Excerpt from Report of the Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &C., Of White and Colored Convicts: Read Before the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, November, 1849
The whole number of white prisoners admitted during this period is of colored prisoners, 790. Of the whites, 73 have died; of the colored, 141 have died; that is, there has been a mortality amongst the whites of about 4 {695 per cent., and amongst the colored, of nearly 18 per cent
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