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Table N.4. Showing the number of Policemen, then
The Siek
wives and Childrem, siek in 1850,
the deaths, and
and the
to Jiekneu.
furqeaus [hidius and Chica | Children
36
MIL
The
217
Canic
proportion of deaths
lin
aud
Fotel 4
Total
아
Lick
Scaths
༡ 255
b
the f
CUCCAL
Proportion of
deaths to
Jiekuest
2.35 Pc.
of cases of sickness
strength with readily be perecived in the fret that the the
came individuals have represented
at different times different forms of disease,
ripetitions of the
n
same disease.
Table 1.5. Thowing the total number of Prisoners
year
1850
the
in Victoria fail in the immber of cases of sickness and of deaths, and the proportion of sicknen auc
suntality to strength.
Proportion
Frontin
Priemers
Jicknell
Feath
of siek
Mengh
t
of Scathe to Strenght.
992
172
17-33
0.80 f.c.
averages
It must be remarked that the
all
ore struck, in the preceding table, agamit admission into the fail, no matter what
175.
89
might be the tern of confinement. While this method. favours unduly the proportionable rate of mortality and sichnen, I cannot help thinking that deducing averages from the monthly rate of population would be an erron of greater magnitude in the opporite direction.
The death in the mison have reculted. prison
from Apoplexy, Dysentery, Cholera, and Hapital "Gangrene. This latter disease will always
on lese infect om prison,
my
acement
of
Aune
the
senbutie habit of the Chinese, the action of
the
chains on their legs, and their aversion to work, which induces them, by rubbing powdered
their limbs, to produce ulcers,
crockery upon
which have a tendency to rum into Gangrene. has been in sunt instances imported. Dysentery has with its viction. In the latter end of July and the beginning of August, Cholera, verging on the malignant type, appeared in the fail,
cases assumed a decidedly malignant churneter which terminated fatally. A
・few