On the Mortality arising from Military Operations (Continued from p. 174)

Abstract

That the difference is due to the greater amount of attention and of comforts the officer by his position is enabled to secure, appears from the facts relating to the siege of Gibraltar and the battle of Toulouse. At the former, officers were as favourably situated as it is possible to be during actual hostilities, except for a short time when there was a scarcity of provisions; and of 35 that were wounded, only 1 died—a mortality very little more than one third of that in the field. The battle of Toulouse was fought, immediately before the cessation of hostilities, close to a large city, which afforded ample accommodation for the wounded; and out of 117 officers brought to the hospitals there, only 3 died, being 1 in 39, or a less proportion than at Gibraltar.