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and more suitable part of the Jail, is still in existence and causing much annoyance to Prisoners in their cells and to the Turnkeys in their Dwelling- when it is to be removed, it is hard to say- but still it is under contemplation. In my last Report I said that the Jail required enlargement and I say so Still. The Saib is capable of holding about 190
Prisoners, yet have I seen
360 Prisoners within its walls,
upon this subject have I repeatedly "spoken, but it appears without the slightest affect - Since last Report, happy to say has been set apart Hospital for the Chinese
as an
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a Room I am
Prisoners ; it is ample and + sufficiently commodious and well
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Supplied with the necessary
comeniencies - At the backs of the Infirmary is a very large room capable of containing
about 70 men and the Room beneath is equally as large- In a corner of the
is placed
upper,
room
an, urinal communicating with the Lower Room and having.
no bit for the urine passing
the through it, that (a corner)
of
consequence is about 12.
feet
the lower room is daily. flooded and the Stench and Malaria arising therefrom is in my humble opinion quite sufficient for the cause of
Disease of the most Infections character. About this I have repeatedly spoken and even personally pointed out the existing nuisance :, but still it