┌───────────────────────────┬──────┬────────┬───────┬────────┬────────┐ │ NATURE OF DISEASE. │No. of│Average │No. of │ No. of │ No. of │ │ │Cases.│duration│Deaths.│Families│Persons │ │ │ │ of │ │visited.│visited.│ │ │ │Disease.│ │ │ │ ├───────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼───────┼────────┼────────┤ │ │ │ Weeks. │ │ │ │ │Disease of Lungs │ 23│ 5½│ 1│ 117│ 335│ │Rheumatism │ 9│ 9│ │ │ │ │Accidents │ 9│ 4½│ │ │ │ │Erysipelas │ 3│ 8│ │ │ │ │Inflammation of Throat │ 3│ 5│ │ │ │ │Fever │ 15│ 5¼│ 1│ │ │ │Palsy │ 4│ │ 1│ │ │ │Dropsy │ 1│ 7│ │ │ │ │Disease of Liver │ 1│ │ │ │ │ │Jaundice │ 1│ 4│ │ │ │ │Carbuncle │ 1│ 5│ │ │ │ │Affection of Urinary Organs│ 1│ 17│ │ │ │ │Acute affection of Brain │ 2│ 3│ 1│ │ │ │Small-pox │ 2│ 5│ 1│ │ │ │Opthalmia │ 1│ 6│ │ │ │ │Whitlow │ 1│ 3│ │ │ │ │Lumbago │ 2│ 7│ │ │ │ │Eruptive disease │ 1│ 9│ │ │ │ │Inflammation of Stomach │ 1│ │ │ │ │ │Ague │ 1│ 4│ │ │ │ │Abscess of Loins │ 1│ 5│ │ │ │ ├───────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼───────┼────────┼────────┤ │ Total │ 83│ │ 5│ 117│ 335│ └───────────────────────────┴──────┴────────┴───────┴────────┴────────┘ It may be safely pronounced that if such an amount of sickness were known to prevail in a prison containing between 300 and 400 prisoners, the circumstance would excite public alarm and attention. Any of the preceding tables of the lower amounts of sickness may be taken as practicable standards of the extent to which it were possible, by the removal of the causes of disease, to bring the health of the labouring population.