Statistics of mortality among prisoners : being an inquiry into the death-rate of the government prisons of England, its causes, and the circumstances affecting it : with pathological observations.

  • Nicolson, David.
Date:
[1872]
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Credit: Statistics of mortality among prisoners : being an inquiry into the death-rate of the government prisons of England, its causes, and the circumstances affecting it : with pathological observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    diseases has been reduced to a minimum (’5 per 1000 prisoners ])er annum). VIII. That, while the mortality as due to imprisonment may be said to have diminished, upon the examination of the whole ques- tion the tendency has been towards an increase in the rate of death, which increase appears mainly attributable to a higher ratio of dis- ease existing among the convicts on reception.