The Health of the British Army, and the Effects of Recent Sanitary Measure on its Mortality and Sickness

Lost in Transition: Influenza in the British Army in the 1830s and 1840s

“…After the peace of 1815, James McGrigor, the Director General of Hospitals for the British army, adopted the forms and had them printed and distributed for use in overseas regiments. 16 A system of classification of diseases was developed, and surgeons at stations throughout the empire used the system to keep careful track of the diseases within the regiment and the forms were remitted to London accompanied by handwritten reports summarizing the medical transactions of the year. 17 Most of these reports have been lost, but many have survived, as have published reports on their aggregated totals.…”