[ VIII. ]

A TABLE

Of Admittances into the Hospital and Number of Days lost by Sickness in each Ward, with the Total Number, from 1st October 1845 to 30th September 1846.

3888

36

18

2

15

14

3

28

5

1

14

50

39

7

10

១

35

12134

21

2

34

71

[IX.]

A TABLE

Shewing the Number of Convicts received into the Penitentiary of Virginia, from the time it was opened in 1800, with the Pardons, Deaths, Escapes and Discharges in each Calendar Year, until the 30th September 1846, and the number on that day.

122

I

21

1

1

No. pardoned each year.

No. died each year.

No. escaped each year.

No. received for 2d, 3d and 4th offences, included in the whole No. received.

No. pardoned for 1st offence, and afterwards convicted, and year when last received.

No. pardoned for 2d offence, and again convicted, and year when last received.

No. sentenced for life and afterwards pardoned, and
year when pardoned.

No. sentenced for life and died in prison, and year
when died.

No. under 2d, 3d and 4th sentences, (but not for life,)
who died in prison, and year when died.

No. under 2d, 3d and 4th sentences, who were discharged, and year last discharged.

No. now in prison for 2d, 3d and 4th sentences, and year when last received.

2221

11 112.

33 117

3

15 114

6

14 106

[X.]

A TABLE

Shewing the Number of Slaves, Free Negroes and Mulattoes brought to the Penitentiary for Transportation, and those remaining on the 30th September 1846.

[XI.]

Report of the Condition and Employment of the Persons in the Penitentiary of Virginia on the 30th Sep

[C.]

REPORT OF THE PHYSICIAN AND SUPERINTENDENT.

To the General Assembly of Virginia.

The number of cases of disease in the penitentiary during the past year has been far greater than in any previous one since the existence of the cholera in 1832; and although owing to injurious influences necessarily incident to imprisonment, the prisoner's constitution can oppose but feeble resistance to active disease, and it is therefore, more fatal in prisons than elsewhere; yet we are happy to report, that such was its character, as to yield more readily to remedies, even in its graver forms, than similar cases ordinarily do. In more than 300 cases treated, only two have died-one, an old man of sixty-the other, a very delicate and unhealthy man, and both had when brought to the infirmary, the fatal symptom, hiccough, which continued until their death. Like success has been observed in the treatment of the diseases of the city, and its vicinage, and we learn in those of the country generally, the mortality being exceedingly small in comparison to their amount and violence, The almost epidemic prevalence of disease conclusively proves, that its great increase in the penitentiary is attributable to general, and not to local causes.

September 30, 1846.

A STATEMENT

J. N. BROOCKS, Physician.
CHARLES S. MORGAN, Sup't.

Of the Number of Deaths which have occurred in the Penitentiary of Virginia, from the 1st of December 1845, to the 30th September 1846, with the causes thereof, &c.