CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6] — Page 290

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12.

of branding prisoners on deportation and flogging them when

› cunning, up to

bay

the umbers went

an a

average of 50c.

Resorted to as is

the worst

Angring

of Characters

from Caston and the main it is greatly to be regretted that Precautions so salutary

and deterrent cannot -permanently adopted.

be

in

It is satisfactory to note that notwithstanding that the Prison. wurds have been thronged excess of 1869, there has been but little sickness, whilst the mortality

25 per cent less.

tvas

le

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Hospitals 10 The Colonial Surgeon

has

again drawn attention to the unfitness of the Civil Arspital for the purpose to which it being devoted, as well in respect to size as to construction

As

1996 cases, he observes,

have been treated in a structure, which is neither large enough

for.

f

nor adapted to the treatment

third of that mumber,

and under such circumstances

it seems

time should be lost in the

that

220

further

hospital .

erection of

A

new

I urge it now, especially in

consequence of the approaching

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