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chester, Chichester, Athlone, Birr, Belfast, Buttevant, Templemore, Unitea Limerick, Fermoy, Cork, Stirling, Aberdeen.

8. The remaining stations, chiefly small towns not comprised in the preceding groups, or large towns where only a very small detachment of troops is quartered.

The following Table shows the admissions into hospital and deaths in each of these groups during the year, and the number of men who died while absent from their corps :—

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On reducing these numbers to the ratio per 1,000 of strength, for the purpose of comparison with similar data in the Report for 1860, the following results are obtained :

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This Table shows an increase in the admissions at the Seaport Towns, London, and Dublin, and a decrease in all the other groups, except the Camps, which remain at the same amount.

The improvement in the Dockyards and Arsenals has been chiefly at Chatham and Sheerness, where the admissions amounted to 1,305 per 1,000, against 1,498 in the preceding year; there was also a reduction at Pembroke Dock; but the proportion at Woolwich remained unchanged.

The increase in the Seaport Towns has been most marked at Devonport

and Dover, and has also been considerable at Portsmouth.

The admissions into hospital and deaths at each group of stations, by the different classes of diseases, are shown in the following Table :

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MIASMATIC DISEASES.-On subdividing this class of diseases as in previous Kingdom. Reports, the following results are obtained :

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Eruptive Fevers show a decrease at all the groups of stations compared with the results of 1860. Of 51 cases of small-pox, 23 occurred at Seaport Towns, 12 at Stations of Depôt Battalions, and 16 were distributed among the other groups; 14 of the cases were at Devonport and Plymouth, 8 at Dover, and 8 at Limerick. Seventy-five cases of scarlet fever are recorded, but the disease does not appear to have assumed the form of an epidemic, except among the recruits of the Brigade of Guards at Croydon, where 20 cases occurred between the 5th of April and the 10th of May in a strength of 282 men. Measles prevailed to a considerable extent among the soldiers' children at several stations during the year; but although cases occurred occasionally among the men, the disease cannot be said to have affected them epidemically. It was reported in the early part of the year to be epidemic among the children at Shorncliffe and Hythe, Aldershot, Athlone, Templemore, and Dublin, and at a later period at Sheerness, Canterbury, Edinburgh, the Curragh and Newbridge, Fermoy, Limerick, and Mullingar. Though thus wide-spread ainong the chiidren, it occasioned only 118 admissions and one death among the men. The fatal case occurred at Walmer, where the disease was not at the time prevalent.

Paroxysmal Fevers have been much lower in the Dockyards and Arsenals than in 1860, a result which seems to justify the opinion then expressed, that the ratio in that year was "unusually high at Woolwich, in consequence of a considerable number of men who had taken their discharge from the Honourable East India Company's Army, having, on their return to England, enlisted into the Artillery."

The ratio of admissions in the group of Seaport Towns has been raised above the previous average, in consequence of several regiments arriving from India and forming part of the garrisons; these corps furnished a large proportion of the cases of intermittent fever, the liability to which had been contracted during their previous service. The increased proportion in Dublin has arisen from a similar cause--the arrival of the 87th Regiment from China. Continued Fevers have not differed materially in their amount.

Dysentery and Diarrhoea.-The excess in the admissions by these diseases in the Seaport Towns has probably been due to the same cause as that of the paroxysmal fevers.

Sorethroat and Influenza have been much less prevalent than in 1860, United except among the troops in London. The difference has been most marked in Kingdom. the Dockyards and Arsenals.

Ophthalmia. The very great increase in the amount of ophthalmia in Dublin was entirely due to the arrival in June of the 87th Regiment from China, after a passage of six months, during the latter part of which ophthalmia had been very prevalent. Upwards of half of the admissions in Dublin by this disease were from that Corps. The precaution of sending all the men affected to Arklow and Drogheda, as soon as they were convalescent, proved successful in arresting the progress of the disease in a very short time. The slight excess in the amount of ophthalmia in the Seaport and Manufacturing Towns occurred chiefly in regiments just returned from abroad, where they had suffered from the disease.

ENTHETIC DISEASES.-The admissions on account of venereal diseases continue very high, exceeding in number one-third of the strength. There has been a slight increase in the proportion in the Seaport Towns, Camps, and at London and Windsor, and a decrease in all the other groups of stations, but particularly at Dublin, the Dockyards and Arsenals, and the "Remaining Stations."

The following Table shows the admissions per 1,000 of mean strength by these diseases at each of the large stations, compared with the results of 1860 :—

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The admissions into hospital by this class of diseases have amounted to 354 per 1,000 of the strength. The number constantly in hospital with them has been 23:45 per 1,000, and the average duration of the cases 24 19 days. The inefficiency caused by it has therefore been equal to the loss of the services of every soldier at home for 856 days, being a trifle under the amount in the preceding year.

On dividing the venereal diseases into two groups, syphilitic and gonorrhoeal, the following results are obtained as to their relative prevalence and duration :—

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Taking the principal diseases in each of these two groups separately, the average period in hospital is found to be, of primary syphilis 25-70 days; of secondary 27 73 days; of bubo 35:35 days; of gonorrhoea 1877 days; of swelled testicle 17 80 days; and of stricture of the urethra 29.90 days.

DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM have been more prevalent in the dockyards and arsenals and in London and Windsor than in 1860, and have prevailed to almost exactly the same extent as in that year at the seaport towns and Dublin. If, however, the admissions on account of influenza and tonsillitis, which are grouped with the miasmatic diseases, be added to this class, there will be found a marked reduction in all the groups except London and Windsor. The following summary illustrates this fact clearly :

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