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No 939 2nd February, 1872.
Semaphore
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
to
d.c.m. G&CB
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Kimberley
Cutting the hair of Female Prisoners
In reply to inquiries made respecting the practice of
(1 Enclosure)
"Copy
Report of Mrs Douglas,
Superintendent
of
Victoria Gaol, in reference to Circular Despatch from The Secretary
of State, of the 2nd December 1874, respecting
the practice
of cutting the hair of Female Convicted Prisoners...
The hair of Female Prisoners
has
never
been cut to
my knowledge
in this Gaol;
certainly not since I became
Superintendent in 1863.
Chinese Female Prisoners
as a rule
are exceedingly clean