ABSTRACT
The mortality in our Indian army was, as might have been expected, one of the social subjects discussed at the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle; and it is evident that some recent disclosures about existing disease in our army and navy generally were in the minds of the speakers. There was some controversy as to the comparative effects of climate and of vice; and one speaker, who had probably been reading the impressive evidence of Sir John Lawrence in the Indian sanitary returns, urged a relaxation of the restrictions on marriage in the army, as the natural and only effectual check on the vice and consequent disease which are sapping the strength of our armies, destroying the lives of thousands of the men picked for the national defence, and dooming future generations to a life of disease and infirmity.
