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" disease. The admissions to Hospital from the Police are more than

"one third of the total admissions

!to Hospital in 1883!

3.

It is satisfactory,

however, to observe that the

admissions to Hospital in 1883 show a favourable rate of sickness as compared with those in 1882, the increase in the number of m admissions being 50 while the __ increase in the number of the Force was 70. This improvement was altogether among the Indian

and

and Chinese Constables; the rate of

sickness

among the Europeans

showing a slight increase.

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Dr Ayres does not ...

condition of affairs

to

any

attribute this unsatisfactory

deterioration in the physique of the

men sent out from England to the Police; but to a supposed

join

increase in the number of hours

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or duty, especially night duty, and to the defective sanitary condition of several of the Volice Stations.

On the receipt of Dr

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etyres