Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1882 — India’s Black Holes of Jails. [ARTICLE]

India’s Black Holes of Jails.

The amount of sickness and mortality in some of the jails of India is stated, with good reason, in the official reports to be very deplorable. This is particularly applicable to the Punjab. In the year 1879 more than one-third of the average strength of the unfortunate inmates of the Bawal Pindi Jail are stated to have died, being at the rate of nearly 360 J per 1,000. At Umballah the death rate was nearly as high, though in this jail there was no case of cholera. In the jail at Belgium, in the Bombay Presidency, nearly half the average strength was swept off in 1878. In 1879 the rate had diminished, though it still reached the fearful proportion of 200 per I,ooo.— London News. Mbs. Lucy T. Coleman, of Hamilton, Ohio, writes: “Forjnany years I suffered from a complication of diseases. Dyspepsia, impure blood and irregularities were my greatest troubles. J was also very nervous, and at times my heart ached most severely. I often suffered from heartburn, belching, nausea, etc., after meals. I was advised by my neighbor, Mrs. Longmore, to try Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. Having tried so many things, I did so with very little faith. I was highly pleased to find it just the medicine I needed. It surely must contain some secret ingredients, for I can not believe that simple Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla would create such a remarkable change as it did in my case. That queer sensation of bearing down and pain in the loins never troubles me any more at all.”

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