and on ascertaining the probable amount of detention report whether he considers
there will be
any
risk to the health of the
prisoners now confined in the latter place, if
they carry
out the proposed changes. If the Colonial Surgeon is of opinion
that the additional 100 or
1979.
prisoners
can
be
accommodated in
Victoria Gaol - let Mr Douglas draw
up a report detailing the way in which he would take to provide sufficient accommodation and
(signed) R. G. MacD.
124
(Copy).
Colonial Surgeon's Office,
Sir,
In
Hongkong 28th October 1880.
In compliance with instructions contained in Memo: No76 by His Excellency
the Governor and numbered in
your office 16/9, I have consulted with Mr Douglas, the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, also visited and minutely inspected the
civil stationed at Cape Collinson Island, and beg to report:
That
on
the 20th instant there were in
Victoria Gaol 1189 male Chinese prisoners,
that
on
the same
day
there
were confined
at Cape Collinson Island 165 male Chinese
Colonial Secretary