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279. All prisoners admitted during the year were inoculated against cholera and 12,378 were vaccinated against smallpox. Prisoners who showed signs of recent vaccination on admission and had only short sentences to serve were not vaccinated on admission.
280. The causes of death among male prisoners are shown in the subjoined table.
281. A disquieting feature associated with the Hong Kong Prison lies in the fact that, whilst cell accommodation was only 1,612 almost twice this number of prisoners had to be incarcerated at one time. With tuberculosis such a serious problem in these territories, this is a regrettable state of affairs. Government is fully alive to the situation and schemes are under consideration for the construction of detention camps in the New Territories, where short sentence prisoners (most of whom are the victims of economic conditions, as, for example, unlicensed hawkers and wood stealers) will be housed and given useful occupation.
No. of cases Chronic nephritis 1 Fibro-sarcoma of lung 1 Chronic pulmonary tuberculosis 17 Acute encephalitis ** Strangulated hernia 1 Acute pulmonary tuberculosis 1 Tubercular enteritis 3 Generalized pulmonary tuberculosis 6 Bacillary dysentery 7 Septicaemia 2 Cerebral haemorrhage 2 ... Meningitis (pneumococcal) 4 Bronchiectasis 1 Myocarditis 1 Fatty degeneration of heart 8 Pulmonary infarction 1 Apical pneumonia 1 Lobar pneumonia 3 Chronic appendicitis ... Cirrhosis of liver 1 Acute nephritis 2 Senility 1 Acute cardiac failure 2 Carcinoma ... "Myelitis of the cord" 1 Secondary anaemia 1 73