Tubercle of the Lungs in Bengal Jails *A Paper read at the Medical Section, Asiatic Society of Bengal.
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Criminals are drawn for the most part from, what are often mis-called, the criminal classes, that is, from the poor and needy, the maimed and the diseased?the halfstarved submerged tenth?whose main inducement to crime is that they have been less fortunate than their fellows in the division of this world's) goods. The majority are, on conviction, in decidedly indifferent health, and it is extremely probable that for this reason they are more liable to phthisis than the larger 11011 cri minal population. Indeed it is my experience that many men suffering from disease commit crime in order
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