establishments differ widely. During the nine past months of this year, the 

 Cascades has had 33 deaths of adults, ranging from 39 to 90 years old, while 

 at the Brickfields there have been only 19, ranging from 62 to 93 years old, or, 

 including one sent to hospital, 20. Possibly the daily average strength of the 

 invalid paupers of the Cascades, may have been twenty to thirty more than 

 at the Brickfields, but then the average age of the latter is so much greater. The 

 average ages of the deaths were respectively : — For the Brickfields, a little 

 above 76 years :at the Cascades only a trifle above 68. Ko doubt the reluctance 

 of invalids to be sent to the Cascades, and the difficulty of retaining them 

 there, may, to some extent, be explained by the comparatively excessive mor- 

 tality there. On sanitary grounds, this old misplaced prison is an unfit place 

 for invalids and children, and now that the Military Barracks are likely to 

 become available for colonial use, they would afford cheerful, healthy, and 

 very eligible quarters for both the afore-named classes. 



