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Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, on the subject of
mendicants sentenced to
imprisonment during
year 1891.
2.
the
It does not appear to me that the efigures shown therein point to risk of overcrowding the Gaol with mendicant cases, and the risk is the more remote because, as I informed, the Directors
am
of
the Tung Wa Hospital arrange
from
from
time to time for the
for
transport of a considerable number of able-bodied destitutes to their own
districts.
3.
The provision of a
separate workhouse would involve appreciable additional expenditure, and in the circumstances stated I. have no
suggestion to make for the disposal of.
non
criminal beggars elsewhere
than