Note 5 — Chapter XXXVII · THE CONVICT MINES OF KARA.

This gave a sick-list of 136 to a population of upwards of 2,000 exiles and 1,000 Cossacks; besides, I suppose, the surrounding peasants. The number of convicts who died in the Kara hospitals from 1872 was as follows:—

1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878

108 287 152 55 118 117 90,

and the number for 1879, up to the 1st July, was 65.

At Tiumen the number on the sick-list was 19 out of 1,113 prisoners on the day of our visit. The number of sick prisoners, out of 20,711 passing through Tiumen in 1878, was 1,562, of whom 1,246 were cured, 280 died, and 44 remained in hospital.