1 and they, of severe wounds, marasmus, or, dysentery.
2 The jail, with its hospital, is situated outside the city,
3 in one of the filthiest quarters, where all the wells of
4 the neighbourhood contain briny or bitter water; one'
5 notwithstanding all my endeavours and remonstrances,
6 I could not obtain from the government any better nou¬
7 rishment for my patients, than the usual jail diet, so that
8 I was obliged, in several cases, to har e recourse to a part
9 of the unemployed funds of the public hospital of the
10 Durbar, in order to provide such comforts as were
11 necessary. Taking these circumstances into considera¬
12 tion, my management was peculiarly fortunate; for,
13 during a period of two years from the foundation of
14 that hospital, not a single patient died of nn acute
15 disease—such as inflammation, fever, bolero, serpent
16 bites, &c. of which I had many cases ; Borne of them
17 so dangerous, that I had to visit the patients three or
18 four times a-day. My successor was less fortunate; lor,
19 during the first six months after the annexation (from
20 May till October 1840) while I was still in the country,
21 he lost upwards of sixty patients out of 1,000, not to
22 mention those who were dismissed as incurable. J may
23 state, with regard to the latter, that the experiments 1
24 made on similar diseases had often been crowned with
25 success, it was thought that the great mortality during
26 those six months was caused by the small and un¬
27 healthy situation of the hospital, in consequence of
28 which a larger was built, on the opposite side of the
29 jail. The prisoners received better nourishment, were
30 not so oppressed by hard labor, and were permitted
31 to use tobacco, opium, poppy-heads, hemp, churrus, &c.
32 which had been prohibited. I afterwards learned, that