Sir  A. Tulioch  says,  that  "  the  total  Iom  from  all  causes  has  been  at  least
seventy  per  thousand ;"  and  that  **  the  proportion  Invalided  annually  may  be
taken  at  about  twenty-five  per  thousand  more,  and  twenty -five  per  thousand
to  men  not  renewing  their  engagements;*'  making  altogether  twelve  per
cent,  or  one  hundred  and  twenty  per  thousand. He  further  observes,  that
the  number  of  recruits  raised  during  peace,  from  184<5  to  184^  inclusive,
was  less  than  twelve  thousand ;  and  that,  with  a  force  of  eighty  thousand  in
India,  we  shall  require  nine  thousand  and  six  hundred  of  them  for  India,
^  unless/'  as  he  observes,  *'  means  can  be  adopted  to  reduce  mortality  and
invaliding."

Mr. Jeffreys  says,  the  mortality  of  troops  in  India  amounts  to  ten  per
cent  He  observes,  '*  The  casualties  amongst  the  troops  have,  during  peace^
amounted  per  annum  to  at  least  one  thousand  in  every  ten  thousand ;  in
England  and  her  healthy  colonies  they  have  ranged  from  about  ninety  to  a
little  above  two  hundred."  Such  being  the  undisputed  fact,  there  is  no
doubt,  as  Sir  A. Tulioch  'has  observed,  that  "  the  selection  of  healthier
stations  for  our  troops  than  those  they  have  hitherto  occupied  is  no  longer
a  matter  of  choice,  but  one  of  necessity,  as  we  cannot  hope  to  keep  up  the
large  European  army  required  to  hold  India  without  the  strictest  attention
to  this  important  measure."  The  late  Sir  H. Lawrence  devoted  much  of
his  life  to  the  solution  of  this  question  in  a  practical  manner. There  is  no
doubt  that  removing  our  military  stations  to  the  hills  is  a  measure  demanding
serious  attention. Sir  Ranald  Martin  is  of  opinion  that,  in  Bengal  and
the  N.W. Provinces,  the  malaria  might  be  escaped  by  an  elevation  of  from
two  thousand  five  hundred  to  four  thousand  feet  That  this  would  be  ad*
vantageous  is  quite  probable ;  but  we  shall  not  find  in  the  hills  the  eame
climate  we  have  in  this  country. We  may  escape  the  influence  of  malaria-
diseases,  just  as  we  escape  the  yellow  fever  in  the  West  Indies,  at  an  eleva*
tion  of  from  two  to  three  thousand  feet. 