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12.
of branding prisoners on deportation and flogging them when
› cunning, up to
bay
the umbers went
an a
average of 50c.
Resorted to as is
the worst
Angring
of Characters
from Caston and the main it is greatly to be regretted that Precautions so salutary
and deterrent cannot -permanently adopted.
be
in
It is satisfactory to note that notwithstanding that the Prison. wurds have been thronged excess of 1869, there has been but little sickness, whilst the mortality
25 per cent less.
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Hospitals 10 The Colonial Surgeon
has
again drawn attention to the unfitness of the Civil Arspital for the purpose to which it being devoted, as well in respect to size as to construction
As
1996 cases, he observes,
have been treated in a structure, which is neither large enough
for.
f
nor adapted to the treatment
third of that mumber,
and under such circumstances
it seems
time should be lost in the
that
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further
hospital .
erection of
A
new
I urge it now, especially in
consequence of the approaching
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