=============================================+=============+============ | NORTH-CHINA | CHINA-JAPAN | CAMPAIGN. | WAR. ---------------------------------------------+-------------+------------ Percentage of deaths | 5.1 | 8.1 Number of sick to each wounded man | 5.5 | 4.1 Number of deaths from sickness to each death | | from wounds | 2.3 | 9.7 Percentage of deaths among wounded men | 3.2 | 3.9 Percentage of deaths among diseased men | 4.2 | 8.4 =============================================+=============+============ _Return of the Hiroshima Reserve Hospital_ NORTH-CHINA CAMPAIGN. Percentage of deaths among wounded men 2.1 Percentage of deaths among sick men 3.3 _Comparative Figures (General)_ Total percentage of deaths among wounded men: Satsuma Rebellion 17.0 China-Japan War 9.7 North-China Campaign 4.6 _Comparative Figures Showing the Percentage of Sick during the Occupation of Peking in the Winter_ Russian troops 8.75 (typhoid, dysentery, syphilis). French troops 5.42 (typhoid, syphilis). German troops 5.33 (typhoid, syphilis, dysentery). British troops 5.22 (sunstroke, diarrhœa, dysentery, and typhoid). American troops 4.18 (dysentery, sunstroke, and syphilis). Japanese troops 2.51 (kakke and typhoid). STATISTICS OF RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.[219] (Feb., 1904—May, 1905.) Killed on field 43,892 Wounded with colors 145,527 Died of those wounds 9,054 Sick, including wounds, accidents, etc., not received on firing-line 162,556 Died of sickness and disease 7,433 Contagious diseases 10,565 Died of contagious diseases 4,557 Killed and died from wounds 52,946 Died from all diseases 11,992 JAPANESE NAVAL INCREMENT[220] Writing about naval increment, the “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” notes the increase of the Japanese Navy during recent years as follows:— TOTAL TONNAGE. 1897 100,000 1898 134,000 1899 154,000 1900 204,000 1901 232,000