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Annexe H.
VICTORIA GAOL.
REPORT BY DR. W. J. WOODMAN, Medical Officer.
Buildings. The buildings and yards have been kept in good sanitary condition.
Health.--The health of the prisoners was satisfactory until the latter part of the year when an unsatisfactory rice supply and over-crowding prevailed. The first of these conditions has now been remedied and the second one will be shortly.
Deaths.--Nine deaths from disease took place. The causes were as follows: Pneumonia 4, Heart disease 4, Enteric fever 1. This is the average for the last 10 years. Seventeen prisoners were liberated for medical reasons: Heart disease 7, Pulmonary Tuberculosis 6, Renal disease 2, Beri-Beri 2.
Occurrence of certain specific diseases.
Typhoid Fever--4 cases were admitted, 1 death occurred. In 1918 there were 8 cases and in 1917 four cases.
Dysentry--2 cases were admitted, no death. In 1918 there were 4 cases and in 1917 two.
Pulmonary tuberculosis.--7 cases were recorded of which one died. In 1918 there were 7 cases, in 1917, 18.
Malaria.--There were 287 cases, of which 152 were admitted to hospital. There were 71 in 1918.
Influenza.--344 cases were admitted, one died. In 1918 there were 49.
Opium habit.--30 cases were treated as out-patients of whom 4 were admitted to hospital. In 1918, 70.
Beri-Beri.--During the first nine and a half months of the year 6 cases were admitted to hospital.
During the last week in October an outbreak of Beri-Beri occurred amongst the prisoners and is continuing at the end of the year; the number of cases to the end of the year was 202, of whom 189 were treated in hospital and 13 in the gaol.
Towards the end of July the unpolished rice given to the prisoners was changed to polished rice, owing to the impossibility of obtaining the former. Three months later an outbreak of Beri-Beri supervened.
The outbreak presents no features in any way different from other gaol outbreaks already recorded, except that it was impossible to get unpolished rice and dieting in other ways had to be used, and although this failed to stop the occurrence of the disease, the type...
M 48
Annexe H.
VICTORIA GAOL.
REPORT BY DR. W. J. WOODMAN, Medical Officer. Buildings. The buildings and yards have been kept in good sanitary condition.
Health.--The health of the prisoners was satisfactory until the latter part of the year when an unsatisfactory rice supply and over- crowding prevailed. The first of these conditions has now been remedied and the second one will be shortly.
Deaths.-Nine deaths from disease took place. The causes were as follows: Pneumonia 4, Heart disease 4, Enteric fever 1. This is the average for the last 10 years. Seventeen prisoners were liberated for medical reasons: Heart disease 7, Pulmonary Tuberculosis 6, Renal disease 2, Beri-Beri 2.
Occurrence of certain specific diseases,
Typhoid Fever-4 cases were admitted, 1 death occurred. In 1918 there were 8 cases and in 1917 four cases.
Dysentry-2 cases were admitted, no death. In 1918 there were 4 cases and in 1917 two.
Pulmonary tuberculosis.-7 cases were recorded of which one died. In 1918 there were 7 cases, in 1917, 18.
Malaria.-There were 287 cases, of which 152 were admitted to hospital. There were 71 in 1918.
Influenza.--344 cases were admitted, one died. In 1918 there
were 49.
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Opium habit.-30 cases were treated as out-patients of whom 4 were admitted to hospital. In 1918, 70.
Beri-Beri.--During the first nine and a half months of the year 6 cases were admitted to hospital.
During the last week in October an outbreak of Beri-Beri occurred amongst the prisoners and is continuing at the end of the year the number of cases to the end of the year was 202 of whom 189 were treated in hospital and 13 in the gaol.
Towards the end of July the unpolished rice given to the prisoners was changed to polished rice, owing to the impossibility of obtaining the former. Three months later an outbreak of Beri- Beri supervened.
The outbreak presents no features in any way different from other gaol outbreaks already recorded except that it was impossible to get unpolished rice and dieting in other way had to be used, and although this failed to stop the occurrence of the disease the type
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