4.
have a tap in the passage and each prisoner to be provided with a basin, 82, &c. This proposal however
I do not approve of,
as in this climate, all persons
require a much larger supply of water for washing
than
in
England.
An addition might be made to the south-end of the building, one story high, with a
flat roof
and cistern which might receive a supply of water during rains
from:
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I have shown it is possible to connect
5.
A and B, and if the Fails' House (recommended
by the Committee) is built, it would be attached
to Fail C, but not easily to the others.
It would be advisable to build the
kitchen proposed by the Committee.
larger
I do not think it advisable to divide the
rooms into separate sleeping berths; the system of discipline in the
the main
roof, which should be
as
provided with eaves-gutters (these might also be
applied to the other jails) and in winter or times of great drought, prisoners should be constantly employed carrying water in a suitable water-cart instead of in buckets as might be imposed upon some
at
this service
at present: for punishments or extra work. Each cell to have a close stool. It is necessary for one to remark with
regard
to the defective construction of these jails,
that they
were formed by the addition of an upper
floor upon the walls of the old jail built in 1841,
and therefore formed no part of an original design
prepared by
me.
New
Jail I know nothing of, but
the prisoners are at work all
day
on the roads,
the indiscriminate herding alluded to, I presume
not of such injurious tendency
as Lt. Col.
E. Jebb imagines.
(Signed). Chas. G. Gleverly.
Surveyor General.
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Mani (Colonial Secretary)