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had
betiviat 1847 and 1849, if the figures. relating to cases" in the forner year been correct . bases prolonged from month to mouth are repeated
in
the reckoning
of each month in 1847, whilst in 1848
and 1849
the
:dmissions alone
are
iw
the
a
calculations of each month.
Fable No. C. — Shmoring the average strungth of
Police in 1847, 1848, 1849, and the
proportion of
Leaths to Strength.
Avenge thrength Average Feaths Proportion of Zeaths
annuí.
fior
178
par
14.66
TUNA BELLA,
to Strangth for
7.9¢ p. c.
The great mortality of 1848,
censioned by the shipwreck of 21 Policemen
the
win the
the
typhoon, has
has very
Prisoners in
onech enlarged in
-general average for the three years Table 12.7. _ Showing the total number of
in the Victoria Jail during year 1849, the number of sick and deaths, and the proportion of sick and mortality to strength."
the
Proportion of sich Proportion
"Portensor in from bases of sikap Deaths to strength wrath to hanged
during a fear.
1252
134
6
10.70
0.48 p. c.
The statistics of the Jail will
86
always afford a striking differences between the
and the deaths. The numbers in the column show the gross number of persons
strength
first
in Jail
in the
" year. They include those who
are remanded as well
Ad
those who are committed
for trial and convicted. A remand
entails an
very often
twelve
comprisonment of only timale or
twenty four hours.
during
The committals and convictions
the last year
this number
ad
were 1084; taking
the baxis of the annual
population of the prison, the result will be as follows. -
Strength...
1084
Proportion of sickness to strength. __ 12.36 pe
There
deaths.
can
0.55 p.c.
caist no doubt that
the prisoners in Victoria Jail are remarkably
exempt from disease. For " hospital gangrene
was a
many yearic.
troublesoned and
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