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" disease. The admissions to Hospital from the Police are more than
"one third of the total admissions
!to Hospital in 1883!
3.
It is satisfactory,
however, to observe that the
admissions to Hospital in 1883 show a favourable rate of sickness as compared with those in 1882, the increase in the number of m admissions being 50 while the __ increase in the number of the Force was 70. This improvement was altogether among the Indian
and
and Chinese Constables; the rate of
sickness
among the Europeans
showing a slight increase.
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Dr Ayres does not ...
condition of affairs
to
any
attribute this unsatisfactory
deterioration in the physique of the
men sent out from England to the Police; but to a supposed
join
increase in the number of hours
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or duty, especially night duty, and to the defective sanitary condition of several of the Volice Stations.
On the receipt of Dr
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etyres