In the Household Cavalry the admissions are still most numerous in the Royal Horse Guards, but the difference is less marked than formerly, the proportion in that corps having diminished, while in the two regiments of Life Guards it has increased.

In the Cavalry of the Line the admissions have been greatly in excess in the 18th Hussars, at Aldershot and Brighton; the 12th Lancers, at York and Aldershot; the 15th Hussars, at Cahir, the Curragh, and Dublin; the 4th Dragoon Guards, at Birmingham and Dublin; and the 9th Lancers, at Aldershot. With the exception of the 12th Lancers, these are the Cavalry Regiments which had the highest proportion of admissions into hopital in 1860. The 12th Lancers returned home from India in the end of June 1860, and it is probable that the high ratio of admissions into hospital in 1861 may have been to some extent due to their previous service in a tropical climate.

The regiments in which the admissions were much below the average were the 5th Dragoon Guards, at Brighton, Aldershot, Norwich, and Ipswich; the 1st Dragoons, at Dublin, Newbridge, and Birmingham; the 5th Lancers, at Aldershot and Hounslow; the 11th Hussars, at Manchester, the Curragh, and Dublin; and the 16th Lancers, at Hounslow and Aldershot. It is worthy of remark that these were the five Cavalry Regiments in which the lowest ratio of admissions occurred in 1860, so that during the year now under review they have maintained the same healthy standard.

In the Military Train the admissions were most numerous in the 1st Bat- United talion at Aldershot and Woolwich, and least in the 5th Battalion at the Curragh, Kingdom. Woolwich, and Shorncliffe. The 1st Battalion (at that time the 7th) furnished the highest ratio in 1860.

The Scots Fusilier Guards continue to furnish the lowest proportion of admissions in the Foot Guards, but the difference is less marked than formerly.

The Infantry Regiments having the highest ratio of admissions were the 61st, at Plymouth and Aldershot; the 53rd, at Devonport and Aldershot; the 45th, at Aldershot; the 76th, at Waterford and Glasgow; the 84th, at Manchester and Aldershot; the 2nd Battalion, 16th Regiment, at the Curragh and Aldershot; and the 2nd Battalion, 25th Regiment, at Aldershot and Shorncliffe. The corps which furnished the smallest proportion of cases were the 2nd Battalion, 17th_Regiment, at Shorncliffe, Dublin, and the Curragh; the 1st Battalion, 10th Regiment, Aldershot and Shorncliffe; the 26th, at Dublin and Edinburgh; the 86th, at Newry, the Curragh, and Dublin; the 2nd Battalion, 18th Regiment, at Shorncliffe and Portsmouth; the 2nd Battalion, 21st Regiment, at Shorncliffe; and the 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment, at Cork, the Curragh, and Dublin.

When it is found that the most sickly and most healthy corps have been stationed at the same places during a considerable part of the year, as in the instances of the 18th Hussars and 5th Dragoon Guards, the 15th and 11th Hussars, the 9th and 5th Lancers, the 2nd Battalion, 25th Regiment, and 1st Battalion, 10th Regiment, an important field of inquiry is suggested to the Medical Officers of sickly corps into the causes to which this great difference in the condition of the regiments is to be attributed.

RE-VACCINATION.

During the year 2,053 soldiers and 4,395 recruits were vaccinated with the following results. The numbers from which the ratios have been calculated will be found in Abstract, No. II. of the Appendix.

These results show a smaller proportion of perfect vaccine pustules, and a larger ratio of failures, especially among the recruits, than the returns of the preceding year.

During the course of the year in an average force of 88,955 men, there were 51 cases of small-pox reported, of which four died. They are all stated to have occurred in men bearing marks of vaccination.

The proportion of recruits bearing marks of vaccination is shown by the returns of the different recruiting districts to have been as follows :—

Strength

This Table shows a considerably lower proportion than in the preceding year of men bearing marks of small-pox, and also a slight reduction in the proportion bearing no satisfactory marks.

Section II.

On the Extent of Invaliding.

The following Table shows the number of men discharged by invaliding in 1861 from the Army serving at home, and also the number from the Corps included in the preceding remarks on the health

of the

different arms :

We have already, p. 13, noticed the cause of the higher ratio of invaliding in 1861 from the Cavalry and Infantry of the Line, and have shown the classes of diseases for which the invaliding has taken place. It does not appear necessary, therefore, to make any further remarks on the subject.

*The ratio for 1860 only.