# Table V.
4.—Abstract of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during a period of ten years 1916-1925.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE Number of Male and Female Prisoners UNDER EACH Head.
Year Total number of Cases. Convicted and punished. Discharged. Committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Committed to prison or detained under order of His Excellency the Governor. Ordered to find security to keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Absconded. Did not appear and Escaped before being brought for trial at the Magistracy. Escaped. Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony. Undecided. Total number of defendants. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1916 15,057 14,881 455 2,233 96 116 4 10 313 40 1917 11,922 11,727 441 2,169 92 319 3 6 248 34 1918 9,805 9,359 373 1,947 127 117 10 197 41 1919 12,961 13,788 364 1,662 108 146 2 2 76 7 1920 15,267 15,520 517 1,611 119 186 10 5 4 143 19 Total 65,012 65,275 2,150 9,551 542 634 24 22 977 141 13,002 13,055 430 Average per Year 1,910 210 128 4 4 1921 17,374 18,726 695 2,247 151 85 8 242 1922 18,535 18,358 614 2,018 172 171 6 178 2 1923 21,720 22,975 356 3,190 246 30 264 17 1924 27,724 28,708 869 3,154 376 88 323 23 1925 25,790 25,896 1,595 4,099 713 878 16 5 1,382 118 1 Total 111,143 114,643 4,119 16,708 1,255 1,512 40 25 2,369 254 17,625 595 Average per Year 3,341 6 251 8 5 Grand Total for the 10 Years 176,165 179,918 6,269 26,259 1,797 2,146 64 47 3,346 395 1 Average per Year 17,616 17,992 627 2,626 180 215 6 5 335 40