# Table V.
- ABSTRACT of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during a period of ten years 1909-1918.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, and the Number of MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Total number of cases. Year Committed to prison or detained pending trial or order of His Excellency the Governor. Convicted and punished. Discharged. Ordered to find security To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Escaped before being brought for trial at the Magistracy. Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony. Undecided. Total number of defendants. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1909 10,771 11,668 991 2,670 303 117 6 24 562 229 1 73 12 15 15,119 1,541 1910 11,688 12,880 741 3,655 278 198 23 27 1 358 105 3 4 123 17,248 1,153 1911 10,471 11,000 482 2,832 217 187 23 23 391 59 1 2 45 6 14,482 787 1912 13,450 15,945 641 3,027 329 157 6 5 451 119 4 7 19,612 1,332 1913 14,218 19,856 877 3,329 181 169 24 25 415 97 22 23,046 952 Total, 60,598 71,349 3,732 14,743 1,808 828 82 104 1 2,177 669 5 4 17 279 24 79,507 5,765 Average per Year, 12,119.6 14,269.8 746.4 2,948.6 361.6 165.6 16.4 20.8 0.2 435.4 133.8 1 0.8 3.4 55.8 4.8 1914 11,192 12,890 267 2,401 115 21 16 111 149 10 7 1915 12,963 12,788 305 2,056 116 10 7 96 116 4 10 1916 15,057 14,881 455 2,233 127 10 3 92 119 6 1917 11,922 11,727 441 2,168 1,947 296 22 2 1918 9,805 9,359 373 313 40 Total, 60,239 61,645 1,841 10,805 541 617 29 41 1,520 157 2 1 3 274 54,710 2,562 Average per Year, 12,047.8 12,329 368.2 2,161 108.2 123.4 5.8 8.2 265.2 81.4 0.4 0.2 0.6 54.8 Grand Total for the 10 Years, 120,837 182,994 5,573 26,548 1,849 1,545 11 145 108,503 134,217 8,327 Average per Year, 12,083.7 18,299.4 557.3 2,554.8 184.9 14.5 11.1 14.5 13,421.7 832.7