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last
on
the recommendation of the
Colonial Surgeon and with the
Concurrence
Council.
3.
of the Excentive
The most important point, however, to which attention
is called by the Superintendent in this Report is the insufficient accommodation in the present Gaol. As there are
only 49 separate cells, the enforcement of the
separate system, which has been
found elsewhere to have so
excellent a deterrent
effect,
to
quite
of
food
quite impossible with a number prisoners sometimes exceeding 700.
Receiving more and wholesomer than many free labourers can afford to purchase, and performing lighter labour than free coolies, it is not surprising that confinement in Gaol in associated cells inspires
no
great dread in the criminal classes, and that they commit. offences frequently immediately after being discharged from bol. The remedy for this
Į.
state of matters is the construction
of