But the mortality in the Tiumén prison has been, at times, even greater than this. Below will be found a table that I have compiled from the annual reports of the inspectors of exile transportation for the eleven-year period from the 1st of January, 1876, to the 1st of January, 1887.[1]
DEATH-RATE IN TIUMÉN FORWARDING PRISON
FOR ELEVEN-YEAR PERIOD FROM 187G TO 1886 INCLUSIVE.
| Year. | Whole number of prisoners for year. |
Average daily umber of prisoners. |
Whole number of deaths. |
Percentage of deaths. |
| 1876 | 20,482 | 813 | 284 | 34.9 |
| 1877 | 19,042 | 756 | 279 | 36.9 |
| 1878 | 19,972 | 793 | 329 | 41.4 |
| 1879 | 20,174 | 801 | 354 | 44.1 |
| 1880 | 19,975 | 793 | 256 | 32.2 |
| 1881 | 19,063 | 757 | 219 | 29.9 |
| 1882 | 18,580 | 738 | 175 | 23.7 |
| 1883 | 22,010 | 874 | 311 | 35.5 |
| 1884 | 21,014 | 834 | 224[2] | 26.8 |
| 1885 | 19,250 | 764 | 182 | 23.8 |
| 1886 | 19,016 | 755 | 254 | 33.6 |
From the above table it appears that, in the course of the eleven-year period from 1876 to 1886 inclusive, the death-rate in the Tiumén forwarding prison ranged from 23.7 per cent. to 44.1 per cent.; and that in seven years out of the eleven it was higher than 30 per cent. This would completely annihilate a fixed population in from two and a half to four years. The record of our convict camps, and the
- ↑ The average daily number of prisoners is computed from the total annual number upon the basis of 14½ days' detention for every prisoner. This is not absolutely correct, but the error, as may be seen by comparison with the foregoing tables, is not great enough to make any material difference.
- ↑ As regards this number there is a discrepancy in the original report which I am unable to rectify. In one table it is given as 219, in the other 224.
