Pending Orders,
Debtors and 1st class misdemeanants,.
Solitary Confinement, (only).
TOTAL,
(Europeans,.
Total No. of Female Prisoners in Gaol,
(Q. 3.)
(Copy)
DESCRIPTION OF PUNISHMENT EUROPEANS INDIANS CHINESE TOTAL Sentenced to Death, 1 1 Sentenced to Penal Servitude, 4 4 Imprisoned for more than One Year, 3 2 61 66 Imprisoned for not more than One Year,.. 5 2 255 262 Committed for Trial, 1 23 24 Remanded for Re-examination, 5 5 Crown Witnesses, 4 3 7 Chinese and Coloured,....... 17 TOTAL, 12 9 348 TOTAL FOR PRECEDING MONTH. 214 138 GRAND TOTAL....... 369RETURN OF PRISONERS CONFINED IN VICTORIA GAOL ON THE FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER 1877
RE MARKS.
Date of Admission of Prisoner longest in Confinement not having been Tried, 13th August 1877.
Date of Admission of Crown Witness longest in Confinement, 1st August 1877.
Date of Admission of Prisoner confined for Debt, or on Civil Process; longest in Confinement, ...
Number of Sick in Hospital (including Trifling Cases at work,) Europeans, 2
Number of Lunatics detained in Gaol, Europeans,
Chinese and Coloured, Number of Destitutes Rationed by Gaol, Chinese and Coloured,...
To the Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
(Signed) G. Ducat
Superintendent of Victoria Gaol.
Hongkong.
six weeks or two months of six imprisonment, and if the injudicious practice of ... betting him off. one half or two thirds of his time is abandoned, the number of prisoners in Gaol may begin again to increase for some time. But the ultimate effect of these making our system really deterrent, will, no doubt, be seen in a steady diminution of crime.
I have the honour to be:
My Lord,
Your Lordship's humble servant,
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