1887.

1888. 280 306 37 47 13.2 15.3 34 54 12.1 . 17.6 APPENDIX 533 Mr. Galkine Wrasskoy, chief of the Russian prison administration, finds the prisons at the Nerchinsk mines to be in bad condition, and the medical attendance deficient. — Newspaper Vostochnoe Obozrenie, No. 26, p. 2. St. Petersburg, Sep- tember 23, 1882. THE PERM FORWARDING PRISON. The following- are the official statistics of sickness and mortality in the Perm forwarding prison for the years 1886, 1887, and 1888. 1886. Average daily number of prisoners 345 Average daily number in hospital 59 Sick-rate — per cent 17.1 Total number of deaths 84 Death-rate — per cent 24.3 — Rep's of Chf . Pris. Adm. for years indicated, pp. 53, 53, and 55. The sick-rate in Danish prisons ranges from 2.11 to 2.13 per cent., and the death-rate from 1.75 to 1.79 per cent. — Rep. of Internatl. Pris. Cong., London meeting, p. 78. THE SHERAGULSKI ETAPE. Typhus fever constituted 35.7 per cent, of all the sickness in the Sher- agulski etape in 1886, 23.4 per cent in 1887, and 39.1 per cent, in 1888. — Rep. of Chf. Pris. Adm. for years indicated, pp. 222, 317, and 293. The etapes, with a few exceptions, are in an unsatisfactory condition, and some of them are in ruins. In the Sheragulski etape, which has only two Jcdmeras with thirty-six cubic fathoms of air space, there are crowded as many as fifty sick prisoners, of all ages and both sexes. They he on the sleeping-platforms or under them as it may happen, and the stench in the Jcdmeras is such that it can be borne with difficulty, even for a few moments. The grievously sick, for want of attendance, wallow on the floor in the midst of filth and evacuations from the bowels, and their clothes rot on their bodies. Still worse, according to the reports of the physicians, is the condition of the women that are compelled to give birth to children under the eyes of the male prisoners. The situation of the children themselves is also terrible. —Newspaper Vostochnoe Obozrenie, No. 26, p. 1. St. Petersburg, Sep-

tember 23, 1882.