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Government House,
Hongkong, 1st. April, 1905.
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Referring to Mr. May's Despatch No. 96 of
the 10th. of March, 1904, I have the honour to transit six
copies of the Report of the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol
for the year 1904.
2.
The total number of persons committed to
prison was 7,464 as compared with 7,273 in the previous year,
but of these only 4,027 were committed for criminal offences
against 4,644 in 1903, Of committals for non-criminal offences
there were 439 more under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and
133 more for infringement of Sanitary Byelaws.
3.
The percentage of prisoners to population
according to the daily average of the former and the estimated
number of the latter was .201 compared with .189, the average
percentage for the last 10 years.
4.
The Prison Discipline was satisfactory,
there being 798 punishments in this respect as compared with
1,530 in the preceding year and 1,971 in 1902. This decrease
from an average of 3.42 offences per prisoner in 1902 to 2.34
in 1903 and 1.1 in 1904 is noteworthy..
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Though there has been a considerable
decrease
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P..
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