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On my recommendation, vegetables have been substituted for an equivalent quantity of corn meal in the daily rations to all prisoners, as already provided for in the dietary scale. This was done to introduce a larger proportion of anti-scorbutic elements into the diet.
Three births have taken place within the Gaol this year.
Considerable altera
All prisoners are inspected by the Medical Officer once a week. The general sanitary condition of the Gaol was satisfactory. tions have recently been made in the females' quarters, tending to improve discipline and sanitary conditions.
The changed position of the forge in the labour yard promises also, when com- pleted, to be a marked improvement, and attended by less risk of accident from fire, owing to its isolation.
The ventilation of the main building has been considerably augmented by the removal of the inner wooden doors from the large castern open-iron-work door upstairs, which leads directly into the long passage on which the cells abut.
The painful effects of the pernicious habits of opium eating, have been extensively noticed this year amongst the prisoners committed (Chinese and Coolies), enervating and unfitting them for labour and exposing them to speedy prostration on the slightest invasions of disease. It has been necessary at times to keep up the supply of opium in judicious quantities to save life. This only in extreme cases.
I have at times found our hospital accommodation insufficient for the number of patients; and am compelled on such occasions to send the milder cases into their rooms in the prison. Our utmost accommodation is for twenty-eight beds, and of these, the night warders occupy two. I should be thankful for more room, and would
recommend the raising of the roof at least 2 feet. The height at present from floor to plate is only 8 feet.
(Signed) THOS. MURRAY, M.D., Medical Attendant.
The Hon. the Acting Colonial Secretary.
Criminal Statistics.
I.-OFFENCES.
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police or the Magistrates
during 1874.
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III. SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.
TABLE showing the Number of Summary Convictions for various Classes of Offences, and the kind of Punishments inflicted.
Punishments.
<
Fine..
Total Number
of Offences.
Assaults
and other Offences against
the
Person.
Malicious Injuries
to
Property.
Pradial Larceny.
Offencea ogainst Property
other than Malicious
relating to indentured Coolies,
Other Offences.
Offences against Revenue Acta, Highway Acts,
Offences
Health Acts, and
ag inst Masters and Servants Acto,
Injuries to
other Acts
including Acts
Property or
relating to the
Predial
Social Economy
Larceny.
of the Colony,
26
53
137
179
h
312 1,042
45
574
811
877
26
2,393
644
Imprisonment in
lieu of fine or surety Peremptory im.
852
128
15
28
47
15
prisonment
..2,186
188
1
68
239
2
•
19
1
4
Whipping
Bound over with
or without suretics
Total
-
:
14
256
122
1
1
132
..
| 5,706
1,082
42
150
428
196
1,169
2,639
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IV.—INDICTMENTS AND INFORMATIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS (including Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessions in England, i.e., District Courts, &c.).
State how the Cases
Tried in the
Offences
Superior Courts ended.
Total Number of Offences Reported.
Offences against the Person,
Tradial Larceny.
against Property (other than Pradial Larceny).
Other Offences.
10,696
3,156
246
991
6,303
Include in the Returns below the Indictments for Attempts
nud Conspiracies to commit the several Offences.
Total.
Murder, other than Wife and Child Murder.
Manslaughter.
Murder of Wife, Reputed Wife, or Concubine.
Attempt at Murder.
Child Murder.
Concealment of Birth.
Abortion.
II. APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.
TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Courts by Arrest Warrant or Summons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of in the Magistrates' Courts.
In the
Offences.
Number Discharged for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.
Dismissed
on the Merits.
Number of Cases Number of Persons
Summarily Convicted.
Committed for Trial Number of Persona
Superior Courts.
1,590
883
1,084
63
78
61
149
1
Offences against the person.
Pradial larceny..
Offences against property other than prædial lar- ceny
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Judgment for the Crown Judgment for the prisoner 26 Prisoner found insane Case fell through for want of prosecution, includ
out by
ing cases where a Bill was thrown Grand Jury.. (No Grand Jury.)
:
:
:
:
:
radwy | - et :
•
:: Unnatural Crimes.
24
3
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:::
17
22
5
Other Offences against the l'erson.
Malicious Injuries
Property.
Robbery with Violence.
Pradial Larceny.
Other Offences against Property.
Miscellaneous Offences.
:
:
•
:
367
445
471
20
Offchces against Masters
and Servants Acts, in-
elading Acts relating to Indentured Coolies
829
221
1,221
1
Other offences
1,467
988
2,939
58
Total Number of persons
summoned or apprehended
4,331
2,698
5,804
143
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