What Is Climatic Disease?

admitted that this was true in the case of many of our foreign stations. Thus, the death-rate of the British soldier in India averaged (up to 1855) 69 per 1,000, the rate at home being 9 per 1,000 among men at the soldier's age. But when the causes of this high mortality were enquired into, it was found that by far the largest number of deaths were due to a few diseases of the zymotic class; so that, when the Indian Sanitary Commission presented their report in 186*3, they were able to say that," were it possible wholly to put an end to deaths arising from the various classes of fevers, from cholera, dysentery, amd diarrhoea, together with hepatitis and its consequences, the troops serving in India would become as healthy as any body of men in the world." The Commissioners pronounced the opinion that these diseases were, to a large extent, " dependent on removable conditions and habits." I may mention that one of these habits was the drinking of the fourth part of a quart bottle of raw spirits every day, as