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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH JANUARY, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,-No. 30.
The following Annual Returns from the Acting Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, for the year 1884, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th January, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
the
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VICTORIA GAOL OFFICE, HONGKONG, 6th January, 1885.
SIR, I have the honour to forward herewith the usual annual Returns of this Establishment for year 1884.
1. Gaol and Prisoners, Hongkong, 1884.
2. Statement of Daily average of prisoners confined in Gaol for each month of the year, from
1876 to 1884.
3. Return shewing the number of prisoners in Gaol on the last day of each week of the year 1884. 4. Return shewing the Classification of Offences for which prisoners were committed to Gaol during the year 1884.
Since assuming charge of this Establishment on the 17th of February last, I have received every assistance from the Warden, Head Turnkeys and other members of the Gaol Staff, and it is to the con- scientious discharge of their respective duties by these officers that I attribute the effective working of the Gaol administration during the past year.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
The Honourable W. H. MARSH, C.M.G..
Colonial Secretary,
HONGKONG.
Name and Nature of the Prisons, (Whether Common Gaol," Penitentiary," &c.) Meré Lock-ups,"
not to
be inserted.
ALEXANDER FALCONER, Acting Superintendent.
STATISTICAL RETURN for the Prisons of Hongkong for 1884.
Total Number of Prisoners Committed in 1884,
Number Committed for Debt,
Want of Bail,
Number of those Committed
who bare been
Number of Persons Committed to Penal Imprisonment,* including "Penal Servitude,"
and Punishment. previously Convicted. (if that term is used in the
Colony to describe
Punishment.)
any
For Debt.
For Safe Custody till Trial
or for Want of Security.
For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment.
Once.
Twice.
Thrice or more.
For Five Years or more.
For One Year or more, but
less than Five Years.
For more than 3 Months, and less than One Year,
For 3 Months or less.
"Victoria Gaol,"
Common Gaol, House of Correc
tion, also receives Prisoners sentenced to Penal Servitude &c.,...
4,023
48
683 3,292
213 94 188 32
Total.....
4,023
Men,
48 683 3,292 243 94
3,670 47 6043,019 233 87
112
Women,
Juveniles,
168
1
57
110
The Daily Average Number in Prison.
The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.
The Number of Admissious to Hospital during the Year 1884.
The Number of Deaths during 1881.
128
248 2,384 552 8.095
317
3
188 32
128
181 32
124
248 2,884 552 8.095 317
227 | 2,630520.00)
3
185
22 163 10
7
7
2
7 101 10.76 8,095 317
3
2
14 147 21.24
*
By "Penal Imprisonment" is meant Imprisonment inflicted as a substantive Punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of Justice, as distinguished from Imprisonment for Safe Custody. &c.