40
41
327
in reference to the fatal cases which have vecurred, Tmy will be found tabulated in Table VIII. It is true that some of the
long term European prisoners shewed a teridency to anaemia and great prostration, of which the seventh case in the table of Deaths was one but inere was here something more - the mind
on the muris
a
acing strongly constitution and converting simple bitious attuck into gastritis and ultimately futul fever.
But notwithstanding this,
there have seldom been more
since the
than two at the same time in the
Hospital for Europeans rute of my taking charge, more than ten or twelve Chinese .
How far
nov
any men condemned
to long imprisonment, can underge
the whole term of their sentence
is a question
in Victoria Gaol, is
of the greatest importance - Past experience has shown the
impracticability of enforcing, without rish to life, lengthened imprisonment in the case of
Europeans, and His Excellency The Governor has on these grounds
more than once seen fit to extind his clemency to prisoners.