+-----------------------------------------+ | Transcriber’s Keys: | | | | A Proportion of those taken ill in the | | Course of this Month. | | | | B Proportion of those who died, in | | relation to the Numbers of the Sick.| +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | | A | B | | DISEASES. | | | | | ONE IN | ONE IN | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | Fevers | 20 | 64 | | | | | | Fluxes | 35 | 71 | | | | | | Scurvy | 126 | 0 | | | | | | Other Complaints | 33 | 108 | +-----------------------|--------+--------+ | General Proportion | 9 | 76 | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ The first column is formed by dividing the whole number on board by the number taken ill. The second column is formed by first adding the number ill on board on the first of the month to the number taken ill during the month, subtracting from this sum the number sent to the hospital, and dividing the remainder by the number of deaths. The number on the sick list of twenty-eight ships of the line, and two frigates, on the first of this month, was eight hundred and forty-five; the number put on the lists in the course of the month was one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four; and the number sent to the hospital in the same time was three hundred and seventy-three; and there died on board thirty-one. The total mortality this month, in relation to the whole number of men on board, was one in six hundred and seven. It almost always happens, that ships of war are more or less short of complement, and allowance is made for this in all the calculations; for having had an opportunity of inspecting the weekly accounts delivered to the Admiral, it was always in my power to be informed how many there were short of the legal complement of men in each ship.