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CASUALTY RATIO IN WAR People are often astonished to see a man with two or three gold stripes on his sleeve but accord ¬ ing to the law of chance the avcVage soldiers pros ¬ pects of being killed are not great The average civilian of course has no excuse whatever for quaking quakingHalf Half the civilians are women and girls They can be wined off the slate Of the men and boys we may wipe out another big section as not being of military age and another big section as not being physically fit and still anoother as being ex ¬ empted on occupational or private grounds If you are actually in khaki taking the mean average again the odds against your being a casualty in any particular year might be reckoned roughly at about six to one But suppose you be ¬ come a casualty The odds are still about six to OUR against your being killed outright while the following figures show your chances if you are wounded Ninety per cent of the men who reach an advanced hospital recover 95 per cent recover of those who pass into casualty clearing station and only two men in every hundred die at a base hos ¬ pital Answers
