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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1871.

Name and Nature of the Prisons. (Whether "Common Gaol," "Penitentiary," &c.)

Mero "Lock-ups'

not to lin

inserted.

"

Number Committed

for Delit, Want of Bail, and

Punishment.

Number

of those Committed

who

have been Previously

Convicted.

Number of Persons Committed to

Penal Imprisonnient,* including

"Penal Servitude" (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

Punishment.)

Total Number of Persons Committed in 1871.

For Debt.

For safe Custody till Trial, or for want of Security.

For

of Penal

Imprisonment.* purposes

Once.

'T'wice.

Thrice or more.

For Five Years or more.

For One Year or more, but less than Five Years.

For more than 3 Months, and less than One Year.

For Three Months or less.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the year 1871.

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Daily Average on the Sick List.

The Number of Deaths during 1871.

"Victoria Onol,”- Commun Gunl, House of Correc-

tion, also receives

Prisoners

tenced to Penni

Servitude,

&c. *

心

3,017

| 50

512 8,349 | 180 124 | 00

DE

283

388 2,584400

137 0.37

0

TOTAL...

| 3,017

50

612

3,840 180, 121 · 60

¦ 01

283

388 2,684 | 400

137 0.37

0

Here All up

the columns

Mon,...8,268

3,268 | 52

In respect of < Women,

820

+

447

51

2,750 | 158 | 102° 51

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270

321 2,078 183

124 0.87

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971

0

1

32

230

8

Juveniles,

830

14

310

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3

11

36

267

R

13

the

whute

Colony.

* By

"Penal Imprisonment" is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a sentence of 'n Court of Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment for sufù custody, &c.

THESE QUESTIONS ARE TO BE FILLED UP IN RESPECT OF EACH PRISON IN THE COLONY.

Questions.

I. If the prison is on the separate system, is the separation complete? And if not, what is the separation enforced by day and night respectively?

II. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association?

III. How many calls ura there; and how many nssoginted words 7°

IV. Tuking the average number of prisoners in gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?

Answers.

The prison is not on the separate system, but long sentenced European prisoners (ie., over six months) aro in separate cells at night.

Chinese and Indian prisoners are in association by night and also by day, but uro separated according to class and nationality at night and on the works.

All the cells of the prison have Iron gates through which the actions of the prisoners can be seen at all hours of the night and day. While on the works and in the exercise yards, the prisoners are constantly under the supervision of Indian and European Turnkeys.

There aro 163 cells in the prison and 4 associated warda; 34 cells are on the sepurite system, 129 cells on the associated system.

the

The daily average number of prisoners confined during year 1871 was 499. The cubic space for each prisoner during the hours of sleep is about 700 cubic feet, ie, if the space in corridors and passages aro included in the measurement.