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176.

prompt recort to general sanatry "checked the

earat

Aucasures

of this discose in a surt

marked and satisfactny

manner

I would call attention to a circumstance in connegion with the fail which has hitherto Ieen harmless, but may hereafter be attended with unsheatable disaster. I allude to the practice of barying criminals who have suffered death, within the limits of the prison walls. In the small yard there abcary no dese than 21 underneath its soil. The curious

bodies

lying

years ago,

two Sailors,

facts collected by Mr.Walker relating to churchyards in London, afford a host of anclancholy instances of the dienctions effects Many fopening graves.

burying a comrade in Whampon, who had died of dysentery, struck into an old coffin the effluvium which issued forth immediately "prostrated them, and produced symptoms of

resumed the pated fever, this characteristics of plaque, of which they died in

very

Lon

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- few days. An accident of this kind in the Victoria Jail might almost depopulate it. The

practice of intra-mural interment should be discontinued.

Table P6. Showing the unsuber and propation of sickness and death to all these comployed

Periquation

by Government in 1950. (ormitting Prisoners.)

Sieh

Total

Fital

Total

Proportion

beaths ti

# #

Perim.

deaths

Strength

97

39

164 255

6

Total

261 294

93.447.C.

Civil Pfficers of Government Police

The nature of the sickness amonget. th. Officers

of Fremment has already been alluded to.

Table 17. Showing the average rate of sickiire for the last three years amongst persons employed by Governments (mitting the Priemers)

Average number of | „Arrage umanter of

perame complexid

LEE ANSIAMING..

cus of sichnes

310.

250

deaths

Air disemeat.

18

Reportion of

Jie kucu

Strength

Proportio of Deaths

"to strength

for anus.

80.64 4.c. 5.0f.e.

If the casualties which recurred in the Police by the swamping of the Gaw-boat in the

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