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The Jail

Table Nr 5 ... The daily average number of prisoners

in

Victoria Jail in 1852, the rate sickness and mortality.

of

Average

of Deaths Deaths to

Proportion of strength.

6.87 p.b.

Cams of sickness. Total Strength. Europeand bolt person Lickness-

160

154 109

263

The

-mortality in the Jail has been

confined exclusively to the Malay and Chinee

races.

in

The greatest number of deaths occurred

was the

in July and September . Dysentery principal cause. The prevalence of this disease in the Jail during the last year has been very great, both in the European and native races. Chinese criminals are from a class of persons much addicted to Opium-smoking), and it often. happens that the sudden withdrawal of this narcotie, which imprisonment, necessarily entails, produces that state of mental dejection which favors the invasion

-invasion of Dysentery.

I have therefore found that the worst cases

of Dycentury

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have occurred in the most. inveterate smokers

of

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Opium. In searly every fatal instance the patients have bain transports, whose punishment

anxiously

has prostrated their minds. I have

inquired into

• every physical circumstance operating

of the

on the prisoner, to discover the caved

The site of the Jail is

prevalence of Dysentery

unexceptionable ; _ the most precize cleanliness

pervades it ; - it is

throughout.

well ventilated;-

the comfort of the prisoner is onost carefully

-

attended to ; – his diet is sufficient; - and the

• provisions are of fair average quality.

only

causes

Sameness

I suspect

of the food

are

The

the invariable

and the evaporation

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from the saturated floors after washing. The floors of the rooms appropriated to the Infirmary should be painted.

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