A treatise on relapsing or famine fever / by R.T. Lyons.

  • Lyons, R. T.
Date:
1872
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    APPENDIX II. The experiment of tlie Judges of the Court of ISFizamut Adawlut, on the prisoners in the Jails of the North Western Proyinces, in the year 1842. (Extracted from The Ind/ia Journal of Medical and Physical Science. New series, vol. i., 1843, p. 202.) No. 456. To A. Lang, Esq., Sessions Judge of Allahabad. K. a. n. w. p. Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt B StIotLkI of yoiir letter. No. 15, dated 29th ultimo, with its f'. Currie, inclosure, reporting the existence of a severe nior- jndges, and tality amongst the prisoners in the Allahabad jail, OffJ.'jiSle. and the measures adopted by the magistrate in communication with the medical officer, and with your sanction, to check this calamitous visitation, with then- result. 2nd. This mortality which is stated to have occurred prm- cipally among the convicts employed in hard road labour, and exposed to the stm, is referred by the civil surgeon to the inadequate quantity of food supplied to them, under the system of reduced diet allowance sanctioned by circular order of the Nizamut Adawlut, dated 2nd, and published in the Government Gazette of 20th July, 1841, viz., three quarters of a seer of meal per diem. To this opinion, as stated generally by Mr. Beattie from the commencement of the experiment, neither yourself nor the magistrate, Mr. Montgomery, were disposed to incline; recent inquiry and observation have, however, suggested to you a modification of the view at first taken, in so far as relate? to the prisoners compelled to hard labour and exposure, whose adequate nourishment from the present scale of ration you are disposed to doubt. 3rd. I am directed to express the court's approval of the various measures of remedy and prevention so promptly taken to arrest the evil, such as the removal of the prisoners from jad to a different location, their exemption from all labour and exposure to the sun, etc.; the step taken by the magistrate of increasing the ration by a quarter of a seer, as a temporary arrangement, is likewise under the circumstances approved of, for where the court observe even a possibility exists of Mr.