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Inclosure 6 in No. 41.
RETURN showing the Numbers treated and Per-centage of Deaths in the several Jail Hospitals of the Island during the Year 1873.
Province.
Station.
North-Western
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Per-centage of
Death to the
Number treated.
Western ..
Welikada Hulfsdorf Kalutara
36
1,058 188
1,094 190
1,057
22
16
2.01
188
2
1:05
41
42
38
4
Negombo
136
136
118
15
2.20
Kegalla
21
21
16
Ratnapura
3
3
3
Kurunegala
189
205
192
2.92
Puttalani
105
108
106
2
1.85
Chilaw..
27
27
27
Southern..
Galle
110
114
96
6
12
5-26
Matora.
58
64
61
1
3-12
Harubentota
78
82
75
2
6.09
Tangalla
33
33
30
3
Jaffna ..
133
135
130
0.74
Manaar
371
373
359
10
1.07
Anuradhapura
21
21
21
Trincomalee
18
18
17
1
316
316
313
2
563
576
639
14
23
0.31 2.43
9
10
10
67
67
67
90
3,535 3,625 3,453
OB
104
1 90
Northern ..
North Central Eastern
Central
::
Batticaloa
Kandy..
Matelle
Badulla
Total
ABSTRACT of the Numbers Treated and Percentage of Deaths for the Five Years, 1860 to 1873 inclusive, in all the Jails of the Island.
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
Years.
Total Number Treated.
Percentage of
Deaths.
Deaths to
Number Treated.
2,004
58
2.81
1,976
90
4.55
1,953
133
6 8
2,930
148
9.625
88
5:05 1.00
ABSTRACT of the Numbers Treated and Percentage of Deaths in the Welikada Jail Hospital, for the Five Years, 1269 to 1873 inclusive.
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
Years.
(Signed)
Percentage of
Deaths to
Number Treated.
Total Number Trented.
Deaths.
263
B
3.04
108
53
19:07
518
80
15.44
1,269
86
6-77
1,094
22
2.01
W. P. CHARSLEY, M.D.,
Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals.
(No. 24.)
Sir,
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No. 42.
The Earl of Carnarvon to the Right Hon. W. H. Gregory.
Downing Street, March 20, 1874.
I HAVE received your despatch No. 16 of the 9th of January, in reply to my pre- decessor's despatch No. 159 of the 2nd of July,* on the subject of the sickness and mortality in Welikada Gaol.
2. I have read with regret the painful description of the gaol at Welikada, with its most inadequate accommodation for the prisoners and the results upon their health; and I shall look with anxiety to the reforms which you report yourself as contemplating.
3. I trust that no longer time than is necessary will be allowed to elapse before their execution; and I desire to be informed in detail as early as possible as to what is done or proposed to be done.
4. The statement in my predecessor's despatch that some of the cells in Welikada only contained 350 cubic feet arose from misreading the figure 8 for 3 in transcribing from one MS. to another.
5. I approve the Rules which you have framed respecting overcrowding and the inspection of cells.
6. With regard to the Medical Return inclosed in your despatch under acknow- ledgment, I have to observe that it is not rightly described as a Return of the Rate of Mortality among prisoners throughout the island during the past year. It is correctly described by Mr. Charsley as a Return of the proportion of deaths to prisoners medically treated. Had a note been added of the average prison population for the year, it would then have been possible to ascertain the proportion of deaths to the average number of prisoners. Dr. Charsley, with reason, excuses himself for not supplying this information, on the ground that he did not possess it; but as the Colonial Secretary's Office possessed it, or had the means of acquiring it, it is to be regretted that it was not added before the Return was sent home. The Forms of Returns forwarded to you by my predecessor in his Circular despatch of the 30th of January, 1872, would, if properly filled up, show the rate of mortality in a convenient form.
7. These Returns for 1871 were transmitted in your despatch No. 161 of the 2nd of September, 1873, and were commented on in detail by my predecessor in his despatch No. 286 of the 17th of December, 1873. for 1872 and 1873, with the Reports and observations required by my predecessor's I have not received the corresponding Returns Circular despatch, and I should be glad to receive them at an early date.
8. My predecessor, in his despatch No. 7 of the 7th of January last, desired to be furnished with fuller details as to the fitness of the barracks at Slave Island for use as a prison. I hope to receive your explanations on this subject without delay.
No. 43.
I have, &c. Signed) CARNARVON.
Acting Governor Birch to the Earl of Carnarvon.-(Received July 21.) (No. 35. Miscellaneous.) My Lord,
The Queen's House, Colombo, Ceylon, June 10, 1874. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 24 of the 20th of March,† in which you desire to be informed in detail as early as possible as to what is done or proposed to be done for the improvement of Welikada Gaol, I have the honour to transmit an extract from the Report of the Inspector-General of Prisons together with a Report from the Acting Superintendent of the Convict Establishments for the year 1873, which will fully explain the improvements that have been carried out and which are still contemplated.
2. I also forward a copy of a Manual of the Rules which have been prepared by the Inspector-General for adoption in the prisons of this Colony. They have been selected from those in force in the several Presidencies of India, and with the alterations proposed and adopted in Executive Council, will, I believe, tend to the general improvement of the prison system of Ceylon.
3. It is not without much hesitation that I have arrived at the conviction that it is unadvisable to increase the size of Welikada Gaol, unless the Municipal Council of Colombo undertake the construction of water-works at an estimated cost of 220,0007. There are certain seasons of the year when the water-supply for this gaol, even for the
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