Points of Interest in the Medical History of H. M.'s 58th Regiment during the Last Five Years, with Special Reference to the Advisability of Locating All, or Nearly All, Our European Troops in India on the Mountain Ranges

an epidemic, which was perhaps as protracted and severe in its effects, as any other that has ever occurred in a regiment, even in this country. This history not only contains points of interest and importance, (especially those bearing on the movements of troops into camp,) but it will also serve to show that the position of the 58th during the epidemic was in many respects similar to that in which a regiment would find itself when on active service in this country. Under these circumstances, a comparison of the state of health of the two wings possesses even greater interest than it would, if the men had been left in undisturbed possession of their barracks throughout the year. One of the strongest arguments against our locating our troops to a large extent on the hills is that, in the event of their being required to quell a disturbance on the plains, they would suffer terribly from exposure if sent down at unfavourable seasons. The experience of the regiments brought down from the hills to Delhi at the outbreak of the mutiny is said to prove that troops fresh from the hills would so suffer. Apart from the circumstance that there appears to be a difference of opinion a3 to the very fact of these regiments having suffered severely at all,* (except from cholera, which was raging as