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prisoners of all ages and sexes
for that period was 546; and from these may perhaps be deducted juveniles, women, debtors, non- criminal mendicants, defaulters, persons incarcerated for minor
police offences and a certain pro- portion of "gamblers". The ba-
lance of average mumbers, which I
have not the materials for esti-
mating correctly, should be re-
garded as the basis on which to
calculate the requirements of the
Colony in the matter of cellular
accommodation.
5. The present prison Build-
ings if remodelled on the separate
system would provide for about
280 prisoners, but whether it
would not be expedient to leave
a part of the buildings in their
present form, so as to accommodate
those classes of prisoners in res
pect of whom, the separate system
may not be deemed indispensable,t
a question which must be decided
in Hongkong.
6.
In any case it will be
necessary to acquire and to make
use of space additional to that
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