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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

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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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