AVERAGE
NUMBER
RETURN OF FLOGGINGS IN THE GAOL DURING THE YEAR 1897.
NUMBER OF PRISONERS FLOGGED
MORE THAN ONCE
NUMBER OF FLOGGINGS
OF 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, & 20 STROKES.
OFFENCES FOR WHICH FLOGGINGS WERE INFLICTED.
Refusing to
Number of floggings ordered by
Superintendent alone.
Number of floggings ordered by
Supt. and Visiting Justices.
Number of floggings ordered by
Judge.
Number of floggings ordered by
Magistrate.
Total No. of floggings.
DATE.
OF
PRISONERS
IN
By
Superin-
By
Superin
GAOL.
tendent By
By
tendent. Visiting]
and
Judge.
Magis-
Total,
trate.
January,
541
471
489
526
Justices.
482
6
426
438
3
3
10
2
3
I
9
1
2
2
432
2
2
September,
412
October,.....
132
November, .........
432
2
December, ......................[
431
:
TOTAL,.
13
:
:
2
19
2
2
12
t
1
14
16
12
་
7
2
11
15
28
民
+
+
6
9
الاستمات
12 15 18 20
3 5 2 1
ŏ
*
7
2
1
3
:
***
***
Four times.
More than four
times.
Labour.
Personal violence to an
officer.
Three times.
1
1
I
11 6
5
1
...
19
1
6
B
مم
6
IS
...
14 3 1
...
1
1 2
1 1
5
17
1
12
6
16 3
+
시
Ι
3
7
2 3
I
4
7
1 2
10
...
61
8
1
12
**
:
...
6
7 1
-
...
00
8
2
1
哑
...
3
น
10
I
11
...
...
...
10
5
71
25
141 23 22 | 65 11
***
9
1
:
112
Personal violence to a
fellow-prisoner.
Using threatening lan-
gnage to an officer.
truction of prison pro-
Wilful and malicious des-
perty.
Creating
T
disturbance
when under punishment.
Attempting to commit
suicide.
quiring to be suppressed by extraordinary means.
Acts of insubordination re-
#
:
1
14
17
12
6
3
9
19
وت
N
:
14
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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5тп FEBRUARY, 1898.
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