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European officers, 200 soldiers, with 300 Sepoys, and several thousand camp followers died, and it was calculated what with deaths and the desertions caused by dread of the epidemic, [[addition]] [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[/addition]] the numbers in the service of the Governor General decreased by some 20,000. An outbreak of the epidemic in Calcutta, during the early autumn had been quickly suppressed; there were plenty of [[deletion]] d [[/deletion]] doctors and magistrates to deal with the situation, but in a camp it was [[deletion]] very [[/deletion]] different; in Indian armies an average of from eight to ten men accompanied each fighting man ^ [[addition]] and [[/addition]] many of the latter, being seized on the march, died in a few minutes. As there were far too few doctors to deal with the [[deletion]] situation [[/deletion]] [[addition]] [[unclear]] [[/addition]] all the ^ [[addition]] English [[/addition]] officers became practitioners; ^ [[addition]] and [[/addition]] little bottles of laudanum and calomel, the two stock remedies, were always available [[deletion]] and [[/deletion]] of Colonel FitzClarence's [[addition]] twenty-nine patients [[/addition]] patients, twenty-three recovered; he had never quitted them until he [[deletion]] was [[/deletion]] [[addition]] had been [[/addition]] attacked himself. What [[addition]] had [[/addition]] struck him was the apathy of the natives; [[addition]] while [[/addition]] the gratitude of two or three was most touching, the rest seemed to be without feelings. Two Bramins died owing to their high caste; they said that they could only accept food from one another, but Colonel FitzClarence had no difficulty in this respect. Early in the campaign the Governor General decided to send [[addition]] home [[/addition]] [[deletion]] back [[/deletion]] two of his aide-de-camps with dispatches, his head aide -decamp was to go by sea, Colonel FitzClarence by land.