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THE PRESENT EVOLUTION OF MAN—PHYSICAL
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ratio of 230 per thousand,[1] and so forth. The following tables, extracted from the official Report on Sanitary Measures in India in 1892-93, exhibits the difference between European and native troops in relation to the sum-total of the diseases prevalent in India. In contrasting the two races it should, however, be borne in mind, that while the whites on the one hand, since they are mostly unmarried, suffer more from the venereal diseases than the natives, whereby their sick and deathrates are unduly raised, the natives, on the other hand, are more exposed to infection by the other diseases. It should be noted also, that many of the whites who were invalided home would have died had they remained in India, and therefore that the total death-rate of the Europeans should be calculated rather on the basis of "total loss" than of "deaths" when comparing it with the "mortality, including absent deaths," of the natives.

ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS OF EUROPEAN TROOPS
IN INDIA.
Year. Average
Annual
Strength.
Ratio per 1000 of Strength.
Admis-
sions.
Constantly
Sick.
Deaths. Invalid-
ing.
Total
Loss.
1870–79 57,742 1475 60 19·34 43 62
1881–90 61,399 1471 73 14·24 27 42
1882–91 62,229 1448 74 14·17 26 40
1891 67,030 1379 79 15·89 27 43
1892 68,137 1517 84 17·07 24 41
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS OF NATIVE TROOPS
IN INDIA.
Year. Average
Annual
Strength.
Ratio per 1000.
Admis-
sions into
Hospital.
Constantly
Sick.
Deaths from Mortality
including
absent
Deaths.
Cholera. All
Causes.
1877–81 118,669 1422 48 1·94 24·90 27·40
1881–90 116,712 1054 35 1·28 13·44 16·91
1882–91 118,111 1020 34 1·45 13·09 16·61
1891 128,600 972 35 2·64 15·44 19·34
1892 127,355 1092 37 2·14 14·97 18·67
  1. Hirsch, vol. iii. p. 296.