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    "ocrText": "7\n6\nThe chasseurs are a chosen body of robust and intelligent\n1 out of 6 wounded. During the first five or six weeks\nmen, and the site of their encampment is a very healthy\nof the siege, the health of the troops was good, and the\none. The 85th regiment is the worst treated of all; it counts\nwounds pursued a favorable course; at a later period the\nwounds did not do as well.\nabout 200 patients, waiting until places can be found for\nthem in the hospitals. This regiment is badly sheltered,\nFrom the facts which have been presented, it is very\nand presents all the causes of disease in an exaggerated\nevident that the lives of military men are much more en-\nstate. Among the other regiments, the 57th has nearly 200\ndangered by disease than by wounds received in battle.\nsick, the 10th has 150, the 61st 200, the 6th dragoons 40,\nIt is then one of the highest duties of an army surgeon to\n7th dragoons 30, 4th hussars 50, infantry of marine 20, engi-\nmake himself well acquainted with the correct principles\nneers 13, artillery 100. In all these regiments there is not a\nof military hygiene, and to exert his influence to the great-\nest possible extent in promoting the health and physical\nsingle* case of sickness among the officers, who are better\nenergy of the soldiers who are entrusted to his care. Your\nlodged and fed.\" The whole number of French troops sent\nCommittee proposes to consider the subject of military hy-\nto the army of the East, as already mentioned, was 309,268;\nthe whole number of deaths was 9,229. Of this number\ngiene in some of its most important details.\nthere were 7,500 who were killed on the battle-field, or not\nI. The selection of a ground for encampment.\nafterwards heard from. The total attacks of cholera in the\nIt is a matter of the utmost importance, whenever it is\nFrench army of the East amounted to 18,400. Of this num-\nber 11,000 were fatal. Attacks 1 to 15 of the army; deaths\npracticable, to avoid encamping in a malarious district.\nto 11°.ths of the cases. The total attacks of typhus were\nThe camping ground should be dry, moderately elevated,\n1\nabout 35,000; total deaths from the same disease 17, 515.\nand with a sufficient slope to prevent water from stagnating\nThe whole number of cases of diarrhoea was 19,339, of dys-\nwhen it rains. It should be in the vicinity of pure water\nentery 6, 105. Scurvy prevailed to a great extent during\nfor drinking and washing, and there should be an abundant\nthe severe cold of winter, and during the sultry heat of sum-\nsupply of fuel for cooking. The want of water in the\nmer, but almost disappeared during the spring and autumn.\nvicinity of an encampment is a very formidable evil. When\nScrive says that \"the single efficient cause of scurvy was\nthe French army, after the battle of Alma, encamped near\nthe absence of fresh vegetables.'' He adds, \"Scurvy, like\nthe village of Mackenzie, they found but two or three wells,\nwhich were soon exhausted. The soldiers called the camp\ntyphus, can be created at will.\" A considerable number of\nFrench soldiers died from exposure to cold, frosted limbs,\nthe camp of thirst. They endured great suffering in\netc. Most of these were intemperate persons. Among the\nconsequence of the want of water. In selecting a site for\nwounded in battle, 1 in 5 died on the field, the proportion\nencampment on the banks of a river, care should be taken\nbeing the same in the three battles of Alma, Inkerman, and\nto guard against the danger of inundation by a rapid rise of\nTraktir bridge. The proportion of amputations was about\nthe water, from melting of snow, or from a sudden fall of"
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