PRESIDENCY DIVISION, ADEN, AND BOMBAY MARINE.

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       6. There remained on sick reports of all corps, &c., present at the end of the year 1871,
87 cases of disease.

       7. The admissions during the year 1872 were 3,753.

       8. The deaths amounted to 25 against 26 of the preceding year.

       9. One case only appears to have been transferred; and at the close of the year 1872,
there remained 75 sick, being 12 less than remained from 1871.

       10. The admissions of European officers on the sick list, were 26 against 11 of the year
1871. Fifteen of these admissions occurred in 6 officers; one thrice for chronic rheumatism
and diarrhœa, one twice for dyspepsia and chronic liver disease; one twice for ague, simple
orchitis, and acute rheumatism, and one twice for ague. Two of these cases were sent on
medical certificate to Europe, one for repeated attacks of intermittent fever, and one for chronic
liver disease. The first of these was from the 21st Regiment N. I., the second from the
detachment 11th Regiment N. I.

       11. The total of admissions, 3,753, was made up from the several hospitals as follows:—

Table III.

       12. The proportion of admissions per cent. to strength varies considerably. In the
table showing these percentages, the stations were garrisoned, and those from which relieved
are shown—

Table IV.

       13. The average daily sick, made up from that of each corps, wing or detachment was—

Table V .

against 93.99 of the preceding year.