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Questions.
XIV. Is there, or are there, any Chaplain or Chap- lains of any and what religious persuasions ?
XV. Are religious services regularly, or otherwise, performed for the benefit of the prisoners of any, and if any, what religious persuasion?
XVI. Are Roman Catholic Priests and Dissenting Ministers allowed free access to prisoners of their own persuasion, and are they apprized, when prisoners of their respective persuasions enter the Prisoù?
XVII. What provision is made for the education of prisoners?
XVIII. On what conditions are remissious of im- prisonment granted?
XIX. Have Coroner's Inquests been held on every occasion of a death in Prison during the past year, and what were the verdicts?
XX. 1. What was the sanitary state of the Prison during the year 18747
2. What were the prevailing diseases? XXI. What are, shortly, the Rules as to Diet?
Answers.
There is no Chaplain attached to the Prison, but the Colonial Chaplain holds service once every week. The Reverend Mr. Lamont, of the London Mission, also holds service once a week and is assisted by Chinese Clergymen.
Besides the religious services performed by the Co- lonial Chaplain and the Reverend Mr. Lamont, already inentioned, for the benefit of Protestants, the Prison is visited by Roman Catholic Priests, who hold service regularly once a week and are assisted by Chinese Priests.
All Dissenting Ministers are allowed free access to the Prison at such hours as do not interfere with the discipline of the Prison. Intination is immediately seut to any Minister or Priest, if at any time a prisoner expresses a desire to see him.
None; but all are supplied with religious and other useful books.
Remissions of imprisonment are granted, as a rule, under a scale, which has been approved by the Secretary of State, and is similar to that in use in the convict pri- sons in England; also on medical grounds, and a fow under special local circumstances.
Yes; in every instance of a death in Prison an in- quest was held.
The verdict was in one of the two cases whijch oc- curred during the year 1874, "Felo de se,” in the other, "From natural causes, viz., Jaundice."
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Chest, and Bowel complaints.
With the exception of Debtors and Defendants on Remand or committed for Trial, all prisoners are fed on Penal Diet of Bread (or Rice) and Water for ten days (ie., five days at a time) in each month for the first six months of their imprisonment.
At other times, except when under punishment for Prison offences, the Diet of each Prisoner is as follows:-
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Every European or White Prisoner receives daily :--
Bread,
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Beef or Pork without bone,
Potatoes or Vegetables of the Season,
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Tea,
Sugar,
Salt,
Firewood,
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Every Chinese or Colored Prisoner receives daily :-
Rice,
Oil (with Vegetables and Fish), Salt Fish, 3 days in each week,... Vegetables, 2 days in each week, Fresh Fish, 2 days in each week,
Do. with Cayenne and Chutney,
Tea,
Salt,
Firewood,
Soap,...
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Chinese or Colored Prisoners serving sentences of 3 years and above (Penal Servitude) receive besides the allowance specified in the above scale it. of Pork twice a week.