HC Deb 02 August 1860 vol 160 cc482-3
MR. FREELAND

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the Death Rates in the different Regiments of the Army and the Causes of Death could not in future be given in the Registrar General's Quarterly Reports?

MR. SIDNEY HERBERT

said, that the death rates of the array would now be put into an annual Report, which he intended to lay upon the table of the House. The Report would soon be ready. He attached great value to the publicity of these rates, believing that they would have the effect of keeping the different bodies up to their duty. It would be in the power of the Registrar General to adopt those death rates, and to consolidate them in his General Quarterly Reports.