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Table N.4. Showing the number of Policemen, their wives and Children, sick in 1850, the deaths, and the proportion of deaths to sickness.

Category	Sick	Deaths	Proportion of deaths to sickness
Men	217	5	2.35 Pc.
Women and Children	36	...	...
Total	255	...	...

The proportion of deaths to strength will readily be perceived in the fact that the same individuals have represented at different times different forms of disease, repetitions of the same disease.

Table 1.5. Showing the total number of Prisoners in Victoria Gaol in the year 1850, the number of cases of sickness and of deaths, and the proportion of sickness and mortality to strength.

Prisoners	Sickness	Deaths	Proportion of sick to strength	Proportion of deaths to strength
992	172	8	17.33	0.80 Pc.

It must be remarked that the averages struck, in the preceding table, against admission into the gaol, no matter what might be the term of confinement. While this method favours unduly the proportionable rate of mortality and sickness, I cannot help thinking that deducing averages from the monthly rate of population would be an error of greater magnitude in the opposite direction.

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The deaths in the prison have resulted from Apoplexy, Dysentery, Cholera, and Hospital "Gangrene. This latter disease will always, I conceive, be more or less incident on our prison, owing to the debilitated habit of the Chinese, the action of the chains on their legs, and their aversion to work, which induces them, by rubbing powdered crockery upon their limbs, to produce ulcers, which have a tendency to run into Gangrene. Dysentery has claimed its victims. In the latter end of July and the beginning of August, Cholera, verging on the malignant type, appeared in the gaol; a few cases assumed a decidedly malignant character, which terminated fatally.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Reference: TILLC.O./133 COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON 174. Table N.4. Showing the number of Policemen, their wives and Children, sick in 1850, the deaths, and the proportion of deaths to sickness. Category Sick Deaths Proportion of deaths to sickness Men 217 5 2.35 Pc. Women and Children 36 ... ... Total 255 ... ... The proportion of deaths to strength will readily be perceived in the fact that the same individuals have represented at different times different forms of disease, repetitions of the same disease. Table 1.5. Showing the total number of Prisoners in Victoria Gaol in the year 1850, the number of cases of sickness and of deaths, and the proportion of sickness and mortality to strength. Prisoners Sickness Deaths Proportion of sick to strength Proportion of deaths to strength 992 172 8 17.33 0.80 Pc. It must be remarked that the averages struck, in the preceding table, against admission into the gaol, no matter what might be the term of confinement. While this method favours unduly the proportionable rate of mortality and sickness, I cannot help thinking that deducing averages from the monthly rate of population would be an error of greater magnitude in the opposite direction. 175. The deaths in the prison have resulted from Apoplexy, Dysentery, Cholera, and Hospital "Gangrene. This latter disease will always, I conceive, be more or less incident on our prison, owing to the debilitated habit of the Chinese, the action of the chains on their legs, and their aversion to work, which induces them, by rubbing powdered crockery upon their limbs, to produce ulcers, which have a tendency to run into Gangrene. Dysentery has claimed its victims. In the latter end of July and the beginning of August, Cholera, verging on the malignant type, appeared in the gaol; a few cases assumed a decidedly malignant character, which terminated fatally.

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Table N.4. Showing the number of Policemen, their wives and Children, sick in 1850, the deaths, and the proportion of deaths to sickness.

Table 1.5. Showing the total number of Prisoners in Victoria Gaol in the year 1850, the number of cases of sickness and of deaths, and the proportion of sickness and mortality to strength.

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