The discussion by Mr.
Belloc of the war wastage sui ed by Germany makes very interest. ing reading. We have been given many estimates of the number of enemy effectives at present available, but these were principally of the nature of subtraction sums, the number of casualties to date being deducted from the enemy's total forces at the beginning of the plus the number who have since qualified for service. Such calculations are apt to be misleading, because the number of casualties recorded is no criterion of those permanently rendered hors de combat. For instance the mortality rate among the wounded soldiers at the London Hospital has only been slightly over one per cent.: to be exact there were forty-five deaths among 3,938 cases. Obviously, these figures do not represent the normal percentage of complete recoveries, and in dealing with any large number of wounded men allow ance has to be made for the percentage discharged as cured, but who through the loss of a limb,
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