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heavier and more severe than an ordinary cut and flogging with the cane on the buttocks.
In the Army, this mode of punishment ultimately succeeded in being changed to that more humane.
I have had to write many reports on the sanitation of this institution and the earth closet system which was introduced, somewhat modified the stench of the buckets used in the cells at night.
Though I have had to report on the overcrowding, I cannot say that it had much evil effect as the sickness and mortality has been less than in any Gaol I have ever known.
After strong representations I made as to the impropriety of admitting lunatics into the Gaol, the old building was handed over to Mak for the use of lunatics in 1845.
This building was another source of anxiety and trouble, and a terror to the staff as it was not rain-proof and in the event of a gale coming, it was not safe, so the lunatics had often to be removed to the Police cells in the Central Station for twenty hours till the blow was over.
In 1849, this establishment first appeared in the Blue Book, being then removed to half of the old Government school building near the Civil Hospital.
It was not till 1885 that the new building, properly fitted as a Lunatic Asylum, was built and occupied.
As I have mentioned, the only place for the reception of Small Pox in European cases was a small verandah room in the Old Civil Hospital. Fortunately, in the first year, no cases occurred, and when that building was...
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