Appendix L.
11
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PRISONS
FOR THE YEAR 1936.
The number of prisoners received into prison during the year, and the corresponding number for 1935 were as follows:
1935.
Convicted by Ordinary Courts Debtors
14,790
1936. 14,801
76
50
On remand or in default of finding surety.
1,274
1,255
Total
16,140
16,106
2. The percentage of convicted prisoners admitted to prison with previous convictions recorded against them was 15.9 as compared with 14.1 for the previous year,
3. 96) prisoners were convicted by Police Courts in the New Territories against 774 for the previous year.
4. The following table shows the number of convicts in custody on the 31st December for the past ten years, and the percentage of the total number of prisoners in custody to the estimated population of Hong Kong.
Year.
Estimated population.
Number
of
convicts.
Percentage
of
population.
Daily average number of prisoners.
1,189
Percentage
population.
of
136
1927
890,400*
392
.044
1928
1,075,690*
352
.033
1,071
.100
1929
1,075,690* 331
.031
1,075 .100
1930
1,143,510*
256
.022
1,175 .103
1931
849,751!
202
.024
1,102
.130
1932
900,796
173
.013
1,114 .124
1933
922,643 162
.018
1,472
.160
V.G. 839
1934
944,492
157
.017
L.C.K. 593 .170
F.P.
178
V.G.
980
1935
966,341
217
.022
L.C.K. 642
.186
F.P.
174
V.G. 1,127
1936
988,190
297
.03
L.C.K.
600
.194
F.P.
190
*
Probably overestimated.
† Census of 1931.