The Effect of Hard Labor and Strict Discipline on the Mortality of Jails

causes, being 1*47 per cent, of tho convict population, 4-0 per cent, of tho admissions into hospital, and 4*43 per cent, of the average strength in continement. These results approximate very closely to tho returns for 1871; but to make the record of mortality a perfectly correct gaugo of the sanitary condition of the prisoners, it is necessary to regard every caso released on account of serious illness as a death in jail. I have thus to add 77 eases to the mortality, raising it to 821 individuals, and increasing tlic average percentage of deaths to population, admissions into hospital, and average strength to l'G, 5-1, and 4-8,