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1873
VICTORIA
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
RETURN OF DISEASES
IN THE
VARIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER THE CHARGE OF THE
CHIE~ MEDICAL OFFICER
FOR THE YEAR
1872
PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCYS COMMAND
l5p lllutbority JOHN FERREll GOVERNMENT PRINtER MELBOURNE
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APPROf~lIATE CQ~~ OF REPORr~ ~ I ) ~ f bull t bull pound s d I
Preparation-Nil Priuting (715 copies) middot29 15 0
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Melbourne 13th March 1873
No 73313
SIR
I have t~e honor to transmit to you enclosed herewith for
the purpose of being printed and presented to Parliament Returns
Melbourne Gaol ts per margin of Diseases and Deaths which occurred at the several Pentridge Stoolmde Penal Hulk Sacramtnw Industrial School Melshy
bourne Nursery Scbool Melboumt IndnetrialScbool Sunbury
establishments under my medical charge during the year ended 31st Geelong lIampIlarat Gaol Geelong
Castlemaine It Ballarat Bandburst
December 1872 vICtoJ~ CogtPI
I have ampc
(Signed) W McCREA
Chief Medical Officer
The Honorable tlie ChiefSecretary
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RETURN OF DISEASES
MELBOURNE GAOL
RETURN or Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Gaol during the Year 1872
DIseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases Cynanche bullbullbull Erysipelas Erythema bullbullbull Carbuncle bullbullbull Mumps bullbullbull Diphtheria Pertussis Influenza Varicella Dysentery Rheumatism Diarrhrea bull
Order 2-Enthetic Disc(UJcs SyphiJs Gonorrhrea Phimosis Stricture
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Delirium rremens
_ Alcoholism
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Thrush bull Ascarides Tenia Scabies Porrigo
Total Class I
CLASS II-CONSTI1UlIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases ltEdema
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Scrofula Hremoptysis Phthisis Abscess
Total Class II CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
bullbull
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System
Softening of the Brain Otitis
Apoplexy Paralysis Insanity Ditto (Temporary or Supposed) Chorea bull Epilepsy bull Convulsions Ncurllgia Ophthalmia
Order S-Diseases if the Organs of Ci~clation
Disease of the Heart
Order 3-Diseases of tke Respirashytory Organs
Bronchitis Pneumvnia Asthma
t
S I ~ 1lg22 fO ~-s ei ~ ~ smiddot ~ ~I zt t~ ~~I ~~ DlBenses
i~ s~ ~8 ~~ ~S o
I~ -1------- ------ shy
Days - shy
40 4 i 7 2middot 2 5 11 2 5 1 16 4 10
63 4 3 10
13 4 106 13 139 4 2 143
middot42 22 39 9
1 23 11 17
]60 4 174 2
2 7 8 1 2
89 3 bullbullbull
middotmiddotmiddot~I-middotshybullbullbull I 913 6 3 0-32
I
8
5 4 4
28
10 7
26 7
2
50
---1--1--shy
1--1_=_ 2
1 8 1 1l 11
2 19 3 23
24 13 45 9
2 59 15 1 1
26
7471
45 14
5 7
147 9 1 14 b 2
487
100shy
50
100
068
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISIHSEIshy
continued Order 4-Diseases elf the Digestive
Organs Hremorrhoids Stomatitis Hernia llets Fistula Prolapsus Ani Dyspepsia Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases elf the Organs
Enuresis Diuresis
bull bull bull
Urinary
Order G-Dise(UJes of the Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Order 7-Dise(UJes of the Locomoshytive System
Arthritis Nemosis
Order 8-Diseases of the lntegushy mentary System
Phlegmon Ulcer Eczema Psoriasis Acne Urticaria Lichen Herpes Chilblains
Total Class III
CLASS iV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-Diseases of Adults Leucorrh(lja bullbullbull Menonhagia Parturition
Order 3-Diseases of Old People Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence fractures and Contusions Sprains Dislocation Wounds bullbull
bull
Order 5-Execution Hanging
Total CI~ss V
Total of all Classes
l5 bull ~ igg io ~ ~~ s~ ~ ~ w ~~ ~~ t4~ zS ai yen~ 3 t~ ~~ ~3 ~S ~S
Days
8 6 5 I) 6 3
37 2 4 53 2 11
248 5 2 8
3 7 2 5
1middot 16
26 14 3 3
94 8 83 17 18 13 19 19 10 12
3 5 5 5 5 19 1 22
~49 9 4 0421--- shy13 10 3 5 4 13
14 14 1 7l4
34 11 1 294
42 8 SO 9 4 13
60 7
1 100
137 8 1 073 ---1shy207~ 7 11 053
Average dally numellcn strength of establishment 441 Deaths per cent of ditto bull 249 Cases of sickness per cent of ditto 47029
6
REMARKS
The average daily number of wardera anp prieoners in the gaol during the year 1872 was 441 being a decrease on the prevIous year of 42 There is however II great increase in the general average for ten years This is owing to the retention of all tile female prisoners in the gaol instead of sending them to Pentridge lhe number of cases of sickness which were under treatshyment amounted tu 2074 II number smaller thun that treated ill the previous year but in grcllter pioportion to the nnmbers in thegaol not only of the previous year hut of the ten years averllge thc cases of sickness per cent of the number ofpersons in the gaol averaging duriug the ten years 418 whilst in 1872 it was 470
lho mortality in 1872 was considerably less than in 1871 amlless thau during the ten previoUs years the percentage of deaths for those years averaging 39 whilst in 1872 it was onlY33
The gaol during the year was very healthy nearlyall the seriousillness being attributable to causes external to the gaol
CLAampifZYMOTI~ DISEAsEs-Order l-Mtas11atic Disease~bull
Th~ di~~~ses of this order were with one exception less numerous and importllnt ~IHin usual This ~eeption was dillrrhma ofwhlCh dIsease 189 eases occurred and of them two died-one was an old woman WITo had ltreached the natural term of life undthe oth~rwas anirifantoftwo months old WIO had been ill soon after it was born and whose malady resisLed all treat-we Theea~s of w~ooping~ough weregenerally tmctable to trcatent
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Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
bull VenereaFIliBeas~s especiallygoporrhCl18werJl less numerous than during th~ preceding year Cnsideri~g the Class ~f pnsoners admitted into the gaol the amount ltf venereal disease isvclY small rhe dryness of theclimutehastnostlikelj a good effcct in diminidhing the spread of thes~ diseases Imiddot
bullbull - _1 bull 9 ~ 1 ~
z I i Order 3Dietic Di~eases
The number of cases which resulted from intemperance was asusual very great the CWles of delirium tremens exceedshying those of the previous year by 28 there was however only one death-a IllOst ~xtraordinary small mortality from thje dISCWlC J
bull ~ t I
I bull -t Order i Parasitic Diseases
c Ii l I The principal disease in tjlisorder is itch of-which there were 89 CWles Itig rmarkable that several incorrigible vagrants
whoare fraquentlYsent Withe gaol though cured wiils~in confinement always return affected with tho same disease 1
i I CL~SS IICoNsTiT~TIONAL D~llAsEslOrder 2Tubercular Diseases -
The numbe~ of cas~s~f Phthisis in th~ g~OI d~rini ~~~ year 1872 w~s I~Sg than usual being onlyfourin ok Two of these how~ver were fatal both occnrred in young wOinen and the disease was ih Lhelat stage orradmission to tlie gilo~
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I I CLASS III-LOOALDlSlilASEB-Order l-~se~~f of the Vervous Systeln bull 1 t bull bull bullbull gt bull I I ~ bull bull bull i
O~ thesedis~ases tlJe CWles ofmiddotepilepsy middotand neuralgia weremore numerous Lh~n during 1871 whilst those of)n~ljnity and ophthalmia were less riumerous One case of brain disease in ri tnan aged 30in which softening of the brain invohing the optic nerve occurred which provedfatal the diseasd being of oI4~stllnding AilOt~er fatal case was one qf apoplexy in
which dellth was caused by an extensive clot ofblood-in a woman 50 yearsltld A child 9months old was attacked with eonshyvulsions and died in II few hours ~ I I
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~~ l 11 Order-S-Diseases of 1lespiratotg tTgans ~J bull bull bull I bull
The)aSes of bronchitis which occupy ~ large space in this order were less nnmerous than nsrial The fatalcasa occurred in a child ~ho previously had whooping-cough and was a long tiIUe under treatment
~ ~ -i I Order 4-Diseases of the Dgelive Organs
~ ~~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~ j ~ j 1lt The princip~l diseaSe in this order was dyspepsia of which there were 248 cascs These occurred principally among the
middotfemales being the result of sedentary occupation and of previous-abuse of alcoholie middotfluids they were very amenable to treatment
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J i I ~r shybull I I lt Order 7-Iiseases of tIle Locomtltive System bull
i ~ ThecaBesof arthritig(acute rheumatism) were coiliparatively I)umerouS and more severe than usual they ~llh~~~verbull
yielded ~ the treatment adopted I
-i i Order 8 bull Diseases of the jntegumeniary System r) to + - middotThe-number of boils and ulcers under treatment was as usual very numerous and the ulcers w~re gener~ny 9f a worse
character than usual occupying more time in theirmiddot cure The other skin diseaecs were not either num~ous or imp9rtant I t
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMEN1AL DISEAsEs-Oraer SDiseases of Old People - - The cases of debility were more numerous tHan usual the benches of magistrates in Melbourne arid suburbs being
obliged to send such cases to the gaol the Benevolent Asylum not having room fOI them One old llan died from debility conscqu~nt on prevjous disease of liver
bull
CLASS V-VIOLENoE-Order I-Accident or Negligence1 bull 1 - I bull
The fractures in thi~ ordel were very few and all occurred preione to entering the gaol The contusions wo~nd~ and bullbullbull tbull iI)
sprains were more numerous than usual but all wereof a trivial nature
W MoCREA Chief Medical Officer
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PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
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A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
-
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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DayCLASS ilL-LOCAL DISEABEB-
continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
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I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
-
All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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APPROf~lIATE CQ~~ OF REPORr~ ~ I ) ~ f bull t bull pound s d I
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Melbourne 13th March 1873
No 73313
SIR
I have t~e honor to transmit to you enclosed herewith for
the purpose of being printed and presented to Parliament Returns
Melbourne Gaol ts per margin of Diseases and Deaths which occurred at the several Pentridge Stoolmde Penal Hulk Sacramtnw Industrial School Melshy
bourne Nursery Scbool Melboumt IndnetrialScbool Sunbury
establishments under my medical charge during the year ended 31st Geelong lIampIlarat Gaol Geelong
Castlemaine It Ballarat Bandburst
December 1872 vICtoJ~ CogtPI
I have ampc
(Signed) W McCREA
Chief Medical Officer
The Honorable tlie ChiefSecretary
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RETURN OF DISEASES
MELBOURNE GAOL
RETURN or Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Gaol during the Year 1872
DIseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases Cynanche bullbullbull Erysipelas Erythema bullbullbull Carbuncle bullbullbull Mumps bullbullbull Diphtheria Pertussis Influenza Varicella Dysentery Rheumatism Diarrhrea bull
Order 2-Enthetic Disc(UJcs SyphiJs Gonorrhrea Phimosis Stricture
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Delirium rremens
_ Alcoholism
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Thrush bull Ascarides Tenia Scabies Porrigo
Total Class I
CLASS II-CONSTI1UlIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases ltEdema
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Scrofula Hremoptysis Phthisis Abscess
Total Class II CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
bullbull
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System
Softening of the Brain Otitis
Apoplexy Paralysis Insanity Ditto (Temporary or Supposed) Chorea bull Epilepsy bull Convulsions Ncurllgia Ophthalmia
Order S-Diseases if the Organs of Ci~clation
Disease of the Heart
Order 3-Diseases of tke Respirashytory Organs
Bronchitis Pneumvnia Asthma
t
S I ~ 1lg22 fO ~-s ei ~ ~ smiddot ~ ~I zt t~ ~~I ~~ DlBenses
i~ s~ ~8 ~~ ~S o
I~ -1------- ------ shy
Days - shy
40 4 i 7 2middot 2 5 11 2 5 1 16 4 10
63 4 3 10
13 4 106 13 139 4 2 143
middot42 22 39 9
1 23 11 17
]60 4 174 2
2 7 8 1 2
89 3 bullbullbull
middotmiddotmiddot~I-middotshybullbullbull I 913 6 3 0-32
I
8
5 4 4
28
10 7
26 7
2
50
---1--1--shy
1--1_=_ 2
1 8 1 1l 11
2 19 3 23
24 13 45 9
2 59 15 1 1
26
7471
45 14
5 7
147 9 1 14 b 2
487
100shy
50
100
068
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISIHSEIshy
continued Order 4-Diseases elf the Digestive
Organs Hremorrhoids Stomatitis Hernia llets Fistula Prolapsus Ani Dyspepsia Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases elf the Organs
Enuresis Diuresis
bull bull bull
Urinary
Order G-Dise(UJes of the Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Order 7-Dise(UJes of the Locomoshytive System
Arthritis Nemosis
Order 8-Diseases of the lntegushy mentary System
Phlegmon Ulcer Eczema Psoriasis Acne Urticaria Lichen Herpes Chilblains
Total Class III
CLASS iV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-Diseases of Adults Leucorrh(lja bullbullbull Menonhagia Parturition
Order 3-Diseases of Old People Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence fractures and Contusions Sprains Dislocation Wounds bullbull
bull
Order 5-Execution Hanging
Total CI~ss V
Total of all Classes
l5 bull ~ igg io ~ ~~ s~ ~ ~ w ~~ ~~ t4~ zS ai yen~ 3 t~ ~~ ~3 ~S ~S
Days
8 6 5 I) 6 3
37 2 4 53 2 11
248 5 2 8
3 7 2 5
1middot 16
26 14 3 3
94 8 83 17 18 13 19 19 10 12
3 5 5 5 5 19 1 22
~49 9 4 0421--- shy13 10 3 5 4 13
14 14 1 7l4
34 11 1 294
42 8 SO 9 4 13
60 7
1 100
137 8 1 073 ---1shy207~ 7 11 053
Average dally numellcn strength of establishment 441 Deaths per cent of ditto bull 249 Cases of sickness per cent of ditto 47029
6
REMARKS
The average daily number of wardera anp prieoners in the gaol during the year 1872 was 441 being a decrease on the prevIous year of 42 There is however II great increase in the general average for ten years This is owing to the retention of all tile female prisoners in the gaol instead of sending them to Pentridge lhe number of cases of sickness which were under treatshyment amounted tu 2074 II number smaller thun that treated ill the previous year but in grcllter pioportion to the nnmbers in thegaol not only of the previous year hut of the ten years averllge thc cases of sickness per cent of the number ofpersons in the gaol averaging duriug the ten years 418 whilst in 1872 it was 470
lho mortality in 1872 was considerably less than in 1871 amlless thau during the ten previoUs years the percentage of deaths for those years averaging 39 whilst in 1872 it was onlY33
The gaol during the year was very healthy nearlyall the seriousillness being attributable to causes external to the gaol
CLAampifZYMOTI~ DISEAsEs-Order l-Mtas11atic Disease~bull
Th~ di~~~ses of this order were with one exception less numerous and importllnt ~IHin usual This ~eeption was dillrrhma ofwhlCh dIsease 189 eases occurred and of them two died-one was an old woman WITo had ltreached the natural term of life undthe oth~rwas anirifantoftwo months old WIO had been ill soon after it was born and whose malady resisLed all treat-we Theea~s of w~ooping~ough weregenerally tmctable to trcatent
-1
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
bull VenereaFIliBeas~s especiallygoporrhCl18werJl less numerous than during th~ preceding year Cnsideri~g the Class ~f pnsoners admitted into the gaol the amount ltf venereal disease isvclY small rhe dryness of theclimutehastnostlikelj a good effcct in diminidhing the spread of thes~ diseases Imiddot
bullbull - _1 bull 9 ~ 1 ~
z I i Order 3Dietic Di~eases
The number of cases which resulted from intemperance was asusual very great the CWles of delirium tremens exceedshying those of the previous year by 28 there was however only one death-a IllOst ~xtraordinary small mortality from thje dISCWlC J
bull ~ t I
I bull -t Order i Parasitic Diseases
c Ii l I The principal disease in tjlisorder is itch of-which there were 89 CWles Itig rmarkable that several incorrigible vagrants
whoare fraquentlYsent Withe gaol though cured wiils~in confinement always return affected with tho same disease 1
i I CL~SS IICoNsTiT~TIONAL D~llAsEslOrder 2Tubercular Diseases -
The numbe~ of cas~s~f Phthisis in th~ g~OI d~rini ~~~ year 1872 w~s I~Sg than usual being onlyfourin ok Two of these how~ver were fatal both occnrred in young wOinen and the disease was ih Lhelat stage orradmission to tlie gilo~
I
I I CLASS III-LOOALDlSlilASEB-Order l-~se~~f of the Vervous Systeln bull 1 t bull bull bullbull gt bull I I ~ bull bull bull i
O~ thesedis~ases tlJe CWles ofmiddotepilepsy middotand neuralgia weremore numerous Lh~n during 1871 whilst those of)n~ljnity and ophthalmia were less riumerous One case of brain disease in ri tnan aged 30in which softening of the brain invohing the optic nerve occurred which provedfatal the diseasd being of oI4~stllnding AilOt~er fatal case was one qf apoplexy in
which dellth was caused by an extensive clot ofblood-in a woman 50 yearsltld A child 9months old was attacked with eonshyvulsions and died in II few hours ~ I I
~ I ~
~~ l 11 Order-S-Diseases of 1lespiratotg tTgans ~J bull bull bull I bull
The)aSes of bronchitis which occupy ~ large space in this order were less nnmerous than nsrial The fatalcasa occurred in a child ~ho previously had whooping-cough and was a long tiIUe under treatment
~ ~ -i I Order 4-Diseases of the Dgelive Organs
~ ~~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~ j ~ j 1lt The princip~l diseaSe in this order was dyspepsia of which there were 248 cascs These occurred principally among the
middotfemales being the result of sedentary occupation and of previous-abuse of alcoholie middotfluids they were very amenable to treatment
I I
J i I ~r shybull I I lt Order 7-Iiseases of tIle Locomtltive System bull
i ~ ThecaBesof arthritig(acute rheumatism) were coiliparatively I)umerouS and more severe than usual they ~llh~~~verbull
yielded ~ the treatment adopted I
-i i Order 8 bull Diseases of the jntegumeniary System r) to + - middotThe-number of boils and ulcers under treatment was as usual very numerous and the ulcers w~re gener~ny 9f a worse
character than usual occupying more time in theirmiddot cure The other skin diseaecs were not either num~ous or imp9rtant I t
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMEN1AL DISEAsEs-Oraer SDiseases of Old People - - The cases of debility were more numerous tHan usual the benches of magistrates in Melbourne arid suburbs being
obliged to send such cases to the gaol the Benevolent Asylum not having room fOI them One old llan died from debility conscqu~nt on prevjous disease of liver
bull
CLASS V-VIOLENoE-Order I-Accident or Negligence1 bull 1 - I bull
The fractures in thi~ ordel were very few and all occurred preione to entering the gaol The contusions wo~nd~ and bullbullbull tbull iI)
sprains were more numerous than usual but all wereof a trivial nature
W MoCREA Chief Medical Officer
bullbullbull
PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
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A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
-
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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DayCLASS ilL-LOCAL DISEABEB-
continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
I
I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
~ i
CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
-
All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Melbourne 13th March 1873
No 73313
SIR
I have t~e honor to transmit to you enclosed herewith for
the purpose of being printed and presented to Parliament Returns
Melbourne Gaol ts per margin of Diseases and Deaths which occurred at the several Pentridge Stoolmde Penal Hulk Sacramtnw Industrial School Melshy
bourne Nursery Scbool Melboumt IndnetrialScbool Sunbury
establishments under my medical charge during the year ended 31st Geelong lIampIlarat Gaol Geelong
Castlemaine It Ballarat Bandburst
December 1872 vICtoJ~ CogtPI
I have ampc
(Signed) W McCREA
Chief Medical Officer
The Honorable tlie ChiefSecretary
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RETURN OF DISEASES
MELBOURNE GAOL
RETURN or Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Gaol during the Year 1872
DIseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases Cynanche bullbullbull Erysipelas Erythema bullbullbull Carbuncle bullbullbull Mumps bullbullbull Diphtheria Pertussis Influenza Varicella Dysentery Rheumatism Diarrhrea bull
Order 2-Enthetic Disc(UJcs SyphiJs Gonorrhrea Phimosis Stricture
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Delirium rremens
_ Alcoholism
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Thrush bull Ascarides Tenia Scabies Porrigo
Total Class I
CLASS II-CONSTI1UlIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases ltEdema
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Scrofula Hremoptysis Phthisis Abscess
Total Class II CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
bullbull
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System
Softening of the Brain Otitis
Apoplexy Paralysis Insanity Ditto (Temporary or Supposed) Chorea bull Epilepsy bull Convulsions Ncurllgia Ophthalmia
Order S-Diseases if the Organs of Ci~clation
Disease of the Heart
Order 3-Diseases of tke Respirashytory Organs
Bronchitis Pneumvnia Asthma
t
S I ~ 1lg22 fO ~-s ei ~ ~ smiddot ~ ~I zt t~ ~~I ~~ DlBenses
i~ s~ ~8 ~~ ~S o
I~ -1------- ------ shy
Days - shy
40 4 i 7 2middot 2 5 11 2 5 1 16 4 10
63 4 3 10
13 4 106 13 139 4 2 143
middot42 22 39 9
1 23 11 17
]60 4 174 2
2 7 8 1 2
89 3 bullbullbull
middotmiddotmiddot~I-middotshybullbullbull I 913 6 3 0-32
I
8
5 4 4
28
10 7
26 7
2
50
---1--1--shy
1--1_=_ 2
1 8 1 1l 11
2 19 3 23
24 13 45 9
2 59 15 1 1
26
7471
45 14
5 7
147 9 1 14 b 2
487
100shy
50
100
068
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISIHSEIshy
continued Order 4-Diseases elf the Digestive
Organs Hremorrhoids Stomatitis Hernia llets Fistula Prolapsus Ani Dyspepsia Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases elf the Organs
Enuresis Diuresis
bull bull bull
Urinary
Order G-Dise(UJes of the Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Order 7-Dise(UJes of the Locomoshytive System
