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to work or because they cannot get employment. During the whole of
this time, not a single European nor any female prisoner had died,
and the mortality amongst the Chinese male prisoners bas been very
small.
I beg His Excellency's permission to quote a few lines
from Dr. Ayres Annual Report for 1881.. Speaking of the Gaol, Dr.
Ayres wrote:- "Dr. Marques is to be congratulated on being able to
"give such a good report of the health of the prisoners in spite of
"the overcrowding.”
In his Annual Report for 1893, referring to prisoners in
the Gaol, Dr. Ayres stated: "There were only two deaths from
"disease amongst the 4,010. One man banged himself in his cell
and one man was hanged by order of the Supreme Court making a total
"of four deaths in all or less than 1 for every 2000 prisoners."
"Very few Gaols can beat that in any country and accord-'
*ing to the report of Dr. Marques, the Medical Officer, some of the "prisoners were kept alive by being in Gaol, the two that died were "only sent in for one week's inprisonment. One died from Phthisis *and the other from Dedema of the lungs coupled with General Debili-
"ty so that they were almost moribund when sent into Gaol."
My superiors have always spoken well of me, as shown in
the various extracts from their public Reports. No reflections
have to my knowledge ever been made on my abilities and competency,
until the Report of the Medical Committee and the publicity given to
it by the newspapers of the Colony.
14. My professional studies were made in Dublin, where I went
through the regular course. I frequented chiefly the School of
Medicine of the Catholic University. I beg to enclose copies of
unsolicited testimonials given me by two exinent physicians of that City, Dr. Christopher J.Nixon and Dr. Samuel Robert Mason (Docu-
ments and G).