48.
(Table F.)-JUVENILE Offenders committed to Royal Gaol in 1872, 1878, and 1874.
1872 1878 1871
Sex.
Number of Times Committed.
Year.
Male.
Female.
2nd.
3rd.
4th.
5th.
30
C
3
44
7
61
21
13 14
8
15
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(Table G.)-SHEWING the Increase in certain Crimes during 1874.
Crimes.
1873.
Committed in
1874.
Committals in 1874 exceeds 1873 by.
Drunkennesk
·
Disturbing the peace
102 24
155
53
69
45
Fighting
141
297
156
Gaming
5
17
12
Indecent behaviour
27
57
30
Larceny
343
436
93
Obscene language
76
122
46
Riotous and disorderly conduct
82
166
84
Receiving stolen goods
32
77
45
Vagrancy
37
108
71
(Table H.)-CASES brought before the Sitting Magistrates in 1874.
Offences against the Person.
Prædial Larceny.
Offences against Property other than Predial Larceny.
Other Offences.
Total Number of Cases.
2,334
21
1,814
6,849
11,018
·
(Table I)-Cases disposed of before the Sitting Magistrates in 1872, 1873, and 1874.
1872.
1873.
1874.
How Disposed of.
Offences against the Person.
other than Prædial Larceny. | Offences against Property,
Predial Larceny,
Other Cffencin
Offences against the Person.
other than Prædial Larceny. | Offences against Property,
Prædial Larceny.
Other Offences.
Offences against the l'erson.
other than Pradial Larceny. Offences against Property,
Prædial Larceny,
Other Offences.
Convicted
594
19
Acquilted
1,539
Remanded to Superior Cri-
minal Court
47
Totale
2,180
Grant totala
453 3,406
623 14
687 3,869
730 4,118
706 15
81,054 2,700
30
31
938 3,472 1,821 7 1,280 3,1941,559
32 40
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65 70
40 1,423 6,918 2,599 21 2,0087,128, 2,334 211,814 6,849
11,018
10,561
11,751
(Table K.)—RETURN of Labour performed at the Convict Depôts at Carrera's Island and Chaguanas during 1874.
Where
Ejuployed.
Nature of Employment.
Number of Dayu.
Number of Men.
Average
per Man, per Day.
Amount.
£ • d.
Carrera's Island
Chaguanas
Quarrying stones and breaking metal for (lovern rent work Felling trees, bringing out tim- ber and railway-sl'epers, nud keeping roads in order
309
11,164
1
558 4 0
300
29,118
1
1,455 18 0
2,014 2
Abstract of Gaol Hospital Return for 1874.
PREVALENT DISEASES.-Diarrhoea and dysentery have been the most urgent; next inflammatory diseases of the chest, often with heart complications and asthma; rheumatism, chiefly ticular; several cases of prostration from the abuse of opium. Syphilis in all its aggravated forms, and constitutional ulcers often gangrenous (these three last on incoming prisoners): dropsies connected with old organic disease of liver, spleen, or kidneys, and a few cases of choleraic diarrhoea of extreme suddenness and severity, chiefly owing to the unseasonable weather, north winds and showers.
Average daily number of prisoners under medical observation and treatment as follows:-
In hospital Female quarters Out-patients
...
Whole number on sick list, December 31, 1873
Number of new cases during the year
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23
48
1,438
16
24
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In Royal Gaol-
Natural causes
Suicide
Judicial execution
Out-stations --Chaguanas
Royal Guol
Judicial execution
Diarrho
Lung disease
Heart disease
Suicide
General dropsy
Congestion of brain
Diffuse subcutaneous abscess
Chaguanas depôt- Dysentery
Acute peritonitis
Total
で
DEATHS.
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CAUSE OF DEATHS.
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24
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27
One of these (the dropsy case) died fourteen hours after committal; another four days after, and another within the month. Three others were re-transferred for treatment to Gaol Infirmary from out-stations, two from Chaguanas, and one from Carrera's Island.
Malingerers have been as busy as usual requiring great firmness, and at the same time much prudence and discretion in dealing with them.
Whole number of prisoners on office journal on December 31, 1873 Committed during the year
..
..
466
Total
.. 3,377
3,843
Transferred to out-stations
(Of these 166 were indentured immigrants.)
672
Number of prisoners labouring under serious illness at the time of their committal,
and kept in hospital Number of same class suffering from ill-health not necessarily confined to hospital.
but becoming out-patients
93
618
Total
711
(Together nearly one-fifth of the whole numb.)
Prisoners at out-stations, when very ill, are, as a rule, re-transferred to Royal Gaol Infirmary for treatment.
It has been my duty occasionally to have to postpone (on account of ill-health) or even, in a few instances, to dispense with altogether (on account of protracted illness) the corporal punishment of some of the prisoners who had been sentenced the eto.
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