A Letter to the Right Honourable, the Secretary at War, on Sickness and Mortality in the West Indies
Andrew Halliday
Broschiertes Buch

A Letter to the Right Honourable, the Secretary at War, on Sickness and Mortality in the West Indies

Being a Review of Captain Tulloch S Statistica

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Sir Andrew Halliday (1782-1839) served as a surgeon in the Peninsular War, and then as a royal physician. In 1832 he was appointed Inspector of Hospitals in the West Indies until ill-health forced his return to Scotland. This 1839 pamphlet contains his recommendations to the Secretary of War, concerning the major losses suffered by the army in the West Indies due to illness. It was written in response to the Tulloch report presented to Parliament on the subject the previous year. This showed that the average death rate for soldiers there was almost six times higher than those in Britain, and i...