Arthritis Nemosis
Order 8-Diseases of the lntegushy mentary System
Phlegmon Ulcer Eczema Psoriasis Acne Urticaria Lichen Herpes Chilblains
Total Class III
CLASS iV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-Diseases of Adults Leucorrh(lja bullbullbull Menonhagia Parturition
Order 3-Diseases of Old People Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence fractures and Contusions Sprains Dislocation Wounds bullbull
bull
Order 5-Execution Hanging
Total CI~ss V
Total of all Classes
l5 bull ~ igg io ~ ~~ s~ ~ ~ w ~~ ~~ t4~ zS ai yen~ 3 t~ ~~ ~3 ~S ~S
Days
8 6 5 I) 6 3
37 2 4 53 2 11
248 5 2 8
3 7 2 5
1middot 16
26 14 3 3
94 8 83 17 18 13 19 19 10 12
3 5 5 5 5 19 1 22
~49 9 4 0421--- shy13 10 3 5 4 13
14 14 1 7l4
34 11 1 294
42 8 SO 9 4 13
60 7
1 100
137 8 1 073 ---1shy207~ 7 11 053
Average dally numellcn strength of establishment 441 Deaths per cent of ditto bull 249 Cases of sickness per cent of ditto 47029
6
REMARKS
The average daily number of wardera anp prieoners in the gaol during the year 1872 was 441 being a decrease on the prevIous year of 42 There is however II great increase in the general average for ten years This is owing to the retention of all tile female prisoners in the gaol instead of sending them to Pentridge lhe number of cases of sickness which were under treatshyment amounted tu 2074 II number smaller thun that treated ill the previous year but in grcllter pioportion to the nnmbers in thegaol not only of the previous year hut of the ten years averllge thc cases of sickness per cent of the number ofpersons in the gaol averaging duriug the ten years 418 whilst in 1872 it was 470
lho mortality in 1872 was considerably less than in 1871 amlless thau during the ten previoUs years the percentage of deaths for those years averaging 39 whilst in 1872 it was onlY33
The gaol during the year was very healthy nearlyall the seriousillness being attributable to causes external to the gaol
CLAampifZYMOTI~ DISEAsEs-Order l-Mtas11atic Disease~bull
Th~ di~~~ses of this order were with one exception less numerous and importllnt ~IHin usual This ~eeption was dillrrhma ofwhlCh dIsease 189 eases occurred and of them two died-one was an old woman WITo had ltreached the natural term of life undthe oth~rwas anirifantoftwo months old WIO had been ill soon after it was born and whose malady resisLed all treat-we Theea~s of w~ooping~ough weregenerally tmctable to trcatent
-1
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
bull VenereaFIliBeas~s especiallygoporrhCl18werJl less numerous than during th~ preceding year Cnsideri~g the Class ~f pnsoners admitted into the gaol the amount ltf venereal disease isvclY small rhe dryness of theclimutehastnostlikelj a good effcct in diminidhing the spread of thes~ diseases Imiddot
bullbull - _1 bull 9 ~ 1 ~
z I i Order 3Dietic Di~eases
The number of cases which resulted from intemperance was asusual very great the CWles of delirium tremens exceedshying those of the previous year by 28 there was however only one death-a IllOst ~xtraordinary small mortality from thje dISCWlC J
bull ~ t I
I bull -t Order i Parasitic Diseases
c Ii l I The principal disease in tjlisorder is itch of-which there were 89 CWles Itig rmarkable that several incorrigible vagrants
whoare fraquentlYsent Withe gaol though cured wiils~in confinement always return affected with tho same disease 1
i I CL~SS IICoNsTiT~TIONAL D~llAsEslOrder 2Tubercular Diseases -
The numbe~ of cas~s~f Phthisis in th~ g~OI d~rini ~~~ year 1872 w~s I~Sg than usual being onlyfourin ok Two of these how~ver were fatal both occnrred in young wOinen and the disease was ih Lhelat stage orradmission to tlie gilo~
I
I I CLASS III-LOOALDlSlilASEB-Order l-~se~~f of the Vervous Systeln bull 1 t bull bull bullbull gt bull I I ~ bull bull bull i
O~ thesedis~ases tlJe CWles ofmiddotepilepsy middotand neuralgia weremore numerous Lh~n during 1871 whilst those of)n~ljnity and ophthalmia were less riumerous One case of brain disease in ri tnan aged 30in which softening of the brain invohing the optic nerve occurred which provedfatal the diseasd being of oI4~stllnding AilOt~er fatal case was one qf apoplexy in
which dellth was caused by an extensive clot ofblood-in a woman 50 yearsltld A child 9months old was attacked with eonshyvulsions and died in II few hours ~ I I
~ I ~
~~ l 11 Order-S-Diseases of 1lespiratotg tTgans ~J bull bull bull I bull
The)aSes of bronchitis which occupy ~ large space in this order were less nnmerous than nsrial The fatalcasa occurred in a child ~ho previously had whooping-cough and was a long tiIUe under treatment
~ ~ -i I Order 4-Diseases of the Dgelive Organs
~ ~~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~ j ~ j 1lt The princip~l diseaSe in this order was dyspepsia of which there were 248 cascs These occurred principally among the
middotfemales being the result of sedentary occupation and of previous-abuse of alcoholie middotfluids they were very amenable to treatment
I I
J i I ~r shybull I I lt Order 7-Iiseases of tIle Locomtltive System bull
i ~ ThecaBesof arthritig(acute rheumatism) were coiliparatively I)umerouS and more severe than usual they ~llh~~~verbull
yielded ~ the treatment adopted I
-i i Order 8 bull Diseases of the jntegumeniary System r) to + - middotThe-number of boils and ulcers under treatment was as usual very numerous and the ulcers w~re gener~ny 9f a worse
character than usual occupying more time in theirmiddot cure The other skin diseaecs were not either num~ous or imp9rtant I t
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMEN1AL DISEAsEs-Oraer SDiseases of Old People - - The cases of debility were more numerous tHan usual the benches of magistrates in Melbourne arid suburbs being
obliged to send such cases to the gaol the Benevolent Asylum not having room fOI them One old llan died from debility conscqu~nt on prevjous disease of liver
bull
CLASS V-VIOLENoE-Order I-Accident or Negligence1 bull 1 - I bull
The fractures in thi~ ordel were very few and all occurred preione to entering the gaol The contusions wo~nd~ and bullbullbull tbull iI)
sprains were more numerous than usual but all wereof a trivial nature
W MoCREA Chief Medical Officer
bullbullbull
PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
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A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
-
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
1-------------_---_
DayCLASS ilL-LOCAL DISEABEB-
continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
I
I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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I
MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
~ i
CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
-
9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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RETURN OF DISEASES
MELBOURNE GAOL
RETURN or Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Gaol during the Year 1872
DIseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases Cynanche bullbullbull Erysipelas Erythema bullbullbull Carbuncle bullbullbull Mumps bullbullbull Diphtheria Pertussis Influenza Varicella Dysentery Rheumatism Diarrhrea bull
Order 2-Enthetic Disc(UJcs SyphiJs Gonorrhrea Phimosis Stricture
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Delirium rremens
_ Alcoholism
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Thrush bull Ascarides Tenia Scabies Porrigo
Total Class I
CLASS II-CONSTI1UlIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases ltEdema
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Scrofula Hremoptysis Phthisis Abscess
Total Class II CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
bullbull
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System
Softening of the Brain Otitis
Apoplexy Paralysis Insanity Ditto (Temporary or Supposed) Chorea bull Epilepsy bull Convulsions Ncurllgia Ophthalmia
Order S-Diseases if the Organs of Ci~clation
Disease of the Heart
Order 3-Diseases of tke Respirashytory Organs
Bronchitis Pneumvnia Asthma
t
S I ~ 1lg22 fO ~-s ei ~ ~ smiddot ~ ~I zt t~ ~~I ~~ DlBenses
i~ s~ ~8 ~~ ~S o
I~ -1------- ------ shy
Days - shy
40 4 i 7 2middot 2 5 11 2 5 1 16 4 10
63 4 3 10
13 4 106 13 139 4 2 143
middot42 22 39 9
1 23 11 17
]60 4 174 2
2 7 8 1 2
89 3 bullbullbull
middotmiddotmiddot~I-middotshybullbullbull I 913 6 3 0-32
I
8
5 4 4
28
10 7
26 7
2
50
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1--1_=_ 2
1 8 1 1l 11
2 19 3 23
24 13 45 9
2 59 15 1 1
26
7471
45 14
5 7
147 9 1 14 b 2
487
100shy
50
100
068
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISIHSEIshy
continued Order 4-Diseases elf the Digestive
Organs Hremorrhoids Stomatitis Hernia llets Fistula Prolapsus Ani Dyspepsia Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases elf the Organs
Enuresis Diuresis
bull bull bull
Urinary
Order G-Dise(UJes of the Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Order 7-Dise(UJes of the Locomoshytive System
Arthritis Nemosis
Order 8-Diseases of the lntegushy mentary System
Phlegmon Ulcer Eczema Psoriasis Acne Urticaria Lichen Herpes Chilblains
Total Class III
CLASS iV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-Diseases of Adults Leucorrh(lja bullbullbull Menonhagia Parturition
Order 3-Diseases of Old People Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence fractures and Contusions Sprains Dislocation Wounds bullbull
bull
Order 5-Execution Hanging
Total CI~ss V
Total of all Classes
l5 bull ~ igg io ~ ~~ s~ ~ ~ w ~~ ~~ t4~ zS ai yen~ 3 t~ ~~ ~3 ~S ~S
Days
8 6 5 I) 6 3
37 2 4 53 2 11
248 5 2 8
3 7 2 5
1middot 16
26 14 3 3
94 8 83 17 18 13 19 19 10 12
3 5 5 5 5 19 1 22
~49 9 4 0421--- shy13 10 3 5 4 13
14 14 1 7l4
34 11 1 294
42 8 SO 9 4 13
60 7
1 100
137 8 1 073 ---1shy207~ 7 11 053
Average dally numellcn strength of establishment 441 Deaths per cent of ditto bull 249 Cases of sickness per cent of ditto 47029
6
REMARKS
The average daily number of wardera anp prieoners in the gaol during the year 1872 was 441 being a decrease on the prevIous year of 42 There is however II great increase in the general average for ten years This is owing to the retention of all tile female prisoners in the gaol instead of sending them to Pentridge lhe number of cases of sickness which were under treatshyment amounted tu 2074 II number smaller thun that treated ill the previous year but in grcllter pioportion to the nnmbers in thegaol not only of the previous year hut of the ten years averllge thc cases of sickness per cent of the number ofpersons in the gaol averaging duriug the ten years 418 whilst in 1872 it was 470
lho mortality in 1872 was considerably less than in 1871 amlless thau during the ten previoUs years the percentage of deaths for those years averaging 39 whilst in 1872 it was onlY33
The gaol during the year was very healthy nearlyall the seriousillness being attributable to causes external to the gaol
CLAampifZYMOTI~ DISEAsEs-Order l-Mtas11atic Disease~bull
Th~ di~~~ses of this order were with one exception less numerous and importllnt ~IHin usual This ~eeption was dillrrhma ofwhlCh dIsease 189 eases occurred and of them two died-one was an old woman WITo had ltreached the natural term of life undthe oth~rwas anirifantoftwo months old WIO had been ill soon after it was born and whose malady resisLed all treat-we Theea~s of w~ooping~ough weregenerally tmctable to trcatent
