North-China
Campaign.
China-Japan
War.
Percentage of deaths5.18.1
Number of sick to each wounded man5.54.1
Number of deaths from sickness to each death from wounds2.39.7
Percentage of deaths among wounded men3.23.9
Percentage of deaths among diseased men4.28.4

Return of the Hiroshima Reserve Hospital

North-China
Campaign.
Percentage of deaths among wounded men2.1
Percentage of deaths among sick men3.3

Comparative Figures (General)

Total percentage of deaths among wounded men:

Satsuma Rebellion17.0
China-Japan War9.7
North-China Campaign4.6

Comparative Figures Showing the Percentage of Sick during the Occupation of Peking in the Winter

Russian troops8.75 (typhoid, dysentery, syphilis).
French troops5.42 (typhoid, syphilis).
German troops5.33 (typhoid, syphilis, dysentery).
British troops5.22 (sunstroke, diarrhœa, dysentery, and typhoid).
American troops4.18 (dysentery, sunstroke, and syphilis).
Japanese troops2.51 (kakke and typhoid).

Statistics of Russo-Japanese War.[219]

(Feb., 1904—May, 1905.)