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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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