'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [‎78r] (151/266)

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APPENDIX TO JUDICIAL REPORT.
97. This increase may be explained by special circumstances, such as the decrease
of manufactures, for reasons already specified, costly military guards substituted for police,
high price of food, &c.
98. In Rutnagherry I have little doubt there will be an improvement; in Kaira so
many recent reductions have taken place that there is every reason to hope that it will
not again appear in the above table ; at Dhoolia and Poona the stoppage of manufac
tures has vastly enhanced the cost, especially in the former, which during 1861 showed
very favourable results before the factory An East India Company trading post. was virtually abolished by transferring the best
men to the gangs.
99. In the four Jails given below a considerable decrease
Decrease. of cost per head is exhibited, especially at Surat and Dharwar,
which is very satisfactory and creditable :—
Jails.
Ahmednuggur.
Dharwar ..
Sattara ....
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Surat
Names of Officers in Charge
of the Jails.
C. M. Harrison, Esq. ..
R. F. Mactier, Esq
W. H. Newnham, Esq...
F. Lloyd, Esq...
A. L. Spens, Esq.
R. F. Mactier, Esq. .. ,.
T. Weeding, Esq
A. B. Warden, Esq.
Names of Jailors.
1862.
1861.
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j lud Moutuzar. .
Rs.
a.
P-
Rs.
a. p.
54
3
11
71
12 1
^ W. G. Jukes ..
43
5
7
69
10 3
j> E. J. Baillie . .
104
2
6
126
9 2
Dadabhai Peston-
sha
59
7
6
101
1 1
Decrease
in 1882.
Rs. a. p.
17 8 2
Sickness and Mortality.
100. The aggregate decrease in these four Jails exceeds the increase in the seven
Jails included in the preceding table by Rs. 45-6-10.
101. In the following tables will be found detailed all the particulars of sickness
and mortality in the Jails during the past year. This is the
first occasion on which such sanitary details have been collected
and tabulated. The classification of diseases is in accordance with that of the Registrar
General in England, adopted by Dr. Mouat, and now introduced in this presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. .
102. The year 1861 was remarkable for its healthiness; that under report does not
bear this character: with a smaller average strength the deaths amounted to 221 against
204 in 1861, and the ratio per-cent of deaths to strength respectively to 7*2 and 5‘6.
The deaths from ordinary diseases were high, viz. 78, being 2 , 57 per-cent; those from
cholera 48, being 1*58 per-cent; the deaths from dysentery and diarrhoea were not so
numerous as during 1861.
103. I do not at all attribute this increase of sickness and mortality to local causes;
far from it. The conservancy and general sanitary arrangements of all the Jails have
been as far as practicable placed on an improved system: ventilation has received every
attention; drains, cesspools, and urinaries have been uprooted and destroyed; charcoal has
been literally introduced in the hospital and sleeping-wards, and every endeavour used
to make the conservancy as perfect as possible. In some Jails, as Surat and Tanna,
these reforms have been delayed from the extreme difficulty of carrying them out with
any satisfaction ; in the former instance, short of abandoning the Jail, at least for a time,
and eradicating its intricate and offensive drains.
7k ' 25
26 4 8
22 6 8
41 9 7