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Show AUSTRALIAN WAR LOSS 53,850 Mortality Among Soldiers In Europe During War Placed at 7.75 Per Cent a Year. Sydney, N. S. W The rate of mortality mor-tality among soldiers absent from Australia Aus-tralia during the World war was approximately ap-proximately 7 per cent per annum, as compared with approximately per cent per annum for a body of men of similar age under normal Australian conditions, according to the report just Issued by the commonwealth statistician. statis-tician. In the calculations all deaths abroad were taken Into consideration except those after discharge from the service. The total deaths abroad were 58,850. In the South African campaign of 1899-1902, the mortality rate for all British troops was 3S.7 a thousand a year, or less than 4 per cent year, while in the Crimean war of 1854-55 the mortality among British forces was 13 per cent per annum, the statistician's1 stat-istician's1 report said. |