A letter to the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, on the effects of solitary confinement, on the health of soldiers, in warm climates / by John Grant Malcolmson.
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- 1837
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, on the effects of solitary confinement, on the health of soldiers, in warm climates / by John Grant Malcolmson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![been inflicted by corporal punishment in a hundred years.* The revolting1 nature of military flogging, is in itself a recommendation,—] think its only recommendation,—as it renders courts martial averse to inflict it, and thus enlists a feeling in the minds of the judges, who are wisely required to witness its infliction, which tends effectually to prevent undue severity. * The following abstract statement, showing the mortality in a few of the Indian Jails, during the years 1833, and 1834, will surprise the reader. Jails. Deaths. Annual Deaths per cent, to aver- age numerical strength. r* • i Sherp-ottpp 131 130 202 100 235 130 101 26.20 24.70 57.71 29.41 33.71 35.42 38.42 pfeo < Bancoonah T Deenajpnor C Salem ns ^ / Guntoor co < 'P so 1 Raiahmnndrv It is deeply to be regretted that, by the construction put on a recent, order of the Honourable Court of Directors, by the Supreme government, the pay of the medical officers of civil stations, has been reduced to a mere pittance ; and that, hence- forth, the duties of these institutions must fall on young men, necessarily ignorant of the habits of the native population; and on that account, and because their opinions cannot be expected to have sufficient weight with the civil authorities, unequal to meet the exigencies so often occurring, with the remedies required.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21928733_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
