Committed on sentence by the town of North Providence for

The sentences by the town of North Providence have been

Ages of persons committed to Jail on sentence :

The nativities of persons committed to the Jail on sentence:

Discharged upon bail bond, or taken in execution,

3

489

492

54

7

26

upon limit bonds, and not since returned, 147
for want of payment of board,

54

PHYSICIAN'S

REPORT.

The undersigned, Physician to the Rhode Island State Prison and Providence County Jail, presents to the Honorable General Assembly, the following report for the year ending December 31st, 1859:

Six deaths have occurred within the year;-five in the State Prison, and one in the County Jail.

George Reynolds, (colored,) died January 21st, 1859, of consumption. He was an invalid at the time he was sentenced, and was under treatment all the time until his death. He had been in Prison about thirteen months.

Patrick McLaughlin committed suicide by hanging himself, in his cell, during the night of April the 14th, 1859. He had been at work the day previous, as usual, and nothing peculiar had been noticed in his behavior. He had been in Prison nearly four years.

Henry Gardner died on the 17th of May, of inflammation of the bowels, consequent upon incarcerated hernia. He was taken sick suddenly, April 28th, and the case presenting some peculiar features, Dr. L. L. Miller, of this city, was early called to see the case, and he attended it with me to the close. We also had the benefit of the counsel of Drs. S. A. Arnold and Usher Parsons, in the treatment of the case. I made him forty-one visits, during his sickness of twenty days, and every attention was given him by the officers of the Prison which his circumstances required.

Henry Wood, alias Briscoe, died of "Bright's disease of the kidneys," May 27th, 1859. He entered the Jail in January, 1858,