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Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
bull VenereaFIliBeas~s especiallygoporrhCl18werJl less numerous than during th~ preceding year Cnsideri~g the Class ~f pnsoners admitted into the gaol the amount ltf venereal disease isvclY small rhe dryness of theclimutehastnostlikelj a good effcct in diminidhing the spread of thes~ diseases Imiddot
bullbull - _1 bull 9 ~ 1 ~
z I i Order 3Dietic Di~eases
The number of cases which resulted from intemperance was asusual very great the CWles of delirium tremens exceedshying those of the previous year by 28 there was however only one death-a IllOst ~xtraordinary small mortality from thje dISCWlC J
bull ~ t I
I bull -t Order i Parasitic Diseases
c Ii l I The principal disease in tjlisorder is itch of-which there were 89 CWles Itig rmarkable that several incorrigible vagrants
whoare fraquentlYsent Withe gaol though cured wiils~in confinement always return affected with tho same disease 1
i I CL~SS IICoNsTiT~TIONAL D~llAsEslOrder 2Tubercular Diseases -
The numbe~ of cas~s~f Phthisis in th~ g~OI d~rini ~~~ year 1872 w~s I~Sg than usual being onlyfourin ok Two of these how~ver were fatal both occnrred in young wOinen and the disease was ih Lhelat stage orradmission to tlie gilo~
I
I I CLASS III-LOOALDlSlilASEB-Order l-~se~~f of the Vervous Systeln bull 1 t bull bull bullbull gt bull I I ~ bull bull bull i
O~ thesedis~ases tlJe CWles ofmiddotepilepsy middotand neuralgia weremore numerous Lh~n during 1871 whilst those of)n~ljnity and ophthalmia were less riumerous One case of brain disease in ri tnan aged 30in which softening of the brain invohing the optic nerve occurred which provedfatal the diseasd being of oI4~stllnding AilOt~er fatal case was one qf apoplexy in
which dellth was caused by an extensive clot ofblood-in a woman 50 yearsltld A child 9months old was attacked with eonshyvulsions and died in II few hours ~ I I
~ I ~
~~ l 11 Order-S-Diseases of 1lespiratotg tTgans ~J bull bull bull I bull
The)aSes of bronchitis which occupy ~ large space in this order were less nnmerous than nsrial The fatalcasa occurred in a child ~ho previously had whooping-cough and was a long tiIUe under treatment
~ ~ -i I Order 4-Diseases of the Dgelive Organs
~ ~~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~ j ~ j 1lt The princip~l diseaSe in this order was dyspepsia of which there were 248 cascs These occurred principally among the
middotfemales being the result of sedentary occupation and of previous-abuse of alcoholie middotfluids they were very amenable to treatment
I I
J i I ~r shybull I I lt Order 7-Iiseases of tIle Locomtltive System bull
i ~ ThecaBesof arthritig(acute rheumatism) were coiliparatively I)umerouS and more severe than usual they ~llh~~~verbull
yielded ~ the treatment adopted I
-i i Order 8 bull Diseases of the jntegumeniary System r) to + - middotThe-number of boils and ulcers under treatment was as usual very numerous and the ulcers w~re gener~ny 9f a worse
character than usual occupying more time in theirmiddot cure The other skin diseaecs were not either num~ous or imp9rtant I t
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMEN1AL DISEAsEs-Oraer SDiseases of Old People - - The cases of debility were more numerous tHan usual the benches of magistrates in Melbourne arid suburbs being
obliged to send such cases to the gaol the Benevolent Asylum not having room fOI them One old llan died from debility conscqu~nt on prevjous disease of liver
bull
CLASS V-VIOLENoE-Order I-Accident or Negligence1 bull 1 - I bull
The fractures in thi~ ordel were very few and all occurred preione to entering the gaol The contusions wo~nd~ and bullbullbull tbull iI)
sprains were more numerous than usual but all wereof a trivial nature
W MoCREA Chief Medical Officer
bullbullbull
PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
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A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
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Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
I
I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
-
9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
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Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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RETURN OF DISEASES
MELBOURNE GAOL
RETURN or Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Gaol during the Year 1872
DIseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases Cynanche bullbullbull Erysipelas Erythema bullbullbull Carbuncle bullbullbull Mumps bullbullbull Diphtheria Pertussis Influenza Varicella Dysentery Rheumatism Diarrhrea bull
Order 2-Enthetic Disc(UJcs SyphiJs Gonorrhrea Phimosis Stricture
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Delirium rremens
_ Alcoholism
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Thrush bull Ascarides Tenia Scabies Porrigo
Total Class I
CLASS II-CONSTI1UlIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases ltEdema
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Scrofula Hremoptysis Phthisis Abscess
Total Class II CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
bullbull
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System
Softening of the Brain Otitis
Apoplexy Paralysis Insanity Ditto (Temporary or Supposed) Chorea bull Epilepsy bull Convulsions Ncurllgia Ophthalmia
Order S-Diseases if the Organs of Ci~clation
Disease of the Heart
Order 3-Diseases of tke Respirashytory Organs
Bronchitis Pneumvnia Asthma
t
S I ~ 1lg22 fO ~-s ei ~ ~ smiddot ~ ~I zt t~ ~~I ~~ DlBenses
i~ s~ ~8 ~~ ~S o
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Days - shy
40 4 i 7 2middot 2 5 11 2 5 1 16 4 10
63 4 3 10
13 4 106 13 139 4 2 143
middot42 22 39 9
1 23 11 17
]60 4 174 2
2 7 8 1 2
89 3 bullbullbull
middotmiddotmiddot~I-middotshybullbullbull I 913 6 3 0-32
I
8
5 4 4
28
10 7
26 7
2
50
---1--1--shy
1--1_=_ 2
1 8 1 1l 11
2 19 3 23
24 13 45 9
2 59 15 1 1
26
7471
45 14
5 7
147 9 1 14 b 2
487
100shy
50
100
068
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISIHSEIshy
continued Order 4-Diseases elf the Digestive
Organs Hremorrhoids Stomatitis Hernia llets Fistula Prolapsus Ani Dyspepsia Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases elf the Organs
Enuresis Diuresis
bull bull bull
Urinary
Order G-Dise(UJes of the Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Order 7-Dise(UJes of the Locomoshytive System
Arthritis Nemosis
Order 8-Diseases of the lntegushy mentary System
Phlegmon Ulcer Eczema Psoriasis Acne Urticaria Lichen Herpes Chilblains
Total Class III
CLASS iV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-Diseases of Adults Leucorrh(lja bullbullbull Menonhagia Parturition
Order 3-Diseases of Old People Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence fractures and Contusions Sprains Dislocation Wounds bullbull
bull
Order 5-Execution Hanging
Total CI~ss V
Total of all Classes
l5 bull ~ igg io ~ ~~ s~ ~ ~ w ~~ ~~ t4~ zS ai yen~ 3 t~ ~~ ~3 ~S ~S
Days
8 6 5 I) 6 3
37 2 4 53 2 11
248 5 2 8
3 7 2 5
1middot 16
26 14 3 3
94 8 83 17 18 13 19 19 10 12
3 5 5 5 5 19 1 22
~49 9 4 0421--- shy13 10 3 5 4 13
14 14 1 7l4
34 11 1 294
42 8 SO 9 4 13
60 7
1 100
137 8 1 073 ---1shy207~ 7 11 053
Average dally numellcn strength of establishment 441 Deaths per cent of ditto bull 249 Cases of sickness per cent of ditto 47029
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REMARKS
The average daily number of wardera anp prieoners in the gaol during the year 1872 was 441 being a decrease on the prevIous year of 42 There is however II great increase in the general average for ten years This is owing to the retention of all tile female prisoners in the gaol instead of sending them to Pentridge lhe number of cases of sickness which were under treatshyment amounted tu 2074 II number smaller thun that treated ill the previous year but in grcllter pioportion to the nnmbers in thegaol not only of the previous year hut of the ten years averllge thc cases of sickness per cent of the number ofpersons in the gaol averaging duriug the ten years 418 whilst in 1872 it was 470
lho mortality in 1872 was considerably less than in 1871 amlless thau during the ten previoUs years the percentage of deaths for those years averaging 39 whilst in 1872 it was onlY33
The gaol during the year was very healthy nearlyall the seriousillness being attributable to causes external to the gaol
CLAampifZYMOTI~ DISEAsEs-Order l-Mtas11atic Disease~bull
Th~ di~~~ses of this order were with one exception less numerous and importllnt ~IHin usual This ~eeption was dillrrhma ofwhlCh dIsease 189 eases occurred and of them two died-one was an old woman WITo had ltreached the natural term of life undthe oth~rwas anirifantoftwo months old WIO had been ill soon after it was born and whose malady resisLed all treat-we Theea~s of w~ooping~ough weregenerally tmctable to trcatent
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Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
bull VenereaFIliBeas~s especiallygoporrhCl18werJl less numerous than during th~ preceding year Cnsideri~g the Class ~f pnsoners admitted into the gaol the amount ltf venereal disease isvclY small rhe dryness of theclimutehastnostlikelj a good effcct in diminidhing the spread of thes~ diseases Imiddot
bullbull - _1 bull 9 ~ 1 ~
z I i Order 3Dietic Di~eases
The number of cases which resulted from intemperance was asusual very great the CWles of delirium tremens exceedshying those of the previous year by 28 there was however only one death-a IllOst ~xtraordinary small mortality from thje dISCWlC J
bull ~ t I
I bull -t Order i Parasitic Diseases
c Ii l I The principal disease in tjlisorder is itch of-which there were 89 CWles Itig rmarkable that several incorrigible vagrants
whoare fraquentlYsent Withe gaol though cured wiils~in confinement always return affected with tho same disease 1
i I CL~SS IICoNsTiT~TIONAL D~llAsEslOrder 2Tubercular Diseases -
The numbe~ of cas~s~f Phthisis in th~ g~OI d~rini ~~~ year 1872 w~s I~Sg than usual being onlyfourin ok Two of these how~ver were fatal both occnrred in young wOinen and the disease was ih Lhelat stage orradmission to tlie gilo~
I
I I CLASS III-LOOALDlSlilASEB-Order l-~se~~f of the Vervous Systeln bull 1 t bull bull bullbull gt bull I I ~ bull bull bull i
O~ thesedis~ases tlJe CWles ofmiddotepilepsy middotand neuralgia weremore numerous Lh~n during 1871 whilst those of)n~ljnity and ophthalmia were less riumerous One case of brain disease in ri tnan aged 30in which softening of the brain invohing the optic nerve occurred which provedfatal the diseasd being of oI4~stllnding AilOt~er fatal case was one qf apoplexy in
which dellth was caused by an extensive clot ofblood-in a woman 50 yearsltld A child 9months old was attacked with eonshyvulsions and died in II few hours ~ I I
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~~ l 11 Order-S-Diseases of 1lespiratotg tTgans ~J bull bull bull I bull
The)aSes of bronchitis which occupy ~ large space in this order were less nnmerous than nsrial The fatalcasa occurred in a child ~ho previously had whooping-cough and was a long tiIUe under treatment
