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OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Hospital. The result of treatment has been eminently successful during the year, and the Tables are exceedingly satisfactory in consequence.
III.-THE GAOL.
Table VII. shows the number of admissions into the Gaol Hospital, and the deaths there, during the year 1870.
Table VIII. shows the rate of sickness and mortality in the Gaol Hospital, as compared with the total number of prisoners, and with the number treated during the year 1870. By this Table it will be seen that the total number of prisoners is greater than in 1869, that the rate of sickness was also greater, but the rate of mortality 25 per cent. less than in the previous year—less in absolute number than I have recorded since 1859, when there was a total of 2,484 prisoners, a daily average of 239, and 4 deaths.
The numbers imprisoned in Victoria Gaol during the past year were—
Europeans 1,099
Indians 155
Chinese 3,051
Total—4,305
The daily average was 482, of which number only 4 died. In 1869 the daily average was 465, the total number during the year 4,122, and the deaths 5.
It will be seen that the increase in the number of prisoners is entirely among Europeans, for refusal of duty and similar cases, and that the number of Chinese and coloured prisoners is even less than in 1869.
In 1869 the greatest number any one day in gaol was on the 10th February, when there were—
Europeans 85
Indians 18
Chinese 461
Total 564
The smallest number in prison was on the 3rd December, when there were—
Europeans 70
Indians 18
Chinese 304
Total 392
During the past year both the maximum and minimum number of prisoners have been in excess of the previous year. Thus the