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in reference to the fatal cases which have vecurred, Tmy will be found tabulated in Table VIII. It is true that some of the

long term European prisoners shewed a teridency to anaemia and great prostration, of which the seventh case in the table of Deaths was one but inere was here something more - the mind

on the muris

a

acing strongly constitution and converting simple bitious attuck into gastritis and ultimately futul fever.

But notwithstanding this,

there have seldom been more

since the

than two at the same time in the

Hospital for Europeans rute of my taking charge, more than ten or twelve Chinese .

How far

nov

any men condemned

to long imprisonment, can underge

the whole term of their sentence

is a question

in Victoria Gaol, is

of the greatest importance - Past experience has shown the

impracticability of enforcing, without rish to life, lengthened imprisonment in the case of

Europeans, and His Excellency The Governor has on these grounds

more than once seen fit to extind his clemency to prisoners.