Statistics of Van Diemen’s Land. 25 
defrayed from the Colonial Treasury under the head of 
*« Pauperism.” 
Tables 58 to 61 form the Medical Statistics of the Colony 
fer 1849. The first is a return of the Insane under treat- 
ment in the Lunatic Asylum at New Norfolk; the total 
number treated being 263, of whom 84 or 31:9 per cent. 
were admitted durimg the year. There were discharged 
within the same period 114 per cent., of whom only 6 per 
cent. were cured, 1°1 per cent. improved, and 4:1 per cent. 
discharged without improvement. The deaths were 7°9 per 
cent., and 214 remained at end of 1849, or 81 per cent.— 
Of the whole number 69 per cent. were convicts, and 80°79 
per cent. free, or about $rds of the former and 4rd of the 
latter, being in exact converse to the ratio of free and bond 
to population, which consists of 3rds free to 4rd convicts. 
The greater tendency to insanity of persons of vicious habits 
and of irregularity of life is hence strikingly evident. Again, 
of the convicts, 34°6 per cent. were females, and 65:4 per cent. 
were males; and of the free, 80°8 per cent. were females, 
and 69° per cent. males.—As compared with 1848, the total 
number of cases show an increase of 14°8 per cent. 
Table 59 shows the number of free paupers treated in 
Convict Hospitals during 1849, the expense of which is 
borne on the Colonial Revenue. ‘There were 550 persons in 
all, of whom 79°45 per cent. have been convicts, and 20°5 
per cent. are persons always free. The increase since 1848 
is nearly 4 percent. The paupers “always free’ have de- 
creased nearly 8 per cent.; while those who have been 
convicts have, on the contrary, increased 8 per cent.,— 
making a difference of 16 per cent. 
Table 60 is a list of diseases treated at the Colonial Hos- 
pitals, and of the deaths, in 1849. A decrease is shown of 
21°2 per cent. in the number of cases, but an increase of 16°8 
