| 10.83| 23.75 | 9.60 |
| | | | | | |
| Number of missing | 807 | -- | 4,009| -- | 132 |
| Percentage | 2.19 | -- | 0.45| -- | .83 |
+-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+
| Total killed, | | | | | |
| wounded, and missing | 8,458 | 14,849 | 117,768| 104,050 | 1,959 |
| Percentage | 23.31 | 15.17 | 13.26| 34.68 | 12.43 |
+-----------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+----------+

The proportion of men killed to those wounded was as follows: killed
315, wounded 1,512, or 1 to 4.8. If we add to the men killed on the
field of battle the 49 dying in the next 48 hours, the proportion of
fatalities is increased to 1 to 4.15. The higher of these proportions is
certainly the surgically correct one.

With regard to the general accuracy of the numbers given above, a
comparison of those published for the campaign up to September 15, 1900,
is of value, as the two series substantially tally. Thus, up to that
date, 17,072 men were hit, and of these 2,998 were killed. The
proportion killed to wounded was therefore 1 to 4.69.

If it be borne in mind that of the wounded men included in Table I., 1.5
per cent. died later in the Base hospitals, the percentages are almost
identical.

Table III. is inserted with a view to instituting a comparison between
the number of casualties in the present and earlier campaigns.

For the purposes of this table it is necessary to take the approximate
number of men at Lord Methuen's disposal, irrespective of their active
participation in the fighting.

The result of this addition to the total is to show that the percentage
of men killed and wounded was slightly lower than in the Crimean war,
and nearly corresponded with that observed in the Franco-German
campaign.

As it has been shown that our numbers correspond in general with those
of the whole war up to September 15, 1900, there can be little doubt
that the same ratios will be maintained to the close of the campaign.

On the face of the numbers, therefore, there is little ground for
assuming that the change in the nature of the weapons has materially
influenced the deadliness of warfare at all. This is capable of
explanation on the ground that in the Crimea the battles were fought at
much