Having given instances of the common rate of mortality in hospitals in Europe and the West Indies, I shall next give examples of the success we had in North America, when the fleet was there in the autumns of 1780 and 1782. ACCOUNT of the Sick landed at New York from the West-India Fleet, consisting of eleven Ships of the Line, in Autumn, 1780. +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | DISEASES. | Admitted. | Died. | Proportion. | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | | | | NEARLY | | | | | ONE IN | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | Fevers | 34 | 9 | 4 | | Fluxes | 229 | 27 | 9 | | Scurvy | 433 | 40 | 11 | | Ulcers | 47 | 8 | 6 | | Other Complaints | 82 | 10 | 8 | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | Total | 825 | 94 | 9 | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ ACCOUNT of the Sick landed at New York from the West-India Fleet, consisting of twenty-six Ships of the Line, in Autumn, 1782. +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | DISEASES. | Admitted. | Died. | Proportion. | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | | | | NEARLY | | | | | ONE IN | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | Fevers | 104 | 14 | 7 | | Fluxes | 131 | 14 | 9 | | Scurvy | 617 | 30 | 20 | | Ulcers | 74 | 10 | 7 | | Other Complaints | 70 | 4 | 17 | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+ | Total | 996 | 72 | 14 | +--------------------+-----------+-------+-------------+