+------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber’s keys: | | A Proportion of Sick and | | Wounded on board on | | the First of the Month. | | | | B Proportion of Sick and | | Wounded sent to the | | Hospital in the Course | | of the Month. | | | | C Proportion of Deaths | | on board in the Course | | of the Month. | +-----------------+-----------+----------+-------------+ | Months. | A | B | C | +-----------------+-----------+----------+-------------+ | | ONE IN | ONE IN | ONE IN | +-----------------+-----------+----------+-------------+ | May, 1780 | 18½ | 20½ | 87 | | June | 13 | 68½ | 418 | | July | 17½ | 80 | 163 | | August | 18 | 227 | 80 | | September | 9 | 6 | 188 | | October | 14 | 25 | 0 | | November | 33½ | 192 | 265 | | December | 16 | 67 | 185 | | January, 1781 | 14 | 60½ | 316 | | February | 18 | 413 | 214 | | March | 15½ | 30 | 201 | | April | 11 | 59 | 169 | | May | 9½ | 17 | 188 | | June | 12 | 40 | 701 | +-----------------+-----------+----------+-------------+ | Mean Proportion | 15½ | 93 | 227 | +-----------------+-----------+----------+-------------+ CHAP. II. Account of the HEALTH of the FLEET from August, 1780, till December following.----The Fleet divided--The principal Squadron goes to North America--Fluctuation between Fevers and Fluxes--The Alcide and Torbay the most sickly Ships--Health mended by the Climate and Diet in North America--Hurricane in the West Indies--Sufferings in consequence of it--Fevers the chief Disease. The hurricane months approaching, the season for active operations in the West Indies was now over. The whole force of the enemy, consisting of thirty-fix French and Spanish ships of the line, having gone to St. Domingo in the end of July, ten sail of the line were detached after them from our station, for the protection of Jamaica. The Admiral sailed for North America in August, with eleven ships of the line, leaving six for the protection of the islands.