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Rh ratio of 230 per thousand, and so forth. The following tables, extracted from the official Report on Sanitary Measures in India in 1892-93, exhibits the difference between European and native troops in relation to the sum-total of the diseases prevalent in India. In contrasting the two races it should, however, be borne in mind, that while the whites on the one hand, since they are mostly unmarried, suffer more from the venereal diseases than the natives, whereby their sick and deathrates are unduly raised, the natives, on the other hand, are more exposed to infection by the other diseases. It should be noted also, that many of the whites who were invalided home would have died had they remained in India, and therefore that the total death-rate of the Europeans should be calculated rather on the basis of "total loss" than of "deaths" when comparing it with the "mortality, including absent deaths," of the natives.