Lord Napier on Jail Sanitation

Tub late Governor of Madras is reported to have spoken as follows in tlie public health section of the Social Science Association :?" While 1 was in India there were about eight thousand 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 long-period prisoners, whilst those under short sentences were allowed to remain in their previous quarters, with a little improvement. Before these alterations were made, the death-rate, calculated on daily average strength, was 12 per cent, per annum. At the end of six years it had fallen to within 2 and 3 per cent. With an improved accommodation there was also some improvement in the dietary; but to what extent