26│ 147│ 260│ 50│ 190│ 338│ 424 27│ 85│ 258│ 60│ 142│ 267│ 379 28│ 98│ 229│ 49│ 104│ 188│ 301 ──────┼───────┼────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼───────────── │ 8068│ 4821│ 1042│ 2923│ 5623│ 6982 ──────┴───────┴────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴───────────── Scurvy broke out, but did not become at all widespread; sporadic cases of the disease were observed among the civil inhabitants, while in the prisons and hospitals it was somewhat more prevalent. Delpech[349] attributes the appearance of the disease to the lack of fresh vegetables, which were very expensive and could not be given out in the public establishments. Among the soldiers the disease broke out only in Fort Bicêtre, the garrison in which consisted of 800 marines, of whom some seventy or seventy-five contracted it. None of them were given any salted meat, and Grenet[350] contends that the outbreak was caused by the lack of light and air in the small casemates, and by arduous service, especially in the night. But here, too, the real cause was probably to be found in the lack of fresh vegetables, which Grenet does not mention. The death-rate in Paris during the siege was about three times as high as normal. Sueur has estimated that in the years 1867–9 the mortality in the twenty-eight weeks corresponding with those in the above table was 13·1 per 1,000 inhabitants, whereas in the twenty-eight weeks of the siege the mortality was 38·6 per 1,000. 6. THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (1904)