~ ~ -i I Order 4-Diseases of the Dgelive Organs
~ ~~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~ j ~ j 1lt The princip~l diseaSe in this order was dyspepsia of which there were 248 cascs These occurred principally among the
middotfemales being the result of sedentary occupation and of previous-abuse of alcoholie middotfluids they were very amenable to treatment
I I
J i I ~r shybull I I lt Order 7-Iiseases of tIle Locomtltive System bull
i ~ ThecaBesof arthritig(acute rheumatism) were coiliparatively I)umerouS and more severe than usual they ~llh~~~verbull
yielded ~ the treatment adopted I
-i i Order 8 bull Diseases of the jntegumeniary System r) to + - middotThe-number of boils and ulcers under treatment was as usual very numerous and the ulcers w~re gener~ny 9f a worse
character than usual occupying more time in theirmiddot cure The other skin diseaecs were not either num~ous or imp9rtant I t
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMEN1AL DISEAsEs-Oraer SDiseases of Old People - - The cases of debility were more numerous tHan usual the benches of magistrates in Melbourne arid suburbs being
obliged to send such cases to the gaol the Benevolent Asylum not having room fOI them One old llan died from debility conscqu~nt on prevjous disease of liver
bull
CLASS V-VIOLENoE-Order I-Accident or Negligence1 bull 1 - I bull
The fractures in thi~ ordel were very few and all occurred preione to entering the gaol The contusions wo~nd~ and bullbullbull tbull iI)
sprains were more numerous than usual but all wereof a trivial nature
W MoCREA Chief Medical Officer
bullbullbull
PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
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A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
-
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
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Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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REMARKS
The average daily number of wardera anp prieoners in the gaol during the year 1872 was 441 being a decrease on the prevIous year of 42 There is however II great increase in the general average for ten years This is owing to the retention of all tile female prisoners in the gaol instead of sending them to Pentridge lhe number of cases of sickness which were under treatshyment amounted tu 2074 II number smaller thun that treated ill the previous year but in grcllter pioportion to the nnmbers in thegaol not only of the previous year hut of the ten years averllge thc cases of sickness per cent of the number ofpersons in the gaol averaging duriug the ten years 418 whilst in 1872 it was 470
lho mortality in 1872 was considerably less than in 1871 amlless thau during the ten previoUs years the percentage of deaths for those years averaging 39 whilst in 1872 it was onlY33
The gaol during the year was very healthy nearlyall the seriousillness being attributable to causes external to the gaol
CLAampifZYMOTI~ DISEAsEs-Order l-Mtas11atic Disease~bull
Th~ di~~~ses of this order were with one exception less numerous and importllnt ~IHin usual This ~eeption was dillrrhma ofwhlCh dIsease 189 eases occurred and of them two died-one was an old woman WITo had ltreached the natural term of life undthe oth~rwas anirifantoftwo months old WIO had been ill soon after it was born and whose malady resisLed all treat-we Theea~s of w~ooping~ough weregenerally tmctable to trcatent
-1
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
bull VenereaFIliBeas~s especiallygoporrhCl18werJl less numerous than during th~ preceding year Cnsideri~g the Class ~f pnsoners admitted into the gaol the amount ltf venereal disease isvclY small rhe dryness of theclimutehastnostlikelj a good effcct in diminidhing the spread of thes~ diseases Imiddot
bullbull - _1 bull 9 ~ 1 ~
z I i Order 3Dietic Di~eases
The number of cases which resulted from intemperance was asusual very great the CWles of delirium tremens exceedshying those of the previous year by 28 there was however only one death-a IllOst ~xtraordinary small mortality from thje dISCWlC J
bull ~ t I
I bull -t Order i Parasitic Diseases
c Ii l I The principal disease in tjlisorder is itch of-which there were 89 CWles Itig rmarkable that several incorrigible vagrants
whoare fraquentlYsent Withe gaol though cured wiils~in confinement always return affected with tho same disease 1
i I CL~SS IICoNsTiT~TIONAL D~llAsEslOrder 2Tubercular Diseases -
The numbe~ of cas~s~f Phthisis in th~ g~OI d~rini ~~~ year 1872 w~s I~Sg than usual being onlyfourin ok Two of these how~ver were fatal both occnrred in young wOinen and the disease was ih Lhelat stage orradmission to tlie gilo~
I
I I CLASS III-LOOALDlSlilASEB-Order l-~se~~f of the Vervous Systeln bull 1 t bull bull bullbull gt bull I I ~ bull bull bull i
O~ thesedis~ases tlJe CWles ofmiddotepilepsy middotand neuralgia weremore numerous Lh~n during 1871 whilst those of)n~ljnity and ophthalmia were less riumerous One case of brain disease in ri tnan aged 30in which softening of the brain invohing the optic nerve occurred which provedfatal the diseasd being of oI4~stllnding AilOt~er fatal case was one qf apoplexy in
which dellth was caused by an extensive clot ofblood-in a woman 50 yearsltld A child 9months old was attacked with eonshyvulsions and died in II few hours ~ I I
~ I ~
~~ l 11 Order-S-Diseases of 1lespiratotg tTgans ~J bull bull bull I bull
The)aSes of bronchitis which occupy ~ large space in this order were less nnmerous than nsrial The fatalcasa occurred in a child ~ho previously had whooping-cough and was a long tiIUe under treatment
~ ~ -i I Order 4-Diseases of the Dgelive Organs
~ ~~ I ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~ j ~ j 1lt The princip~l diseaSe in this order was dyspepsia of which there were 248 cascs These occurred principally among the
middotfemales being the result of sedentary occupation and of previous-abuse of alcoholie middotfluids they were very amenable to treatment
I I
J i I ~r shybull I I lt Order 7-Iiseases of tIle Locomtltive System bull
i ~ ThecaBesof arthritig(acute rheumatism) were coiliparatively I)umerouS and more severe than usual they ~llh~~~verbull
yielded ~ the treatment adopted I
-i i Order 8 bull Diseases of the jntegumeniary System r) to + - middotThe-number of boils and ulcers under treatment was as usual very numerous and the ulcers w~re gener~ny 9f a worse
character than usual occupying more time in theirmiddot cure The other skin diseaecs were not either num~ous or imp9rtant I t
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMEN1AL DISEAsEs-Oraer SDiseases of Old People - - The cases of debility were more numerous tHan usual the benches of magistrates in Melbourne arid suburbs being
obliged to send such cases to the gaol the Benevolent Asylum not having room fOI them One old llan died from debility conscqu~nt on prevjous disease of liver
bull
CLASS V-VIOLENoE-Order I-Accident or Negligence1 bull 1 - I bull
The fractures in thi~ ordel were very few and all occurred preione to entering the gaol The contusions wo~nd~ and bullbullbull tbull iI)
sprains were more numerous than usual but all wereof a trivial nature
W MoCREA Chief Medical Officer
bullbullbull
PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
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A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
-
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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DayCLASS ilL-LOCAL DISEABEB-
continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
I
I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
~ i
CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
-
All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
bullbullbull
PENTRIDGE STOCKADE Ii I
RETURN of Diseases and Deatlis at the Penal Establishment Pentlid~e during the Year 1872 bull
CLASS I~ZYMOTIC DuiEASES
Order i-Miasmatic Diseases ElYsipelas bullbull Hoils and Carbuncles Influenza Cynanehe bullbull Febricula Scarlatina Colonial Fever Dysentery DialThOla Rheumatism Lumbago Vaccination Ague I
shy
Order 2 Enthetic Diseases Syphilis GononhOla Con dolym ata Strictureoof the Urethra Dysuria bullbullbull
Order 3-Dietic Diseases Voluntary Starvation
Total Class I
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Anremia Rheumatic Gout ltEdema I Carcinoma of Pylorus and Liver Tllffior
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Hremoptysis bullbullbull Abscess bull
Total ClassII 1
CLASsI1I-LoCAL DISEASES
Order l-Diseases of tll~ Nervous System
Congestion of the Brain Otitis bullbullbull
~rsfimiddot Epilepsy Brain Disease Ophthalmia Hypochondriasis Deafness Neuralgia Dementia
Order 2-Diseaseiofthe Orgausof Circulation
Heart Disease Endocarditis Syncope ~ Aneurism of Aorta Fibrinousdeposit in arch of orta
Days
3 10 8 6
60 7 7 9 2 0 3 22 bull 2 28 1
n 16 31 0 20 8 8 3 7 0
1 3
4 21
1 6 1(i I 11 3 3
_i I~ -=-1_ 193 8 l 002
6 3 10 17 1 16 1 114 1 lOO 1 9
2 88 1 00 4 i 9 j
- shy27 20 2 74J
------ shy
A-elage daily numericalstrengthofthe establishment Number of cases of sickness per cent thereof Number of deaths per cent on ditto ditto
bullbullbull
50 100
716 7527 111
CLASS IlL-LOCAL DISEASES- continued
Order 3-Disellses of the Bespishyratory Systemmiddot
Bronchitis Pleurisy Lung Disease
-sthma - Epistaxis
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestiveorgansmiddot -
Hremorlhoids Hernia bull Fistula Stomach Disease (Organic) Ulccration ofIntestiries middotDyspepsia Acutemiddot and Chronic
(illcludinl cuses of coliey1 pain imd Irritation of bowels)
Jaundice bull
Order 7~Disease8 oj the Joints Diselt1sed Femur Sciatica
I j
-
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Ulcers Skin Diseuses (Eczcma Acne
paOliasis) t
Total ClassTII
bull ~ i ~ J
CLASS JV--DE~ELOlllEISTAL 1 PISEASES
Order 3--Deve1opmental Diseases of Old People -
Old Age bull
Order 4-Deveopmentaz Diseases ofNutrition
Debility 18
Total Class IV
CLASS V~VIOLENOE
Order l-Accident ~r Negligence 0
Iltra(~nte of libula (Potts) SpralU bullbull Burns and Scalds bullbullbull Other Accidents bull
Order 4-Suicide Attempted ~uicide bullbullbull
Order ~- Violenc~ Injury to Brain from violence
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
11 1 8 8 2
12 4 5 1 1
158 1
1 3
4
3
8 15 45 53 2
2 60-66
9 4 6
00 8middot
4 13
20 17
14
Ii ~
272107i 183 ---I~ -----shy
8
Numbcl of cases treated in establl~hmcnt-Internal 540 External2214 2i84
Averagedaily number ofpatientB in Hospital
21
13
6
7
7 1 1 2 8 2 6
6 3
() 1
6 1 2 2 1
9 3 3
25 4
92 67 3
4 7
220
11 6 5 3 4
1
1 1
~ 8~ 20
1 17
43 10
4 13
1 361 1
-1-- shy27 28
REMARKS
Among these patients (Internal) ewere two cases of colonial fever (one of which terminated fatally) and three sporadic easos of mild scarlatina bull
Theie wiis no jlafticularly severe accident No capital surgical operation except one tlephiDing- fhi latter case was one of uepresio~ in celltrll of left parietal caused by a blow from the ClAW of a hammer inflihed on 29th VeceDlvcf IS71 Epileptiu
19
8
fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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DayCLASS ilL-LOCAL DISEABEB-
continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
I
I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
