reduced to or below 20 per 1,000, every death above tliat rate is an unwarranted capital punishment.
LORD NAPIER ON JAIL SANITATION. Tub late Governor of Madras is
to have
reported
spoken
as
follows in tlie public health section of the Social Science Association :?" While 1 was in India there were about eight thou-
sand prisoners in the Presidency of Madras, and a plan being laid down for tlie improvement of the jail accommodation, it became my duty to prosecute that plan with all the energy and vigour I could. We commenced by giving greater accommodation to tlio sentences
long-period prisoners,
whilst those under short
allowed to remain in their
previous quarters, improvement. Before these alterations were made, death-rate, calculated on daily average strength, was 12 per
with the
a
were
little
per annum. At the end of six years it had fallen to within 2 and 3 per cent. With an improved accommodation there
cent,
was
also
some
improvement
the lessened death-rate
in the
dietary;
but to what extent
due to the greater accommodation' and to what extent of the improved food, I have been unable
determine."
Vi
e
was
have not heard that crime has
materially sanitary improvements, the judicial carnage which had "been going on in the jails of that Presidency has been stayed. The mortality rate of the convicts located in the Andaman Islands has, by a little sanitary care,'been reduced from rates varying from 10 to 50 per cent, to less than 2 per cent. And yet in the face of indisputable facts of;this sort, we are told that sanitation is "very doubtful." We most heartily endorse the opinion of the Judge of Chittagong that" no one in authority ought to do an act which would have for its result the infliction of a punishment not contemplated or warranted by the law." Tf it can be proved that, by the practice of sanitation, mortality rates can be
to
increased in Madras since,
by
a
few obvious
LORD NAPIER ON JAIL SANITATION. Tub late Governor of Madras is
to have
reported
spoken
as
follows in tlie public health section of the Social Science Association :?" While 1 was in India there were about eight thou-
sand prisoners in the Presidency of Madras, and a plan being laid down for tlie improvement of the jail accommodation, it became my duty to prosecute that plan with all the energy and vigour I could. We commenced by giving greater accommodation to tlio sentences
long-period prisoners,
whilst those under short
allowed to remain in their
previous quarters, improvement. Before these alterations were made, death-rate, calculated on daily average strength, was 12 per
with the
a
were
little
per annum. At the end of six years it had fallen to within 2 and 3 per cent. With an improved accommodation there
cent,
was
also
some
improvement
the lessened death-rate
in the
dietary;
but to what extent
due to the greater accommodation' and to what extent of the improved food, I have been unable
determine."
Vi
e
was
have not heard that crime has
materially sanitary improvements, the judicial carnage which had "been going on in the jails of that Presidency has been stayed. The mortality rate of the convicts located in the Andaman Islands has, by a little sanitary care,'been reduced from rates varying from 10 to 50 per cent, to less than 2 per cent. And yet in the face of indisputable facts of;this sort, we are told that sanitation is "very doubtful." We most heartily endorse the opinion of the Judge of Chittagong that" no one in authority ought to do an act which would have for its result the infliction of a punishment not contemplated or warranted by the law." Tf it can be proved that, by the practice of sanitation, mortality rates can be
to
increased in Madras since,
by
a
few obvious
