The Daily Times. — 1860-10-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TUE RIGIST RON. LORD STANLEY (CT/AIRMAN) AND MAGIS TRATES ASSEMBLED IN QUARTER SESSIONS, RIREDALE. My Lord and Gentlemen,---In making up my annual report I find the sanitary state of the gaol contrasts favourably with any former period, an unusual exemption from disease arising within the establishment requiring hospital treatment having prevailed throughout the year, although the average number of applications for medical relief or. the books since last Michaelmas is greater than ordinary, owing to each complaint. however slight or spurious, having been regularly entered, either when made spontaneously or elicited at the monthly inspections.. These inspections are systematically carried out, whereby every prisoner has the fullest opportunity of making ' any statement he or she may be disposed to make, whether as to disease, diet, or any other matter respecting which it is my duty to take cognisance. 1,993 is the number of applications for the year, viz., 162 males, and 373 females ; and the hospital cases 44, viz., 39 males and 5 females, 7 being the greatest number under treatment at one time. With three or four minor exceptions, the hospital cases had their origin outside, and were of long standing. This was especially so in each instance where death ensued, one male and one female dying from affections of the brain, and one male from consumption, three being the number of deaths. In the former case the disease in the female was traceable to a fright experienced when milking in a thunderstorm, whilst the man had been addicted to intemperance and sensual excesses. Three prisoners have been sent to the lunatic asylum, viz., two females and one male :--Ann Scholes is confirmed epileptic and homicidal, Emily Smith suicidal under the delusion she was to be murdered in gaol, and John Robinson, dangerous from his violence and malicious disposition. The latter has escapes! from various prisons and asylums. He is now in the criminal lunatic asylum in London, sent there consequent upon a report to the Ilome Office, the case being an exceptional one requiring restraint, restraint not entering into the treatment pursued at the asylums to which lunatics are usually taken from this gaol. Two prisoners have had the remainder of their sentences remitted on medical grounds. viz., Thomas Willison and Jas. Morris; and one, Andrew O'Brien, who wts acquitted on a charge of murder on the, ground of insanity, is still here during her Majesty's pleasure. The food furnished liasi been wholesome, and the year closed without a complaint respecting it—an unusual circumstance. Correction and discipline have been so sustained; that in no case where pleas have been urged for exemption of the task imposed, or penalty incurred, has it been necessary to make any remission.  The substitution of a hot-water apparatus for open fires in the hospital has answered compktely, a suitable temperature during the most inclement period of the last severe winter having been kept up throughout the whole building with no more fuel than was formerly necessary, to keeß one grate' supplied.—l have the honour to be, my lord and gentlemen, your most obedient servant, JAmks