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Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
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U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
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CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
-
9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
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fits freqnent severe and easily brought on with paralysis of the leftlower extremity were the results of the injury On 29th August 1872 (eight months subsequent to injury) the depressed bone Iremoved by trephining The fits never once recurred after the operation and the paralysis disappeared The man is now in good health meutalllnd bodilY only he cannot yet standhot weather or much disturbance of temper
There were foUt cases of attempted suicide There was one case of insanity which was removed to Yarm Bcnd bull
There were eight deaths during the year -One a warder from colonial fever a prisoner from phthisis two from diseased lungs one from aneurism of aorta j one from fibrinous deposit in arch of aOltll one from diseased brain i and one from cancer of stomach and liver
Indigestion influenza and rheumatism made uR as usual the great bulk of the external cases All officers and prisoners connected with the Stockade who had not been successfully vaccinated within the previous threeyea~s were vaeciha~ed during this year
J REED MDPentridge Hospital 25th January 1873 Resident Surgeon
PENAL HULK SACRAJIlENTO RIVER YARRA I
RETURNof Dis~ases and Deaths on board the PenaL HuLk Saclal1umto during the Year 1872
Diseases
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Chicken-pock Fever Carbuncle and Boils Influenza and Catarrh
Dysentery Diarrhooa bull
Chronic Rheumatism
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases Syphilis bullbullbull Gonorlhooa
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Worms
1 7 2 27 5 4
16 3 6 9
31 5 40 6
1 2 1 24
3 ]2
CLASS iL-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases Phthisis Pulmonalia Others including Abscess ampc
Total Class II
CLASS IIILOOAL DISEAESS
Order I-Diseases of tile Nervous System
Neuralgia Odontalgia ampc 10 4
Order 3-Diseasea oj the Respira tory Organs
Bronchitis Chronic 14 7
Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Organs
Hremorrhoids 6 10 Hernia(Inguinlll) 2 1 Constipation 4 3 Stomach Disease (Dy spepsiaampe) 85 3 Jaundice 571
DIseases
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DayCLASS ilL-LOCAL DISEABEB-
continued
Order 5-Diseases of tIle Urinary shy1 50 Organs
Irritable Bladder 1 ]0
Order G-Diseases of the OrgaTUI of Generation
Enlarged Testicles 4 2
Order 8-Disease of the Integu melltary System
Ulcers 2 ]2 Eczema Psoriasis ampc 6 8
Total Class III ]34 4 Total Class I l 095--____- -- shy
1 5
CLASS IV-DEVELOlllENTAL DISEASES
Order 3-Developmental Diseases of Old People
Old Age 2
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition Debility 3
--middot--1---1--shyTotal Class IV 5 8
CLASS V-VwrENCE
Order I-Accident or Negligence Fmctures and Contusions Wounds Scald
Total Class V
66 3 1
70
9 6
24
9
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Total of allClasBcs 320 1 031
Average daily number of prisoners and officers on board 102 Number of cases of sickness pel cent of ditto 31372 Number of deaths per ccnt Of ditto 098
REMARKS
The number of cas~ of sickD~Es an board the Sacramento in 1872 is exactly one i~ excessf that of1871-~20 to 319 There is a decrease in the occurrence of zymotic diseases whibt there is II conSiderable 10crease ID the diseases of the
digestive organs and in fractures and contusions bull As in 187] there has been but one death ThiS occurred III a case of fever 10 II young man of debilitated constitution The immediate c~uqe of death was rupture of the intestines
AND PLUMMER MD Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
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I3~ ~ e-l00 lt-ltAlt-lt0 i --------------------------~I-----
Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
-
9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRI~L SCHOOL ST KILDA ROAD
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Melbourne Industrial School St Kilda Road during the Year 1872
o ~ ~ DiseasesDiseases lu~1 ~~
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Days Days CLASS I-ZnwTw DISEASES Order 2-Diseases of the Organs
of CirculationOrder I-Miasmatic Diseases 2 152Heart Disease7
Measles bullbullbull 5Varicella
635 Order 3-Diseases of the Repishy271Scarlatina bullbull ratory System 2 15 1 50Diphtheria 38 18 1 26Bronchitis 414 1 7lCynanche Pneumonia 1 13 1 lOObull 1 45 yphoid Fever
l2 57Whoopingmiddotcough 27 1 1001 Order 4-Diseases cifthe Digestive 620Infantile Fever Organs3 36Boils 2 1 2 100Uastro-duodenitis 1 12Catarrh 1 25 1 100Gastritis 1 6Dyscntery 5 4Dyspepsia 35 19 llDiarrhcea 3 19Jaundice 2 7
Ophthalmia Rheumatism
224 25 Order 7-Diseases of the Locomoshy1 28Fistula Lachrymalis tive System Mumps J 20 3 3 100
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Necrosis
Order 8-Diseasc$ of the Integumiddot o Congenital Syphilis 1 15 mentary System 4 17Condylomata 10 41
Phlegmon Paronychia
12 If)Order 4-Parasitic Diseases Eczema 14 44178 51 bullbullImpetigo 8 10Urticaria 14 26 Scabies bull Pemphigus I r 80
Ringworm 15 65 I ----- shy Total Class III 117 37 7599 31 16 26Tota Class 1
-------- shyCLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DlSEASES
DISEASES Order 4-Diseases of NutritionOrder 1 Diathetic Diseases 21 76 7 333Marasmus and Debility8 285Cancrum Oris 28 43 -----shy
Total Class IV 21 76 7 88SOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases ---1-1shyMorbus COXal 1 1150 bull Abscesses 31 48 I 32
CLASS V-VIOLElWE----shy 60 47 9 15 Order I-Accident or Negligence
Dislocation of Elbow Joint Total Class II
1 22 Sprains bull 2 8
CLASS JU-LoOAL DISEASES Wounds bullbullbull 5 25 Order I-Diseases of the Nervous 1 120 Burn
4 18 Chorea
System Scald 1 50
Convulsions Total Class V 13 Otorrhcea
3 2 1 333 12 127
Congestion of Brain Total of all Classes 8106 16 1 166
26
84 39 48
Average daily numerical strength of establishment 437 Number of casesof sickness per cent of ditto 18535 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 892
REJoiARKS
The zymotic class as usual has furnished the larger number of cases in the Melbourne Industrial School during the year1672
Ophthalmia at one time 80 troublesome is now fortunately at a low ebb and invariably of a mild character being in almost every instance merely cases of simple conjunctivitis which yield readily to the measures adopted
There were two cases of diphtheria-one achild under three years of age Jl11d a fatal issue the other an adult female attendant terminated favorably The sulphur treatment combined with carbolic adJ was mainly instrumental in her recovery
All cases of measles mumps and infantile fever ended favorably On the other hand a few cases of diarrhOla having attacked young children of strumous habit terminated fatally bull
Diseases of the parasitic order~ and principally of the impetiginous type claim the second place in point of numbers A few cases of scabies generally easy of cure were somewhat protracted hy having been complicated with the more obstinate affections of the same order
I will take this opportunity of stating that the prevalence of diseases of this eharncter in the Melbourne Industrial Schools is owing to the fact that they always have been the receiving houses for all children under a certain age male and female amongst whom we find th~se diseases most prevalent On their admission to the schools many are found suffering more
01 less from eruptive diseases and as they must be cured before transfer to any other school it necessarily follows that the MelbourneKchools come in for a larger share of these compl11ints than apyother
Class II-Constitutional Discases-An abscess occurred in a young infant When the child wag committed to the school the abseess was in the incipient stage it was ~ituated on the back deep-seated and remarkable for its enormous size j there was a profuse discharge of II sanious character and Ih child died from complete exhaustion after a period of great suffering
1 ] IIfcGAURAN Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
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Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
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U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
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1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
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CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
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MELBOURNE INDUSTRIAL NURSERY SCHOOL imiddot
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Melboulne dlldustrial Nursery School from the 16th August to - the 31st December 1872
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CLASS ILZYl1OTIC DISEASES
Order I-Miasmatic Disease~
yarilella
Whoopi~g~co~gli
InfanWe Fever
Krysipella shy
Boil
Diarrhoaa bull
Ophthalmia f
I t
Or~er 4Par~itic Diseases
Impetigp
Sc~bils -
Ri~gworm
11
32
17 3
5
26 Ii
48
CLASS III-LoCll DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of-the Nervous Ssterl
Otqrrboaa 5 44 ConvUlsions 1 1 1 100
Congestion of Brain 3 11 2 666
Order3-Diseases 0fthe Respirashy181 tory tystem
Bron~hitis 0
~pstaxis
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushymentary System
Eczema
iotal Class III
7 20 1 142
middot1 4
19 I ---------shy
18 22 4 222
4 Total Class I 76 23 52 CLASSIV-DEVELOPMENTAL I DISEASES1
Order ~-Diseases of Nutrition bull
Mnrasmu~ and pebility 321414 31 CLASS II-COgtSTITuTIoNAr~ -shy _-1__-1___
jDISEASES 14 31 3 21-4Total Class IV ~ ~ ~ 1 r
Order t-Diathetic Diseas~ ~ l i
Cancrum Oris 7 20 itCUSS V-VIOLENCEbullo
JC~~cru~ ~~I~i 1 11 l 100 Order l-Accident or Negligence
o Woundof Scalp ~ Bum Order 2--TubercularmiddotDiseases
-l------I-shy7 34A~~ce~ses ~ 2 10 Total Class V
Total of all Classes 125 24 12 96Total Class II
~ lt bull 1
REMARKS r _ r ~
I
The ~Industrial Nursery School was ~pened on the 16th August chiefly for children under five years Of age but gir1s of more advanced years are also admitted into the institution l~
rhe majo1i~y of the case which ended fatally bas occurred in infants undersb m~I1ths old ~ho notwithstanding that they have had the advantage ofhiivi~g been w~tnursed in the institution dropped off at that early age from constitutional debility and in seyeral instances from n~glect previous to their eommittal to the scnool j i
rhe syste~ of wet-nursing theinfants outside the institution is now ~e~n~ ~d~~t~d ~nd so far lhas been a~t~nded with success
I J1 tmiddot bull bullbull bull 0
On looking over these returns it will be seen that nearly twotbir~s of all cases treated and one-third of the fata cases have occurred in class I zymotic discases ophthalmia in the form of simIle conjunctivitis and parsitie diseases bull chiefly of Ib~ impetiginous or~er contributing the largest share
1 1 F McGAI(RAN Medical Officer
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
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1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
