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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 1, p. 534.

534 THE INDIAN EMPIRE [CHAP. European Native Prisoners Troops. Troops. PRIOD. PERIOD. PERIOD. ,CasesDeaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. 1r88-27 293.8 8.8 1831-53 8.3 3.0* I833-54 20.5 8.8 t828-37 . 33.7 8,0 1838-47. 32.2 13.0 i848-57 . 20.0 9.2 i861-7o 5.0 2.5* 1859-70 21.8 8.9 t8S58-67 . I5.1 9I 1870-4 4.1 2.6 I870-4 2.0 1.1 1870-4 7.0 2.8 I875-9 54 3.8 1875-9 2.8 i.6 1875-9 8.8 4.3 188o-4 3.3 2.3 ISSO-4 1.1 0.7 I880-4 4.0 2.2 1885-9 2.2 .4 1885-9 1 5-9 -9 6.2 3.6 1890-4 . 2.7 1.9 i890-4 2. 6 1890-4 3I. 2.1 1895-1900 1.5 1.! 1895-1900 '.3 .9 1895-1900 4.1 2.3 These figures refer to communities over the physical condi- tions of which the Government and its officers exercise more or less control, though the troops live among, and come into con- stant contact with, the general population. Moreover, there are conditions inalienable from the concentration of large bodies of men in barracks or jails which enhance the difficulties of ex- cluding sickness of a communicable nature. The results prior and subsequent to the sanitary era may be contrasted; and it should be noted that the period I895-I9oo is one in which cholera among the general population was, owing to famine and scarcity, prevalent beyond all previous record. A. E. ROBERTS. * Cases and deaths among those absent from their regiments not included before i87o.