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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1877.
Name and Nature of the Prisona. (Whether "Common Gaol," "Penitentiary," &c.)
Mere "Lock-ups"
not to be inserted.
** Victoria Grol,”- Coinman Grol, Rouse
of Correction, also
receives Prisoners sentenced to Penal Servitude,
Rara fill up ther colonna
In respect of be whole
Colomy.
Number committed for Debt, Want of Bui,
and Punishment.
Total Number of Prisoners committed in 1877.
For Debt.
For safe Custody till Trial
or for Want of Security.
For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment.
Number of those Committed
who have been
previously Convicted.
Опсе,
Twice.
Thrice or more.
For Five Years or more,
Number of Persons Committed to Penal Imprisonment," including
"Penal Servitude,”
(if that term is used in the Colony to describe any
Punishment.)
For One Year or more, but Jem than Five Years.
For more than 3 Months,
and less than One Year.
For 9 Months or lem.
The Daily Average Number In Prison.
The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.
The Number of Admissions to Hospital during
the Year 1877.
The Number of Deaths during 1877.
3,948
223
892 9,091
191 74
59
14
103
243
2,071
395,22 | 12.38
246 7
&c.
Total,..
3,946 23 802 9,031 191 74
59
14
109
249
2,671
305.22 12.38
246
7
Меп,
9,685 21 776 2,868
180 69
$
50
14
98
292
2,524 373.32
Women,
198
95 101
6
02
**
18.80 12.88
248
Juveniles......................
83
21
62
11
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• By "Penal Imprisonment" is meant Imprisonment inflicted as a substantive Punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of Justice,
"na distinguished from Imprisonment for safe 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 separa- tion enforced by day and night respectively?
II. If not on the separate system, wint provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association?
III. How many cells are there; and how many associated wards?
IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in Goal, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?
V. How are the prisoners classified?
Answers.
The Prison is not on the separate system, but the majority of the European prisoners, and a few of the Chinese are in separate cells at night.
Chinese and Indian prisoners are in association both day and night.
All the cells of the Prison have iron gates, through which the prisoners can be seen at night. While at labour or at exercise, the prisoners are constantly under the supervision of the Prison Officers.
There are 144 cells, 136 for Male and 8 for Female prisoners, exclusive of the Debtors' accommodation comprised in a separate ward. 37 of the cells are on the separate system, and 107 on the associated plan.
The daily average number of prisoners confined in the Gaol during the year 1877 was 395.22 and the measurement of all the cells combined is 98,898 cubic feet, giving therefore only a cubic space of 240,720 feet to each prisoner during the hours of sleep, passages and corridors not included.
According to the nature of their sentences, their nationality, and occasionally according to their habita and temperament, as follows, viz.:— Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.
Debtors,
Misdemeanants,
Penal Servitude,
Prisoners on remand and for trial.
All the prisoners of the above classes are separated at night, on the works, and in the yards, as much as possible.