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CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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SuNBURY INDlJSTRIAL SCHOOL AND REFORMATORY
RET~N of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Scbool and Ref~r~ato~y Sunbury during th~ Year 1872
I i
~ 5 Joatl Q-0 gt0
s~ $~ middot~Btf~ t ~~ 100li~ S ~ S ~~~
tE-oi fDiseases zlt I~~0gt 13 ~ig~ mI I ~illDiseases tue)~~m_ if-l 0 -eo fl -
S3i () I=l a d ~= $ S~ ilt30 = ~o 0(1) 00 ~ltl i il 8gt=l A$80 ltl E-ltgt=l AO-----
Days ID~~ CLASS UtLOOAL DISIIUESshyCLAS~ l+-ZnfoTlO DLJEA8Es
continued Older I-Miasmatic Diseases
Boil 1 3 9 Order 4-Digestive System i 19 10Catarrh and Cynanche 2 14 ~ Jaundice 2 6middotDiarrhQ1a bull 2 8Gastralgia 2 22229 14Dysentery 1 47Hernia 21 20 Ophthalmia (Acute)
Fever 1 45 0 Order 6-Generativ~ System
Paraphymosis Rheumatism 2 17
91 Order4-Para6itic Diseases I I shy )
Scabies an~ Ringworm of the Order 7-Locorrwtive System bull Scalp ampc i 504 15
- --1- 1 90 Ankle JointmiddotDisease 191 1Knee Joint Disease
Total Clns~ I 561 i 15 I 3 9 Housemaids Knee I 182 1 100Caries 1I-I
bull I CLASS 1I-CONSTITUTIONAL Order S-IntegumentaTY System
DISEASES 14 ~Chilblains 16
Order 2-Tuberc~lar Disease 74 Onychia 1 16 21 Ulcer 2 34 Abscess I L -
Warts 1 23 -- shy shyI ---- -- shy21 Total Clas~ IT 16
I 2 285 Total C~ ITI 70 40
bull l CLASS ITlLoCAL DISEASES
bull - t bull I ~
CLASS Y-VIOLENCE
Epilepsy Order l-Nervus Syste1fl
Order i AccidehtandNegligence Cephalgia
3 82 92 Colltusihns bullbullbull L 11 1 2 1001Meningitis (Tubercular) Fracturc (of Forearm) 1 29middot 30 44Corneitis Granular Lids ampc BulUs ahd Scalds fi 32
bull~ I Tobacco Poisoning (Accidental) 1
3
15Wounds bullbull 4 I
Order 2-Circulatory Sdstem 209 1 Hromorrhagie Diath~sis
22 Total Class V i2 ~ i 1 ~ ~ I
Order 4-Respiratory S~stem bull 17 4 0-60Total of all Classes 6591 12Epistaxis
Ave~age daily strength ~f ~slablishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
Number of deaths per cent of ditto
REMARKS
The above cases do not jncl~de those who received treatment external to the hospital
Four deaths oc~nrred during IS72 Two of these were caused by dysentery an outbreak of which occurred in the school in the months of February and March There was no local cause to account for this oisorder which prevailed also in the district
at the ~ame time I
OCthe remaining two deaths one took place from scrofulous diseaseof the brain the other from caries which had been
developing for several yearsmiddot
It should also be mentioned that Sunbury school rereives invalid clJildren from other institutions especially the NellJ(J1l
as referred to by the inspector in bis report for the year 1869 - In the Nelson not Ol1ly are tbe children well lodged but
when any of their numbermiddotbecome seriously ill they are recommended for removal and transferredto Sunbliry And not only
are the seriously ill sent from the Nelson to Sunbury but the strongest and most healthy of the SllnburYboys are sent to
the Nelson A SHIELDS
Medical Officer
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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GEELONG INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
RETURN of Diseases lind Deaths at the Industrial Sch~ol Geelong during the Year 1872
i
Ci - I ~~ sect]l i~o 0 ~ Ac l-ok
Diseases Eolt
~ jj i~ I
U lt1gt I GSQ
~3 A~Eolt 0
Days
CLASS i-ZnloTlC DISEASES
Order l-Miasmatic Diseases Measles 9 8 Mumps 16 9 Catarrh 9 7 Dysentery 5 7 Diarrhcea ~ 2 6 Remittent lever 88 12 1 11 Conjunctivitis 103 8
Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bull 2 97 Order 4-Parasitic Diseases
-10
0
2 Worms _ -- shy
Total Class I 236 10 1 042 ---- shy - shy -- shy
Cuss H-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
Order 1-iJiathetic piseases
Noma 2 7 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Abscess 33 5 ---shy - shy
Total Class II 36 - shy - shy - shy -- shy
CLASS In-LOCAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of Nervoull System
Neuralgia 1 6
Ord~r 3-Diseases of Respiration
Bronchitis 7 7 Order 4-Disorders of Digestion
Colic
4 1 Dyspepsia 4 2 Jaundice 5 5
~ 0 I ~~ ~o 0 eo g~ lt
Diseases ~lt l~~ ~~01
Eolt 0 _-------shy ---I-
Days
CLASS IlL-LoCAL DISEASEB-continued
Order 5-Diseases of Urinary Organs
Ischuria 1 1 Order 7-Diseases ofLocmnotion
Periostitis 3 8 Caries 10 1
Ordcr 8-Diseases of Inieguments
Chilblains S 7 Skin Diseases 110 40
I
1153 Total Class III 3Q ----shy
J
CLASS lV-DEVEWIMENTAL DISEASES
Order 2-DiSeascs of Adults
Paramenia 1
Order 4-Diseases ofNutrition
Debility
Total Class IV
CLASS V-VIOLENCE
Order I-Accident
Wounds Burns
Total Class V
lotal of all Classes
14
-shy 16
-- shy
12
16
~
27
-- shy 466
8
i 36
84
--
4 10
- shy7
17
lt 1=lli ~ Oll0
fS Eolt
=~~gi ~8 0 AiEolt A - shy -- shy
0
I
- shy -- shy
bull bullbull i
i---- shy
- bull t bull __i __
1 r 021
-
Av~rage daily numerical strength of establishment Nnmber of cases of sickness per cent of ditto
490 9510
Number of deaths per pent of ditto 020
REMARKS
The total amount of sickness at these schools has been about one-third less than last year and the mortality is
proportionally smallas I lost but one child which died from exhaustion after low fever The death was ill Myers-street schooL bull
These schools possess an advantage DOt enjoyed I helieve by any other industri~1 school ill the colony-that of seashy
bathinj( within ten minutes walk A bathhouse is rented exclusively fur the use of the children who enjoy the bathiug
greatly and sccm to tlllve allthe better for it
The children were singularly free from chet nnd throat complninte notwithstanding the severity of the weathel at
various times
miAs T MACKIN MD
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
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BALLARAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLSshy
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Industrial Schools Ballarat during the Year 1872
os os ~o~iti ~ S~I~~stltgtoc ~io 081 iii0$ s ~-5 Ss~5 8~ Dis_esUDiseases ~~ ~ ~ i ~rOZ 0 -5n 0 5tl ~i3 3~ s il O iS1lI ~ 1gt0 0 Ao~3 ~Aq 0A Al~~ Days
CLASS I-ZYMOTIO DISEASBS Oays
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES-continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases 10 1Varicella Order 3-Dibulleases of the Organs6 8Quinsy of Respiration12 8Boil
2 7 Bronchitis 5 7 Fever ~2 6Parotitis Order 4 - Diseases tif the Digestive
Purpura Order 3-Dietic Diseases Organs303 2 14 Jaundice
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases 24 6Scabies 125 20 Impetigo Order 7-Diseases1 of the LocQ1Ioshy28 5Porrigo tive System
16 8Synovitis 80 13Total Class I -shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy- DISIliASES
CLASS IL-CONSTITUTIONAL mentary System
15 2 Whitlow Order 1-Diathetic Diseases 20 I 1 Ulcer 4 40Tumor 19 18 i Skin Diseases
I ----i---shyOrder 2-Tubercular Diseases
Total Class III 8Abscess 13 ~i~I-=-__
1-shy --i-shyTotal Class II I 17 15
-- ----shy - CLASS V-VIOLENOE
CLASS lII-LoOAL DISEASES Order I-Accident OT Negligence
Order I-Diseases f the Nervous System 15 3 Contusion 5 7 1 40 Wounds ~Otorrhrea
10 9 15 Burns and Scalds 6Ophthalmia 14 12 ------shyConjunctivitis 10 60 - Total Class V 144shyCorneitis 1 6Entropion 171 15 Total of all Classes 2 20Chorea
Average dllily numerical strength of establishment Cases of sickness per cent of ditto
There was no death
REMARKS
The sickuess during this year has been considerably less than during the year 1871 being (about) as 175 to 250
or threemiddottenths less
This is doubtless attributable in a great measure to the continued improved general health of the children from better
care and nourishment than they received before entering the school and also to the regular practice adopted at the suggestioll f the Chief Medical Officer of fumigating the wards with burning sulphur
Catarrhal ophthalmia which was so prevalent during the year 1870 has not reappeared and o(conjl1llctivitis therc have been only 14 cases as compared with 55 cases in 1871
There has been no fatal case of disease and po permanent organic disease of the eye resulting from any of the cases treated
RICHARD BUNCE Medical Officer
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
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9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
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All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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GEELONG GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths ~t the Gaol Geeiong during the Year 1872
1
1 6 f l 8 ~ 7 7shy3 14 6 10
lOmiddotI4middot1~
- shy - shy --1- shy
I-i--- --- shy
bull
~ )~ bull b
1 7----1shy
7
17 7 1 2 1 1 1 5
2 15
CLASS IIt-LoCAJ DISEASltSshycontinued
Order 4-Diseas~s ofDigestion
Herilia Colic Dyspepsia Piles
1 3
17 1
1 1 2 4
1 I
1 middotmiddot2
1 71 i
shy i
2 22 ~
55 5
bullbull li_
bull 1~7127 I I 1428 1------ shy
lt if
~ 7 27 l 1428
-- shy - shy - shy ---shy
9 2 ---- shy
Order 3-Dietic iDiseas~s 1 _ L
Delirium Tremens - i 1
I ~
Tot~l Class 1 ~ 1 ~
I (t ti r 1
cJABI Il--COlSTITJTIoNAL
~ i Pl~A8E8 ~
Qr4er2--Tub~Tcujal Dislfases
Aliscess
Tot~l CJas~ II
ImiddotCL~SS 111 ~o~A IiSEASE8
Oraer l-Dis~as~or the NervousSystem
Insanity bullbullbull 1JYsteria
Epilepsy bullbull Neuralgia
Order 2-Diseaes of Circulation
Heart DiscltSe
O~der S-Disealesmiddotoj Respiration
Br~nchiti8 bullbullbull 6
Order ~-DiseaJesof the Uinarv Organs
Isdhuri~ I I
Order 7-Diseases ojLocoTl1otion
Periostitis Caiies ~
Order B-Diseases of Integument t
Ulcer I bullbullbull
TotllJ Clas~ III
CLASS IV-DEvELoPMENTAL DISEASES
Order 4-Diseases of Nutrition
DeliiJity bullbull
I I
Total Class IV
Order l-Acci~ent
Aceide~t
Total Class V
Total of all Classes
-
9 2
100 8
Average daily numerical strength of estahlishment 35
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 28571
Nnmber of deatli~ per cent of ditto 285
l I REMARKS
I The sickness at the gaol is lessmiddot in this year thanlast by ltlcoqt sixty CRSPS or rather more than onemiddotthird Thllre has
been hut one delIth (from debility) showing a low rate of mortality ClUS T MACKIN MD
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
-
All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
17
SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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CASTLEMAINE GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Castlemaine Gaol during the Year 1872
shy I CVABS I-ZYMOlIO DISUSES
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases TypboidBever and Febricula )nfiuenza bull bull Dysentery bullbull Diarrb~a bull Cholera bullbullbull Rheumatism (Chronic) ~umps bullbull
Orderrr bull Enthetic Diseases Syphilis Qonorrhrea and Stricture
Order S-Dietic Diseases Delirium Tremens bullbullbull
Order 4-Parasitic Diseases r0rms bullbullbull
9 13 4 7 1
25 1
3 12
1
Daybull
12 5 5 4
IS 6 4
34 9
3
I middot2 6 i
bull Ci imiddot
7 I i
CLAS9 III-LoCAL DISEASESshycontinued
Order 4-Diseases tif the Digestive Organs
Piles Hernia Colic Dyspepsia Hrematemesis Hepatitis
Order 5-Diseases of the Urinary Organs
Ischuria
Order 6-Diseases oj middotthe Organs of Generation
Orchitis
Days
7 5 bullbull 2 11 44
11 7 1 9 2 66 150
I
2 bull 6
1 S
7
5 11
1 4 8 12
3 ~I -I 82 9 [21 244
Skin Disease
---- shy ----shy
6 s 1 166 ---------shy
6
14 1 6 1
22
194
6 1 166
6
16 6 I 1
1
6
8 3 154
1 Total ClassI 78
