There were two other establishments for the reception of the sick and wounded on this station, but they were only temporary. These were at St. Lucia and St. Christopher’s, where the men being received in great numbers at a time from large fleets, and as there were accommodations only for the most urgent cases, the mortality approached more nearly to that of Barbadoes. There died at St. Christopher’s, in the years 1780 and 1781, in the proportion of one in six, and at St. Lucia, in the same time, one in five and a half, or two in eleven. The air of the hospital at St. Lucia was remarkably pure, and this degree of mortality was owing to the sick having been accommodated in tents and huts. In the two last years of the war, when an hospital was built, and regularly established, the mortality was not much above one half of this. Some authors have endeavoured to form an estimate of the success of practice from the different rates of mortality; but this is extremely fallacious; for the fatality of diseases will depend on their violence, the proportion of deaths being very different in cases that are slight, from what it is in those that are dangerous. We shall take a view, however, of the hospital at Barbadoes at another period, in which there seemed little or no difference in the violence of the disease, and when the superior success seemed to be owing to the hospital’s not being so crowded, and to the better attendance and treatment of the sick. The following is a view of the diseases that were admitted in the last three months of the year 1782, the greater part of which were landed from the reinforcement of eight ships of the line that joined the fleet at Barbadoes in the beginning of December: +--------------------+-----------+-------+----------------+ | DISEASES. | Admitted. | Died. | Proportion. | +--------------------+-----------+-------+----------------+ | Fevers | 224 | 29 | { 8 | | | | | NEARLY { | | Fluxes | 17 | 6 | { 3 | | | | | | | Scurvy | 50 | 5 | { 10 | | | | | ONE IN { | | Ulcers | 25 | 10 | { 2½ | | | | | | | Other Complaints | 46 | 8 | { 6 | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-NEARLY-{-------+ | Total | 362 | 58 | { 6 | +--------------------+-----------+-------+----------------+