that once a building site has been levelled and laid out it is a matter of extreme difficulty to effect subsequent changes. These difficulties will account for the somewhat close juxtaposition of the buildings and the more capacious airing grounds.
387 my duty from time to time to refer Looking, however, to your Lordship's instructions, I have confined myself to considering such alterations only as may be essential in the existing layout in the town of Victoria.
6. The Reformatory at West Point to which the Government granted in 1873 Six Hundred Dollars a year for taking charge of Convict Prison on Stone Cutters Island. Twenty-eight juveniles, now Sixty juveniles learning trades and subject to reformatory discipline...
The Christian Brothers who manage that Reformatory spend 2000 dollars a year over and above the Government allowance. There is no doubt the present Gaol is unfortunately much overcrowded. Sir Hercules Robinson's plan of having a proper Reformatory would have prevented some of the serious evils of overcrowding and association to which it has been subject.