CLASS IL-CoNSTITUTIONAL
I DISEASES
Order 2-Tubercular Diseases bull Phthisis bullbull bullbullbull 1 Abscesses bullbullbull 5
Total Class II 6 Total Cl~ss m ___----- shy
CLASS IIl-LoOAL DISEASES
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous System I
Paralysis bullbull 1 Insanity 7 Epilepsy 2 Neuralgia - - 2 Ophthalmia 1
Vertigo bullbullbull 1 Deafness 3
I
Order 2-Diseases If the tif Circulation lt Disease of the Heart 2
Orderl S-Diseases tif theRespirashytorJ Systen bull Baryngltls 3
Bronchitis bullbull bull bullbullbull 8
Order 7-Diseases of the Locoshy7 i 1___ motive System
2
Arthritis Cariea
Order S-Diseases of the Integu mentary System
Boils bull Ulcers
CLASS IV-DlIVELOPl1ENTAL
DIlEASES
Order 4-Dieases of Nutrition2 1 100 Debility 9 5 Iotal Chiss IV6
12 7 Cuss V-VIOLEtCR4
Order I-Accident or Negligence Contusions Fractures bullbullbull
15 Wounds Bums
Total Class V )
Total of all CJasses7
Average daily numerical strength of establishment middot93 Number of cases of ickness per cent thereof 20860 Number of deaths per cent of dittomiddot 822
-
All the zymotic cases were of a mild character ex~p~ one of fever complicated with albuminuri~ The treatment of this
case extended to 44 days In class III occllrred two deaths one of paralysis caused by effnsion of serummiddot at the base of the
brain in a female exhausted by chronic rheumatism and ~link The other was one of two cases of acute hepatitis both ending
iu absceRs the fatal one opening into the pericardium the other into the bronchial tubes Hepatic congestion or derangement
was a marked symptom in a large number of cases treated for other diseases The third fatal Case was a Chinaman brought
into the ga01 in an exhausted conditiou through privation exposure and the excessive use of opium
rhe cases in the other classes were of a mild nature not deser~ilg of spe~ia noti~
rHOS McGRATH MD Gaol Surgeon
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
17
SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
----~------I----- shyDaysDays
CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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BALLARAT GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the (j-aol Ballarat luring the Yel-l 1872
1 I 0 el - -dlI 0 ~ ~dgj 0I~
ili 0 ~ cr~ I0 0 0 e-l ~-sect eDisease A-5 0 a8gt d DIseases ~ZE e Zol I ~g3 _c ~fS
Oll 5 ~S -~l1 0 -i =1gt0 ~~ ltil sogt0 00 080 q 8A ~d 80 ~~ 8A AlI 1-----shy
Days Days
CLASS I-ZlCMOTIO DISEASES CLASS III-LoCAL DISEASESshyI continued
Order I-Miasmatic Diseases CarbuneJe bullbull 1 12 Order 4-Diseases of the Digesshy Influenza 6 7 tive Organs Dysentery 15 5 Enteritis 1 15 Diarrhrea 8 5 Colic 1 4 Rheumatism 12 12 bullbull fIo
Dyspep~ia 6 8 Erysipelas 1 11 HepatitIS bull
7 18 Order 2-Eltthetic Diseaes
Syphilis Order 5-Diseases of tlte Urinary 1 13 OrgansGonorrhrel 4 15 Cystitis 3 8
Order 3-Dietic Diseases
Delirium Tremens 21 6 order 8-Diseuses of the IntegushymentalY System
Order 4-Partisitic Diseases Scabies 1 7 Ulcer 2 10 _ Skin Disease - shy 1 ~I~
Total Class I 70 7 Total Class Ill 42 11 bull --1--shy
CLASS II-CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES CLASS IV-DEVELOFMETAL DISEASES
Order I-Diathetic Diseases Cancer 1 57 Order 2-Developmental Diseases
of-Adults Order 2-Tubercular Diseases
Paramenia 1 21 Phthisis 1 i
3 Abscess 3 8
j Order 4-Deveiupmental Diseases Total Class II 5 of Nutrition 17
--1---shy Debility 3 6 1 3333 1__ ____
Total Clas~ IV 4 110 1 25CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASES ----I--i- shy
Order i-Disetises of tle Nervous System
CLASS V-VIOLENCEBrain Diseases 10 10
Order I-Accident or NegligenceOrder 2-Diseases of tlte Organs of Circulation Fracture 1 14
Aneurism 2 23 Sprain 4 11 i Wounds (Gunshot) 1 bull 23 bullbullbullOrder S-Diseases of tlte Respirashy ~-i---
tory System To41l Class V Bronchitis 8 1-- 13_ __1-shy8
12 1Pneumonia 1 Total of all Classes 127 I 9 I 1 078
Males AVErage daily numerical strength of establishment 615~ Females 1O~~
72U~ I
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto 17620 Number of deaths per cent of ditto 138
REMARKS
The only death which occurred was that of a Chinese who was admitted in themiddotadvanced stage of phthisis and who died from exhaustion and debility
RICHARD BUNCE
Surgeon of the Gaol
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SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
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CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
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JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
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f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
17
SANDHURST GAOL
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Gaol Sandhurat during the Year 1872
CLASS III-LOCAL DISEASBSshyCLASS I-ZYMOTIC DISEASES continued
Order I-Miasmatic Disell868 Order 4-Diseases oj the DigestiveDiplitheria bull 1 7 Organs bull
Cynanche middot6 10 Febricula 1 1 Hremorrhoids 7 4 Erysipelas 1 8 i Hernia 8 6 Carbuncle Boi ampc 6 9 Stomach Disease including Influenza Coryza Catarrh bullbullbull 38 4 Dyspepsia 39 3 Dysentery bullbullbull 14 8 2 1428 Liver Disease 1 10 Diarrhrea 16 4 1 625 Rheumatism bullbullbull 87 7 Others 19 4 Order 5-Diseases 0 the Urinary
Organs
Retention of Urine bullbull 1 2Order 2-Enthetic Diseases
Syphilis bullbullbull 17 20 Gonorrhrea Strillture 24 10 Order 7-Diseases 0 the Locomoshy
tive System
Ostitis 1 6Order 3-Dietic Disell8e8 Joint Disease 4 4 Alcoholism 41 3 Opium ~mokiug 8 8
Order 8--Diseases 0 the Integu mentaTY System
Order 4-Parll8itic Disell8e8 Ulcer Worms 5 6 Eczema
Skin Disease
Total Class 1 229 131
rotal Class III 96 6 8
4
CLASS n-CONSTITUTIONAL DISBASBS
CLASS IV-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASESOrder 2-Tuoercular Diseases
Scrofula 2 t4 Order 2-Dev Disell8es 0 Adults HremoptysiR 14DismenorrhreaOthers ~ 2~ 21-=shy
Total ClIISS II 6 16 Order 4-Diseases 0 Nutrition
Debility 2 18
17CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASBS Total Class IV 8
Order I-Diseases 0 the Nervous System
Insanity 1 8 CLASS V-VIOLENCE Convulsions bullbull 1 6 Neuralgia and others 21 li Order I-Accident or Negligence
Fractures and Contusions 8 19 Wounds bullbull 9 8Order 2 bull Diseases 0 the Organs 0
Circulation
Angina Pectoris 1 6 Order 4-Suicide Heart Disease 2 4 12 Cut Thf(lit 1
I
--1--shyOrder s-Diseases 0 the RespirashyTotal Class V 13 11tory System
Bronchitis 8 7 Asthma 1N 18 Total orall Classes 346 6 3 086
Average daily numerical strength of establishment
Number of cases of sickness per cent of ditto Number of deaths per cent of ditto
90
38444 883
No 12
JOHN CRUIKSHANK MD
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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BEEqHWORTH GAOJ
RE~~ Jf ])ie~S~B ~~ Deloth~ at the Beechworth Gaol during the Yt~ 1872 _
w bullbull _ _ g
Dieerues
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CLASS m-LoCAL DISEASESshyCLASS t-Z~OTIC DISEASES ~1 I continued
Order 1-Miasmatic Diseases O~der 3-Diseases of Ithe Respira- tory System 6Catarrh 6
4 8Dysentery bull 6 Diarlhllla bull 8 4 Ague bull bull 1 7
Pleurisy
Rheumatism bullbullbull 10 14 Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive Ophthalmiamp bullbullbull 5 8
j ~ Organs i bullbull 1 5 Herniamiddot u
1 2Ileus Order 2-Enthetic Diseases bull o 8 DYBp~psia bullSyphilis bullbullbull i bullbullbull 1 6A 2 20 bull
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs of Gonorrhllla
Generation Order 3-iDietic Diseases 1 14
A lcoholisn1 I bull middot1 Effects of Opium f
Orchitismiddot bullbull
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy
1 middot1 i I 1middotmentarySyslemOrder 4-Pardsitic Diseases 1 30
Worms J 20 3 Ulcer bullbull
bullbullbull bullbull 1 110 I Eczema middot---_I-I~
18 16 1Total Class III ~7 Total Class I 61
CLASS IT-DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES CLASS n-jqoN~TITUTI~lUL
DISEASES Order I-Dell Diseases of Chilshy1 1 dren I
Order l-Diatletic Diseases Teething _1_1__1_ ___ii~i_middot_ 1 100 I ilCancer 1middot + r
1 1Total ClaSB IV--1----- 120 1 100Total Class II 1
II PLASV-VIOLENCE
Order l-Accidelt orNegligence CLASS m-LOCAL DISEASES 1 bull 8 21Fractures and Contusions
I 1 14- Burns and Scalds Order l--Diseses of the Nervous System C
1 1004Apopl~xy t middotmiddot1 Order 4-Suicide 68~aralysis__ bullbull 2
Cut Throat7Insanity bullbullbull I 1 6~1 i )-shy Hang~ng 1 30Epilepsy -- shyTotal Class y ~ 22c r
lOrder 2-DiReases of the Orfanll ~ ~ ~i bull of Circulation I
21292Total of all Classes 2 t ~
I - DiseasesI
84 Average daily numerical strength of establishment 2-38 __ Deaths ~er cent of ditto -
109-5~ C~es o( 8ickne~s per cent of dittu I I
I I
shyThe fatal case of apoplcxywhen brought into the gaoi showcd eVidentsymptomsmiddotof extcnsive disease of the brain
The case of cancer was ope of long standing the vagin1being eatelIHay andmiddotthe rectum partially-middot
WILLIAM WALSH FROS Medical Officer
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
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VICTORIAN ARTILLERY CORPS
RETURN of Diseases and Deaths at the Victorian Artillery Corps Melbourne during the Year 1872
wd 4i~ a0 ~~ ~~H o~~O t ~d ]0ZB -e- Sol tEi8 I=lt~ ~ cOgtDiseaseE-ltDiseases of ~~ ill zEi Zwiz ltn
f8
ii la~ Ec~ ~S ~ 91 iodl~I 0 gt015~o~0lt0 AgE-ltO ~zE-ltO ~si E-ltI=lt ~El _- shyDaysI-i~
CLASS III~LoOAL DISEASESshyCLASS I-ZYlfOTIC DISEASES continued
Order l-M~asmatic Diseases Order 2-Diseascs of the Rcspira-Diphtheria tory fiystem 1 36
9 4 Cynanche 83 Bronchitis 91 Typhoid Fever 91 Carbuncle
I) 8 Boils Order 4-Diseases of the Digestive22 Catarrh (Common) Organs72 Influenza 2 Hromonhoids 1 21 ~ DY3entery
1 96 2 Fistula 6 Diarrhrea 2 2815 Dyspepsia 6 Rheumatism (Chronic)
1 4 raundice 23 1Rheumatism (Acute) 8 Mumps 6 bull -
Order 6-Diseases of the Organs Order middot2-Enthetic Diseases of Generation
1413 Orchitis H bull H 2 2 Syphilis 266 Gonorrhrea --I-1shy
Order 8-Diseases of the Integushy1049Total Class 1 mentary System -----
Phlegmon 4 2 3 Ulcer 3
Psoriasis 1 12 CLAllB IT-CONSTITUTIONAL 1 Urticaria 14 DISEASES --I-
Total Class III 46 5 Order 2-Tubercular Diseases -1 80 Hremoptysis
5 3Abscesses 22 CLASS V-VIOLENOE2 Bubo (Sympathetic)
Order I-Accident or Negligence --
8 17 Total Class II -- shy Contusion 4 5
Sprains 12 8 Dislocation of Arm 1 4 Fracture of Arm 1 90 CLASS m-LOOAL DISEASES Wounds 3 7
Order I-Diseases of the Nervous Total Class V 21 11 System 21 Tptal of all Classes 124Otitis 9
REMARKS
There are only three cases in this return which call for any special comment
~st A healthy Young man belonging to the Artillery CorpR was attacked with well-marked diphtheria accompanied with the eruption of scarlatina He recovered completely under the sulphur treatment combined with carbolic acid
2nd A case of fistula in ano was completely cured by the ordinary operation for that complaint
31d A member of the Artillery Corps having accidentally fallen over a precipice received a fracture of the forearm
togethetmiddot with concussion of the spine attended with paralysis of the lower extremities After a long detention in the barracks hospital he regained the full power of hoth upper and lower limhs
r F McGAURAN
Medical Officer
By Authority JOliN FEIUIES Government Printer Melbourne
