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and abse the greatest number of I

lime in Victoria Gools The return shows likewise the number

prisoners at one

of

deaths for 1866 and 1867, respectively.

It must be extremely

gratifiping to Your Grace to revive such a returns, as it proves that, whilst incurring

the responsibility of closing the new and exlusive God at Stone Cutters Island, have not therely occasioned or increased mortality.

onversuding

On the contrary, the improvements introduced into the general administration of criminal firstics have have mabled

Justice

me not merely to economise the

expenditure

prisons by concentrating

Establishment

the Gael Staff in

ave

and ritilizing the labor of the Convicts,

but also to reduce the

average

number of all the prisoners in the

Colary below the confined in

3.

go formaly

average

Gaol.

The sinneltanious improvement

is ony

in the health of the prisoners remarkable. Admissions to hospital

in A 8b b

amomited to bbt - whereas in 1867 they only reached 19; whilst The former grow

the deaths were 70,

and in the latter only 8. The excellent

Delupate management of Mr Dinglas, the

of

1:384'- Para 18-

abo Mt 268,

Superintendent, aided by the active sanatory surveillance maintained

the whole Ratablishment, its discipline, dietary, 17, 17, by the Colonice:

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