The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-17
FROM DEC. /, 1882, TO DEC. /, 1883

December 49, lSS2-Henry Taylor, consumption.
January 30 1SS3-Joe Bowden, meningitis
February A. 1SS3-Granville Cox, pneumonia
March IA, 1SS3--John Bowes, chronic dysentery.
March % 1SS3-Isom Hudnall, consumption.
March 80 1SS3-Geo. Washington or Geo. Bowser
Spann, consumption.
March 81, 1851. d. Kennedy, heart disease
April ~, 1SS3-Elder White, consumption
April 1S, 1881. c. Ricketts,, consumption.
May IA, 1SS3--Geo. Bell, heart disease
May 20, 1SS3--lrvin Davis heart disease.
May q, 1SS3-L r. Leonard, chronic dysentery.
June g. lSS3-George Cooper heart disease
June ~, 1SS3-Harrison Diamond heart disease
July IL, 1SS3-Mose Thompson. consumption
July %, 1S33-George Holland, chronic dysentery.
August 3, 1SS3-Scott Heron, malarial fever
August IL, 1S83--Simon Flint, consumption.
August %, 1SS3--RufIn Alls, general debility.
August 28, 1SS3-Louis Johnson, heart disease.
September %, 1ss3-Charley Smith, typho-malarial
fever.
Z October q, 1S33--Joe Poe, chronic diarrhpa
October 0, 1sS3-E. w Watson inflammation of
bowels.
November "a, 1883 Charley Jenkins, chronic dysen-
terry.
November "a, 1ss3--Henry Stanton, chronic dysen-
terry.
Total number %
Total number for the twoyears 40 OF these, 13 are
recorded on the Hospital Record as having been ad-
nittsd tron farms and railroads in hopeless orgery
bad condition, viz: Johnson Dale James Woods, Eli
Henry, James White, Allen Crum, Chap Linton, Elder
White, j. G. Ricketts,, George Bell L. r.. Leonard Har
nson Diamond, Charley Jenkins and Henry Stanton
Ten others died of incurabe necessarily fatal dis
cases. viz: Nathan Smith, Cyrus Godfrey, Henry Tay
lor, j. ID Kennedy, Irwin Davis, George Cooper Isom
Hudnall, Nose Thompson, Simon Flint and Louis
Johnson.
One convict, Canoliver Mann, recorded at the Office
of the Penitentiary and not embraced in the above
list having died in the walls am informed was re-
ceived from some place outside on the night Of No
vember B. 1885, and died early on 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
morbund condition when admitted
While have not examined the record of the Office
OF the Penitentay and cannot therefore, speak posi-
lively still 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
had consumption when first received in
the Penitentary from jail and am not sure but that
another Henry Taylor contracted his disease while
work outside
am informed that the average population inside Of
the walls is about 100, 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 convicts that have been admitted
to the Hospital from places outside affected with
chronic disease some of which were of long standing
and were generally in bad condition.
think 1t proper to state that many convicts are in
bad health, when received from the iais.
Before concluding desire to say that my report to
Maj. McQuiston, which was published. stating the
number of deaths 3S, was in subsequently looking
over the record, discovered to be an error
Very respectfully, WRIT JOHNSTON.