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statement as the following, by a recent English writer. 1 (Vol. 

 iii., pp. 151-155.) 



1 Dr. Jones states in another part of his report (vol. ii., p. 14), that " but a 

 comparatively small number of the Federal prisoners were affected with malarial 

 fever, and the deaths from this disease amounted to but a small fraction of the 

 deaths from all causes ; " and again it is stated (p. 41), that " the comparative 

 immunity from malarious disease among the Federal prisoners is still further 

 shown by the small number of cases of neuralgia entered upon the sick reports : 

 amongst the large body of Federal prisoners, with a mean monthly strength of 

 21,120, only 33 cases of neuralgia were reported during a period of six months." 



