Surgeon-Major Koike, in a lecture delivered before the Medical Union in the salon of the Musical College in Uyeno, gave some interesting figures relating to the casualties in the North-China campaign as compared with the China-Japan war of 1894-1895. These will be most easily understood by putting them into tabular form.
Total number of patients in the North-China campaign |
22,080 |
Total number of deaths out of the above aggregate |
1,137 |
(This, of course, is exclusive of those killed in the field; it shows only the sick and wounded.)
| North-China Campaign. |
China-Japan War. |
|
|---|---|---|
Percentage of deaths |
5.1 | 8.1 |
Number of sick to each wounded man |
5.5 | 4.1 |
Number of deaths from sickness to each death from wounds |
2.3 | 9.7 |
Percentage of deaths among wounded men |
3.2 | 3.9 |
Percentage of deaths among diseased men |
4.2 | 8.4 |
Return of the Hiroshima Reserve Hospital
| North-China Campaign. |
|
|---|---|
| Percentage of deaths among wounded men | 2.1 |
| Percentage of deaths among sick men | 3.3 |
Comparative Figures (General)
Total percentage of deaths among wounded men:
| Satsuma Rebellion | 17.0 |
| China-Japan War | 9.7 |
| North-China Campaign | 4.6 |
Comparative Figures Showing the Percentage of Sick during the Occupation of Peking in the Winter
| Russian troops | 8.75 (typhoid, dysentery, syphilis). |
| French troops | 5.42 (typhoid, syphilis). |
| German troops | 5.33 (typhoid, syphilis, dysentery). |
| British troops | 5.22 (sunstroke, diarrhœa, dysentery, and typhoid). |
| American troops | 4.18 (dysentery, sunstroke, and syphilis). |
| Japanese troops | 2.51 (kakke and typhoid). |
Statistics of Russo-Japanese War.219
(Feb., 1904—May, 1905.)
Killed on field |
43,892 |
Wounded with colors |
145,527 |
Died of those wounds |
9,054 |
Sick, including wounds, accidents, etc., not received on firing-line |
162,556 |
Died of sickness and disease |
7,433 |
Contagious diseases |
10,565 |
Died of contagious diseases |
4,557 |
Killed and died from wounds |
52,946 |
Died from all diseases |
11,992 |