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No. 1902
HONGKONG.
REPORT ON THE VICTORIA GAOL, FOR THE YEAR 1901.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
PRISON DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 24th January, 1902.
SIR,I have the honour to submit, for the information of His Excellency the Officer Adminis- tering the Government, the following report on the Victoria Gaol, for the year 1901.
2. The number of prisoners admitted to the Gaol under sentence from the Ordinary Courts was 4,858, besides 182 soldiers and sailors sentenced by Courts Martial. There were 29 persons admitted for debt, and 8 in default of finding security, making a total of 5,077. Of these, 679 were old offenders.
3. The corresponding numbers for the preceding year were respectively as follows:
Convicted by the Ordinary Courts,
Courts Martial,
Debtors, ...
In default of finding security,
...5,263
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Total, including 702 old offenders,..
....5,432
The daily average number of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 499, as compared with 186 for the year 1900.
4. There were 334 prisoners convicted from the New Territory during the year, of whom, 25 were sentenced to 2 years and upwards.
There were 180 convicts in the Gaol on the 31st December, 1901, against 141 on the 31st De- cember, 1900, 96 on the 31st December, 1899, and 55 on the 31st December, 1898, showing an increase of 125% during the past 3 years.
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The military and naval prisoners sentence by Courts-Martial and admitted to the Gaol during year show an increase of 55% over that of the preceding year, and 993 in excess of those admitted in 1899. This increase is doubtless owing to the large number of soldiers and sailors serv- ing in North China during the inilitary operations last year.
5. The number of prisoners admitted to the Gacl for offences not of a criminal nature was 2,345, made up as follows:-
Convicted under the Opium Ordinance,
576
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123
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Vehicles
55
31
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423
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Sanitary Bye-Laws, ·
153
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Harbour Regulations,
137
Women and Girls Protection Ordinance,
15
for Drunkenness,
107
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11
Trespassing,
24
Disorderly conduct,
138
Vagrancy,
34
under Post Office Ordinance,
8
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for Mendicancy,
190
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Assault,
153
Obstruction,
62
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29
Cutting trees,
31
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Fighting,
87
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