Table, shewing the Prevalence of Sickness and Mortality in November.
Transcriber’s Keys:
A Proportion of those taken ill in the Course of the Month.
B Proportion of Deaths, in relation to the Numbers of the Sick.
| DISEASES. | A | B |
|---|---|---|
| ONE IN | ||
| Fevers | 54 | 25 |
| Fluxes | 78 | 132 |
| Scurvy | 86 | 0 |
| Ulcers | 94 | 0 |
| Other Complaints | 46 | 103 |
| General Proportion | 15 | 77 |
About a sixth part of the whole sick were sent to the hospital this month, and one half of these were sent to the hospital at Halifax from the Magnificent.
The proportion of deaths this month, in relation to the whole number on board, was one in eight hundred and eighty-seven.
Fewer were taken ill this month than the preceding, but more in proportion died; which might partly be owing to the fleet having been more at sea, and partly to the change of climate.
Fevers were now more numerous, and also more fatal than any other disease; and we see them follow the contrary proportion to fluxes in the progress to the southward, that they did in our progress to the northward. These fevers prevailed chiefly in the Formidable and Warrior. In the former it first appeared among some men that had been pressed at New York from a privateer, some of whom were seized a few days after our arrival at Barbadoes with the yellow fever, and they were the only instances of it at this time in the fleet.
The scurvy continued to diminish, but the ulcers increased as we came into the torrid zone.
Diseases in general were so slight and so few at this time, that the whole squadron from America sent only forty-eight men to the hospital at Barbadoes from its arrival to the end of the month.
It may be proper here to give an account of some of the ships that remained on this station, while the main body of the fleet was in America.