The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-16
NUMBER 80

Q, toc%-JoHhooH Ddles cHrOHlc uySentery, COM
plicated with dropsy.
July 90, 1SS2-Mose Campbell, chronic dysentery.
July 81, lsS2-James Woods, malarial fever with
chronic dysentery.
July 81, 1ss2-Eli Henry, chronic diarrhGa with
dropsy
August /, 1882 james White, typhoid fever
August 10, 1SS2-Allen Crum, heart disease with
dropsy.
August 2s, 1892 Chap Linton, chronic dysenterv
October !, 1SS2--Stephen Barrower senile debility
October 20, 1SS2--Phil Davis, chronic dysenery
October PC, 1Ss2-Cyrus Godfrey, consumption
Total number Is
FROM DEo /, 1882, TO DEC /, 1888:
December 13, Ss2-Henry Taylor consumption
January 30, 1SS3-Joe Bowden meningitis
February 4, 1883 Granville Cox pneumonia
March IA, 1S83-John Bowles, chronic dysentery
March %, lSS3-lsom Hudnall consumption
March 20, lSS3-Geo. Washington or Geo. Bowser
Spann consumption.
March 81, 1851 d. Kennedy heart disease
April - lSs3-Eder White, consumption.
April Is, 1855. G. Ricketts,, consumption
May IA, 1SS3--Geo Bell, heart disease.
May 20, 1SS3--Irvin Davis, heart disease
May q, 1SS3-L. R. Leonard, chronic dysentery.
June 3, lSS3-George Cooper, heart disease
June 10, 1883 Harrison Diamond, heart disease
July II, 1ss3-Mose Thompson consumption.
July %, 1S33-George Holland, chronic dysentery
August 3, 18S3-Scott Herron malaria fever
August IL, 1S83-Simon Flint consumption
August 3d. 1S83--Ruin Alls, general debility.
August 28, lSS3-Louis Johnson, heart disease.
September %, 18S3-Charey Smith, typho-malarial
fever.
October 2, 1S33-Joe Poe, chronic diarrhna
October 8, 1S83-E w. Watson, inflammation Of
bowels
November "a, lss3-Charley Jenkins, chronic dysen.
terry.
November "a, 1885, Henry Stanton, chronic dysen-
terry.
Total number 25
Total number for the two years 40 or these, 1s are
recorded on the Hospital Record as having been adj
mtted from farms and railroads in hopeless or yerv
bad condition, viz: Johnson Dale, James Woods Eli
Henry, James White, Allen Crnm Chap Linton, Elder
White, j. @. Ricketts,, George Bell, L. r. Leonard Har
rison Diamond, Charley Jenkins and Henry Stanton
Ten Others died of ncurable necessarily fatal dis
eases, viz Nathan Smith, Cyrus Godfrey Henry Tay
lor, >. u Kennedy, irwin Davis George Cooper Isom
Hudnall, Nose Thompson Simon Flint and Louis
johnson.
One convict Canoliver Mann, recorded at the Office
OF the Penltentary, and not embraced in the above
list as having died in the walls am informed was re-
ceived from some place outside on the night of No
vember 3, 1883, and died early the morning of the
4th was not called to see him for the reason have
been informed, it was thought useless, as he was in
mofibund condition when admitted
While have not examined the record of the Office
OF the Penitentary and cannot therefore, speak posi-
lively still am of the impression as are others who are
in position TO know that only eight of the forty deaths
were prisoners who belonged inside of the walls and
Of this number | am of the opinion that one, Nose
Thompson, had consumption when first received in
the Penitentary from jail and am not sure but that
another Henry Taylor contracted his disease while at
work outside.
am informed that the average population inside Of
the walls is about 150, and eight deaths out of this
number, for two years, would be an annual average
rate of mortality OF two and two third per cent.
Most of the sick conyicts that have been admitted
to the Hospital from places outside were affected with
chronic disease, OF which were Of long standing
and were generally in bad condition.
think 1t proper to state that many conycts are in
bad health, when received from the iails
Before concluding, desire to say that my report 10
Maj. McQuiston, which published stating the
number of deaths 49, was, in subsequently looking
over the record, discovered to be an error.
Very respectfully, WRIT JOHNSTON.