‡ Statistical Abstract, 1830–1854, published by command of Her Majesty.
page 167 note * Mémoires, vol. viii., p. 6.
page 167 note † Vol. ii., p. 561.
page 167 note ‡ Lancet, 1837–8, ii., p. 145.
page 168 note * Naval Gunnery, 4th edition, p. 513.
page 168 note † Ibid., p. 511.
page 171 note * Mémoires, vol. v, p. 24.
page 171 note † “Le soldat de mer sur son escadre ne se bat qu'une fois dans une campagne; le soldat de terre se bat tous lea jours.”—Napoleon: Mémoires, vol. v., p 25.
page 172 note * Statistical Journal, vol. ii., p. 258.
page 173 note * Despatches, vol. v., p. 275.