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Deduct proportion of difference in

strength

in 1848, and it will be found that the actual cxcess of sickness in 1848 over

1847

amounts to 141 cases, while the

excess of deaths is 30; but it must. be remembered that 20 deaths in 1848 resulted.

" from accident, and thus the comparison of deaths from disease in the tivo

years will be as 6, in 1847, is to 14, in 1848.

Table 76. _ The number of Risoners in

Fielenia jai, sick during the

year

year 1848; the

cache

number under treatment- cach month; the

number of deaths, ve, se.

Casts admitted Brought forward

in the sovelta

14

//

pom prevines

Fotal Me

of cases

treated.

Frial. J.

Ciattis. F

24 no go

of dayd pictč,

Dverage duration

dikare

Umirage fo

of cases per

250 144 8 192 | 11

diem.

6$

143 734€

+

5

//

196 1124

76

225 14

20

20

Jan 7. 3

Feby.

March.

12

April.

5

May.

10

Jude.

July.

2

August.

17

9

Sept+

9

23

Octr.

13

12 25

Noor.

13

15 28

•

Dest

Ꮄ

12

20

4

•

Total

5

145

2

88 243

8

199 97 63

27414284

27 2 337 12

10%/

407 | 17 | 13 2

38215412 4 426 15

14

308 15 10

The preceding table shows the actual

-number of Risoners admitted for treatment during

the yes

- year, to be 162 cases; and the

average number under treatment for month, to be 20. The

avere

drattis confined to the Malays. Two resulted from dysentery;

in

and Chinees

July and August, one from valvular disaño

stimased of the heart, and five from hospital gangrone", supervening

6.

"

slight ulcers, produced by the friction of the irons. The disease called, "hrepital gangrene, it is proper to say, is contagious

and epidemio

in its nature, and most

decidedly malignante In one case of gangrene, amputation of the infected limb was tried, but without, success. The worst card, after the expiration of the term of imprisonment,

*

was removed to the Civil Hospital, where the disease rapidly lost it's malignant character, and the patient : recovered; from which it is evident that removal from the infected=