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Questions.
VI. Is penal labour—that is, labour by tread-mill, crank, or shot-drill-in force?
VII. If so, during what periods of imprisonment, in respect of what classes of prisoners, and during how many hours is such penal labour enforced? In stating hours of trend-wheel labour give-first, the total time on and off the wheel, etc.; secondly, the length of spolls and interval of rest.
VIII, What kind of labour, other than penal labour, js in use?
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls of the Guol, state-
1. How many escapes of prisoners, while being employed beyond the Gaol, have taken place during each of the last three years?
2. How are the profits of their labour accounted
for?
X. What was the total annual cost of the Prison during the year 1907?
Answers.
There is no trea:l-mill labour, but shot-drill, crank- Jabour, and stone-carrying are in force.
The hours of labour throngbout the year are from the 1st March to the 31st October from 6.15 n.m. to 4.15 p.m., aud from the 1st November to the 28th February from 6.45 a.m. to 4.15 p... one hour being allowed for dimer, Prisoners ni crank labour, full task, have to complete 12,500 revolutions at a 12 lbs, pressure. European and Chinese prisoners at shot-drill do 44 hours in spells of half an hour at a time, with stone- carrying of oukum-picking in the intervals.
Tailoring, shoe-making, carpentering, grass and coir mat making, rattan work, printing, book-binding, net making, tinsmithing, washing, cleaning, and incidental repairs to the Prison buiklings.
Prisoners have not been employed outside the Gaol during the year.
The total expenditure of the Gaol in 1907 was $97,209.56, of which the sum of §3,532.75 wus refunded for the subsistence of Naval, Military Court Martial prisoners, Debtors, &c., as follows:-
Military, Naval,
$282.60
102.30
Debtors,
998.23
Vagrunts,
60.00
Wei-bai-wei Prisoners,..
684.60
Shanghai Prisoners,
443.10
Waste food sold,
75.00
Personal Emoluments refunded,
192.02
Other Charges refunded,
219.66
Boots money refunded,......
18.10
Forfeitures,
457.12
JANT ALER
$3,532.75
XI. What was the annual amount of the prisoners' earnings during 1907 ?
XII. What is the number of the hours allotted for sleep? And, if sleep is in association, are the dormi- tories lighted; and low often are they patrolled during the night?
Year
The total amount paid into the Treasury during the on nerount of Prison Industrial Labour was 85,790.7%, of which $129,54 was for 1906, aud $3,661.24 for 1907.
The average time during which the prisoners sleep is about 11 hours in 24.
The cells of the Victorin Guol are not lighted, but gas is kept bunning in all passages and corridors, and the Assistant Warders on duty are provided with lamps to throw light into the cells when required. In the Branch Prison gas is kept burning in the wards all night.
Assistant Warders nro on dury in the Guol through- out the night, and patrol the corridors and passages constantly. The patrols are visited every hour by a Principal Warder. The Assistant Superintendent makes one surprise visit each week after 9 p.m.