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Table. 195. The daily averagenumber of Prisoners in Victoria Jail in 1851, the number
of cases of chickness and Deaths, te
leverage dtrength. Fefenses of licknies Deaths. Proportion of
179.
143.
Formerly the
averages
6.14.
exhibited
above were struck against the whole number of prisoners in the Jail during the
year,
mi.
which in 185/ appears to have been 2,142. There seems an error in excess on both sides-
-time of the cleven deaths were from Gysentery, aggravated by Phagedenie silcers, the long habit of trium moking, and mental dejection. It is curious that while the native inmates/the Chinese and [ Indians) were four trimes sin excess of the Europeans- the latter composed
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one half the number of cares of sickness, and the former yielded four times the umber of deaths in excess. It appears unfair to resume that the daily_ Average number of persons constitutes the fixed population of a Community so changeable as that of a dail», and to charge that number with the deaths which the whole have contributed to
Table 106. The extentionch proportion of
sickness and deaths amongst all": employed by Government empting Primers
Total Number Total Numbe
Phofuntion oftende
Designation of Persons of Sink. Deaths. to Strength
Civil Officers of Government
Police
52 216 186
16
2.
11.
13 6.44p.c.
Total 268 202
The deaths referred to occurring in the "livil officers of bovernment “rinclude