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SCIENCE
Chemistry and the Biological Sciences have contributed more than their full share, and though I cannot claim to speak with first hand knowledge of the achievements of medical science, I must mention some facts for which I am indebted to the kindness of Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh and Colonel Webb, who informs me that the annual admission ratio for all causes other than wounds in action in France is approximately 428 per 1000. In the following campaigns the corresponding ratios were:
| South Africa | ... | 843 |
| Nile, 1884–5 | ... | 557 |
| Egypt, 1882 | ... | 2276 |
| China, 1900–1 | ... | 933 |
| Nile, 1898 | ... | 955 |
| Dongola, 1896 | ... | 892 |
In France the annual admission ratio for typhoid fever is 0.9 per 1000, and for the whole typhoid group of diseases 2.4 per 1000.
