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Rh. Both have prevailed to some extent in the convict camps of our Southern States, but I have failed to find any reference to them — at least in epidemic form — in the recent records of regularly organized prisons, either in western Europe or America. Both are common in Russian prisons from St. Petersburg to Kamchátka. Below will be found a statement of the proportion of these diseases to the whole aggregate of sickness in a number of Siberian prisons for a series of years. It is a very incomplete and unsatisfactory statement, for the reason that typhus and scurvy do not appear in the Russian official reports at all unless they constitute more than ten per cent. of the total amount of sickness, and I have been unable, therefore, to fill out the tables.

TYPHUS. Place. 1884. 1886. 1887. 1888.

Áchinsk per cent. Birusínski étape Irbít Irkútsk Ishím étape Koliván Krasnoyársk Marínsk " 13.1 Perm Sheragúlski étape Tirétski étape Tiumén 23.2 Tomsk forwarding prison

. . 16.6 . 15.2 . . 17.5 . . . 55.2 . . 50 . 77.7 . . 17.5 . . . 35.7 . . 23.4 . . 26.5 . . 19 . . 10.9 . . 56.4 . . 62.6 . 1888. 10.8 43 12 11.8 16.6 12.2 39.1 32.9 23.8

Reps. of Chf. Pris. Adm. for years indicated, pp. 222, 221, 316, and 292.

SCURVY. Place. 1884. 1886. 1887. 1888.

Alexándrofsk per cent. Balagánsk Barnaül Chíta Ekaterínburg Kará [Lower] Khabarófka Krasnoyársk Nérchinsk Pavlodár Vérkhni Údinsk Yakútsk

13.2 15 22.8 16.5 23.6 1886. 14.5 10.7 10.5 10.8 25 1887. 20 11.6 1888. 28.4 15.7 15.7 13.7 19.6 — Reps. of Chf. Pris. Adm. for years indicated, pp. 222, 222, 317, and 293.