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no cases of Heat Effects or Hoat Exhaustion occurred, but un­
doubtedly the large numbers of men who suffered from ulcers,
relapses of malaria, and thoso unable to recover from the most
trivial of injuries, was due to a very lowered vitality fol­
lowing a severe summer, The reason Heat Effects etc. were
not contracted was duo to the lay-out of Barrack Rooms which
always had fresh currents of air passing through and at no time
had a more humid atmosphere than the outside air.
STATISTICAL TABLE 1.

Actual Ratio per 1000
1945 1944 1945 1944
Average strength 300 300 (excluding 1C# on leave)
of Unit
Total admitted to 111 Not recorded 370.00
hospital
Average constantly 3 Not recorded 10.00
sick in hospital
Sick in Barracks 506 328 1687.00 1093-30
Average constantly 14 Not recorded 46.60
sick in Barracks
Deaths in hospital 1 Nil 3.39

Deaths out of hos­ 1 1 3.30 3.30
pital
Discharged as medi­ 4 5 13-30 16.30
cally unfit

STATISTICAL TABLE 2.
(Diseases)

Actual Ratio per 1000
1945 1944 1945 1944
Malaria 174 93 580.06 310.96

Syphilis 8 27 26.66 90.00
Gonorrhoea 9 43 30.06 143.30
Diseases of diges­ 15 7 50.00 23.30
tive system
Diseases of respi­ 18 13 60.00 43.30
ratory system
Diseases of the eye 13 11 43.33 36.60
Dysentery 10 9 33.33 30.00
Diarrhoea 4 7 13-30 23.30

Minor septic 163 51 643.33 170.06
diseases
Local injuries 49 36 163.33 120.00
Infectious fevers Nil 3 10.00
All other causes 23 7 76.66 23.30

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