After collecting the returns for each month, I made abstracts of them in tables; in one column of which the complement of each ship is set down, in order to form calculations of the comparative prevalence and mortality of different diseases at different times. One of the abstracts is here inserted, (Table I.) by way of specimen, and the proportional result of them for fourteen months is set down in another table, (Table II.) Though this last exhibits a tolerably just view, yet it may be remarked, as one imperfection, that there was no distinction made at this time in my returns between the killed and those who died of disease; so that in the month of May, which stands first, the proportion is too high; for there were sixty-four killed, and two hundred wounded, in the two actions of that month. TABLE I. +--------------------------------------------+ | ABSTRACT OF RETURNS, | | 1ST JUNE, 1781. | +--------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber’s keys: | | | | A Complement. | | B Sick and Wounded on Board. | | C Sent to the Hospital in the | | course of last Month. | | D Dead on Board in the course | | of last Month. | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | SHIPS’ | A | B | C | D | | NAMES. | | | | | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Sandwich | 732 | 28 | 36 | 2 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Barfleur | 767 | 133 | 22 | 1 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Gibraltar | 650 | 67 | 88 | 10 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Triumph | 650 | 7 | 9 | 2 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Centaur | 650 | 45 | 26 5 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Torbay | 600 31 | 57 | 5 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Monarch | 600 | 62 | 14 | 2 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Terrible | 600 | 85 | 24 | 1 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Alfred | 600 | 57 | 38 | 1 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Russel | 600 | 44 | 134 | 7 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Alcide | 600 | 42 | 35 | 1 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Shrewsbury | 600 | 30 | 23 | 5 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Invincible | 600 | 50 | 63 | 9 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Resolution | 600 | 107 | 54 | 3 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+