elers being given that the cells should only be washed on dry sunny days soon decreased this class cases to an inconsiderable number. The case of Hernin was an old standing irreducible one. peration revealed that a piece of omentum twisted round the gut was the cause of the obstruction, the it was released from the constriction, but the old adhesions prevented its return to the abdomen, and he patient, a poor old debilitated creature, sunk and died soon after the operation. The case of Álco ulia was a poor old Indian named JERRY, who used to get his living by blacking sailors' boots and l to lang round tho grog shops in Queen's Road trying for customers. It appears he more often pay in the form of a drink than anything olso, and was frequently in Gaol for being drunk and incapable. This time he was brought in as usual, ho hardly recovered his senses, was unable to take od, and died soon after admission. On enquiry it appeared he had lived on nothing but drink for nnny days.
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There was one very curious case of feigned insanity this year in the Gaol. This was the prisoner NEWMAN on remand for murdor. For nearly three months, this man never spoko except on one occasion, and so skilfully did ho feign chronic dementia that had I not seen him from the first I should have been very doubtful about his case, as it was, I was quite sure he was sane. He was seen by other Medical men of more experience than myself in psychological cases, and they all had great doubts of innity. During his examination before the Magistrate, he kept up the slum most successfully, parently taking no note of the proceedings. Yet when he suddenly gavo it up a few days before trial, he showed how attentive le hnd been by his analysis of the evidence, and how carefully he lal noted things during the time he had been feigning by bringing a charge against one of the Warders of unnecessary cruelty, giving dates and murning events that occurred about the same time. He gave in, remarking "he'd sooner die than live fifteen or twenty years in Gaol after all." -All through this case many important symptoms were absent. The temperature never varied from health, the skin was moist and no particular smell could be detected, the tongue was clean, bowels regular mul pulse normal. He would not take any solid food for weeks, but he took enough soup and milk to keep a man in good condition, he never lost weight and though he would do nothing ho was told to do, yet when compulsion was used he was very careful to avoid being hurt in any way. When electricity or the cold douche was used, he shouted and struggled, but never uttered a word. He contrived to do with very little sleep, but never slept less than three or four hours in the twenty-four. The symptoms were, his silence, his doing with little sleep, stripping himself nakorl, obscene and dirty habits, duubing the walls with night soil, and only once his own fuce and body, singing to himself, and a pulsied motion of the head with twitching of the muscles of the face, but this only when he knew he was being watched. Two feigned attempts at suicida also when ho know he was being watched. These were very hungling attempts, very different from the cunning usually shown in Suicidal manin. Ile at last gave in when confined in a cell, specially prepared, so that he was watched
ho at all times, without his knowledge though he suspected it, the trial was then too great and ho gavo in all at once.
It was evident that he had at some time or other seen or been attendant on some case of madness, without which I do not think a man of his class could have made such a faithful copy. He was cool mul self-possessed in his lust moments making a short speech from the scaffold to the by-standers,
There is considerable difficulty with the sick in Hospital which is always overcrowded, the Chinese only getting about 200 cubic feet of space per man, and the Europeans about 500 cubic feet er unit is true the cells have large windows and only burred gates opening on to the corridors, t in winter the windows at any rate have to be closed and the ventilation is anything but good, led to which the night soil bucket is in the cell, though the dry earth systemn in use keeps the smell ron becoming overpowering. The other cells of the prison, with the exception of the European and curate cells, are just as much overcrowded. The close atmosphere of the cells and corridors at milking time in the morning is very bad, but all these things have been reported on many times by elf and others. Though the number of admissions to the finol this your is less than usual, yot he daily average number of prisoners is greatly in excess, and consequently the overcrowding is worse
han it evor was,
Total number of prisonera admitted to Gnol.
Daily average number of prisoners.
1878,..............................
4,656
388
1874.. 1875,.
8,645
850.4
4.028
874.06
4,065
482.60
1877
8.964
895.22
1878,.........................
3,803
519.10
There have been the usual number of opium cases, but with no case has there been any trouble. difficulty; they are not allowed any opium or other narcotics, and seldom require any particular tention. One old woman said sho had been an opium smoker for twenty-five years. She was sixty old and anemic, was treated for the Anemin and improved very much in general health, but her pian jin suoking was entirely ignored.