Appendix L.
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 1936 Convicted by Ordinary Courts 14,790 14,801 Debtors 76 50 On remand or in default of finding surety. 1,255 1,274 Total 16,140 16,1062. 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. 963 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. Percentage of population. 1927 890,400* 392 .044 1,189 .136 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 .019 1,114 .124 1933 922,643 162 .018 1,472 .160 1934 944,492 157 .017 L.C.K. 593V.G. 839
F.P. 178 .170 1935 966,341 217 .022 L.C.K. 642
V.G. 980
F.P. 174 .186 1936 988,190 297 .03 L.C.K. 600
V.G. 1,127
F.P. 190 .194
* Probably overestimated.
† Census of 1931.