237
1881 insider sentences for 5 years
or move
Europeans. Indians Chinese. Total.
to
was:
Whilst therefore the number of European and Indian prisoners as compared the population has decreased during the last five years, that of Chinese prisoners has on the other hand
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1881.
1876. 2
6
க
41
45
101
10%
increased from 0,285 per cent in 1876
to 0,405 per cent in 1881.
る。
Prima facie these
figures would suggest that the large
increase of Chinese prisoners
prisoners is to be attributed to an increase of crime : amongst this class of the population; but other causes will account for
A
4.
considerable portion of the increase.
The number of
prisoners who were confined in Victoria Gaol in the years 1876 and
1881
The classification of Chinese prisoners._ confined on the set days of January
of the years 1879 and 1882 was follows:-
Penal Servitude
Imprisonment for more than 1 year. 50
Do
not more than a
Committed for trial
Remands
Debtors
Solitary confinement. Pending Orders.
as
1877
1882
76
154
53
year.
284
405
14
3
14
3
3
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Further
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