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eached the enormous amount of 128 per thousand. This was attributed to the marshy location of the military posts and to the rations of salt pork and rum, but with a removal of the cause, it was reduced to thirty-two per thousand. At Ceylon, the mortality has decreased from 47 per thousand to 38 per thousand; at St. Helena from 24 to 12; at the Jamaica Islands from 27 to 17; at Newfoundland 37 to 11 per thousand. The Indian Empire is the only exception, though even there, there has been in Bombay a slight decrease, and in Madras the deaths have fallen from 75 to 41 per thousand. To those who have looked with deep despondency as well as grief upon the sufferings of our own soldiers by sickness during the past season, we commend the following splendid testimony to the value of sanitary science from Florence Nightingale, as holding out the hope, that by the conscientious and intelligent use of the same means our Southern army may shake off altogether the fetters of disease: "The b