# Table V.
4. ABSTRACT of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during a period of ten years 1918-1927.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Total Year number of cases 1 Convicted and punished. Discharged. Commit-ted for trial at Supreme Court. Committed to prison or detained pending 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 Ma-gistracy. Escaped. 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. M. F. 1918 9,805 9,359 373 1,947 127 117 10 197 41 1919 12,961 13,788 364 1,662 108 146 2 1920 15,267 1921 16,520 17,374 517 1,541 119 136 5 76 7 143 19 151 86 5 1922 17,374 18,726 €95 2,247 18,535 18,338 614 2,018 119 136 5 173 5 761 98 246 30 Total, 73,942 75,761 2,563 9,415 581 682 25 Averago per Year, 14,788-4 15,146-2 512-6 1,883 116-2 136-4 1923 21,720 22,975 356 3,190 72 246 264 17 1924 27,724 28,708 859 5,154 172 171 6 376 38 1925 25,790 26,896 1,595 4,099 242 178 323 23 1926 30,516 31,360 1,379 3,540 149 83 403 64 1927 32,122 33,114 1,306 3,501 160 93 521 49 1 Total, 137,872 143,053 6,495 19,484 795 771 9 Average per Year, 27,574-4 23,410-6 1,099 3,896,8 159 154-2 1·8 Grand Total for the 211,814 217,784 8,058 28,899 1,376 1,453 34 444 1.8 871 191 377.4 88.2 Yeats, Average per Yent, 21,181-4 21,778-4 806-8 2,889-9 137.6 145-4 3°4 1.1 272.2 29-3 .2 89.8 3-3 24,972-1 978-3...