COLOURED TROOPS. 1863–4 45,174 1,251 60 2,003 7 760 568 699 1864–5 89,143 1,680 41 3,235 10 775 334 782 1865–6 56,617 650 7 1,526 13 806 29 442 ——————— —————— ——— —————— ——— ————— ————— ————— Annual 63,645 Totals 108 6,764 30 2,341 931 1,923 Average 3,581 In the prisons the mortality on both sides was terrible. Regarding the conditions among the Confederate prisoners that were interned in the Northern States we are informed by the following table. The average number of men in the prisons was 40,815, and of this number 19,060, all told, died; taking the entire war into account, this gives a mortality of 230.7 per 1,000 per annum.[222] The figures are divided among the various diseases as follows: _Deaths (all _Annual rate per told)._ 1,000._ Typhoid Fever, Typhus Fever 1,109 13·6 Malaria 1,026 12·6 Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, 3,453 42·3 Erysipelas Diarrhoea, Dysentery 5,965 73·0 Scurvy 351 4·3 Bronchitis 133 1·6 Inflammation of the Lungs and 5,042 61·7 Pleurisy Other diseases 1,729 21·3 Wounds and uncertain maladies 252 0·3 —————— ————— Total 19,060 230·7 The conditions among the Northern prisoners confined in the Southern prisons were still worse. In the Andersonville prison, where in the six months between March 1 and August 31, 1864, an average of 19,453 prisoners were confined, 7,712 died; this means an annual rate of 792.8 per 1,000 men. The following table indicates the proportional mortality of the individual diseases:[223]