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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 apprised, when prisoners of their respective persuasions enter tlie Prison?
XVII. What provision is made for the education of prisoners?
XVIII. On what conditions are remissions of impri- sonment 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 sunitary state of the Prison dur-
the year 1875?
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2. What were the prevailing diseases? XXI. What are shortly the Rules as to Diet?
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Answers.
1 deprived of the use of the library and put into solitary confinement on bread and water for a short period besides,
1 was removed from light work, and
2 sentenced by the Police Magistrate to additional
imprisonment. *
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There is no Chaplain attached to the Prison, but the Colonial Chaplain holds service twice a week.
The Reverend Mr. Lamout, Minister of the Union Church, generally holds a service on Sundays for the Presbyterian and other Dissenting prisoners; when he is unable to attend, the service is performed by a Clergyman of the London Missionary Society.-The Prison is also visited by Roman Catholic Priests, who hold services for both European and Chinese prisoners of that persuasion.
All Dissenting Ministers are allowed free access to the Prison at such hours as do not interfere with the discipline of the Prison. Intimation is immediately sent 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 sentences are granted, as a rule, under a scale, which has been approved by the Secre- tary of State, and is similar to that in use in the Convict Prisons in Eugland; also on medical grounds, and a few under special local circumstances.
Yes; in every instance of a death in Prison an inquest was held.
The verdict in both cases, which occurred during the year 1875, was "From natural causes," in the one instance "Meningitis" being the cause of death, in the other "Constitutional Syphilis and Exhaustion."
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Intermittent Fever aud Bronchitis.
With the exeption 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 wlien under punishment for Prison offences, the diet of each prisoner is as follows:-
Every European or White prisoner receives daily:-
Bread,..
Beef without hone,
Potatoes or Vegetables of the season,
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Tea,.
Sugar,
Salt,
Firewood,
Soap,.....
Every Chinese or Coloured prisoner receives daily ;-
Rice,
Oil (with Vegetables and Fish),.
Salt Fish, 3 days in each week,
Vegetables, 9 days in each week,...
Fresh Fish, 2 days in each week,
Cayenne and Chutney (with Fresh Fish)..
Tea,..
Salt,
Firewood,
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Chinese or Coloured prisoners serving sentences of 3 years and over (penal servitude) receive besides the allowance specified in the above scale fib, of Purk
twice a week.
*These 2 men were taken beforu the Police Magistrate, the 1 for an attempt to commit micile, for which he was sentenced to 1 month's hard labour: the silen for an indecent assault, for which he has sentenced to 0 months hard labour and 21 strubes