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G.
EXPORTS.
Quantities.
Values.
Duty Collected
Articles and countries of ulti Inato destination,
Producs and Manufactures of the Colony.
Other Produce.
Produce and Manufactures of the Colony.
Other Produce.
Rate and date when hapowed.
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SCHEDULE E.
It is suggested that the sections in the Colonial Blue Books now headed “Agriculture" and "Manu- facture, Mines, and Fisheries" should be replaced by a section to be entitled "Production and Natural Resources." This would be sub-divided as follows:-
1. Agriculture and Land Tenure.
(a) Estimated total area of the Colony and the extent of Crown Lands disposed of by grant
or sale, as well as amount realised during the year; together with the total extent alienated, in process of alienation and remaining unalienated at the end of the
year.
Extent disposed of during the year.
Total Extent at end of
Your.
Amount Realised.
Alienated.
should b
alienation.
Unalien-
sued.
Total area
of Colony.
The conditions on which the land passed to private ownership or holding should be stated.
(b) Size of holdings, specifying the number of
holdings
1. Under 10 acres.
II. 11 to 50 acres.
III. 51 to 100 acres.
IV. 101 to 1,000 acres.
V. Over 1,000 acres.
In the Colonies where estates are all of
a large size, I., II. and III. might be grouped.
(c) Estimated acreage under cultivation and pro- duction (for locul consumption and export) in the year under review, specifying wheat, barley, nata, maise, potatoes, coffee, rocos, tea, sugar, bananas, spices, ontton, sisal hemp, tobacco, and plantation rubber and other locally important crops.
[These particulars should be furnished as far as possible in respect of each adminis- trative district.]
(r) The number of head of livestock (distinguish- ing horses, sases, mules, horned-cattle, shoop, goats, camala, ostrichen, &c.) divided where possible by administrative districts. (The yield (quantity and farm value) of animal produce, e... wool (distinguishing cross- hred merino, &c.), butter, cheese, meat, hides and the like.
NOTE-When the area of a Colony includes any large body
of water, this should be clearly stated.
should. if possible, be given separately.
The area of water
(The figures given should include quanti- tios for local consumption and export.)
2. Forestry.
(a) Total soreage of forest lands in the Colony, distinguishing where possible the acreage under commercial timber or other trees of economic value.
(b) Cut of timber of each kind during the year. und yield of other forest products, e.g., balata, nuts, &c.
(c) Number of timber and rubber concessions, cutting licences and the like granted during the year and area covered thereby.
(d) Any useful genoral information regarding
this industry and the possibilities of it development.
9. Fisheries.
(a) Quantity and value of catch of various kinds
of fish.
(b) Number of boats and persons engaged in fishing, indicating numbers of foreigners so engaged.
(c) Any useful general information regarding this industry and the possibilities of its development.
4. Minerals.
(a) Quantity and value of each class of mineral mined or quarried in the Colony during the year, with an estimate of the metallic content in the case of metallic ores.
(b) Area of Colony which has bean geologically surveyed up to date, with a note as to any important mineral deposits known to exist, hut not at present being worked.
(c) Mining concessions and prospecting licences granted during the year, distinguishing the numbers in each clasS.
(d) Oil concessions and prospecting licences granted during the year, distinguishing the numbers in each class, and quantity of oil produced.
5. Water-power.
(a) Estimates as to the total water-power (in terms of horse-power) capable of develop- mont.
(b) Horse-power developed during the year aml
up to date.
(c)
Number (and horen wer to be developed) of concessions for water-power granted 'during
the year.
6. A statement as to industrial establishments and manufactories, no far na not included under 1 to 5 carrying on basiness in the Colony, classified accord- ing to nature of industry, with a statement in each B to number of persons employed, the raw materials used, and the annual quantity and value of the output.
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SCHEDULE F.
CRIMINAL STATISTICE.
Returns from different Colonies should be uniform, so far as may be, provision being made for distinguish- ing any predominant local offence, e.g., praedial larceny, stealing live stock, homicide, arson of crops,
&o.
The grouping of offences should be uniform in nil tables in which they are shown, except so far as in special cases a heading may be sub-divided, e.g., the division of homicide into murder and manslaughter in Table IV.-A.
"Other offences against the person" should be sub- divided into "Other offences of violence against the person" and "Sexual offences." The first sub-divi-
QUESTION I.
sion should be preceded by "Assaults" which makes up nearly the whole of the cases under "Offeners against the person" in Table III.
Other offences" and " Miscellaneous offendes " comprehend too large a proportion of the total, and should be investigated with a view to sub-division, a.g., drunkenness should be distinguished. Sections B and C of Table IV. could be combined to economise space. and for greater completeness.
Results in the two classes of courts should be described, so far as possible, in identical terms.
In Table V. it should be made clear that the Resident Magistrate's Court is not a Summary Court.
SCHEDULE G. LUNATIC ASYLUM.
GENERAL STATISTICAL TABLE. For Statistical purposes it is important that another column should be introduced immediately after the first one, enquiring:-" Of those admitted during the year how many were believed to be suffering from their first attack of insanity?"
In the column "Discharged " the word "recovered would be a more appropriate term than "cured."
SPACE AND ACCOMMODATION TABLE. The words "The Average Amount of Cubic Space available for each Patient would be advantageously replaced by the words " Amount of Superficial Space allowed per Patient," and by introducing in an addi- tional column a request for the height of the rooms. It is possible for patients to be overcrowded and yet for them to have fairly adequate cubic space.
Water Supply.
And the Amount of Water available for each patient every day" might, with advantage, read Amount of Water available for all purposes ex- pressed in gallons, per patient, per day."
Lavatories.
It is dosirable to know not only the number of these, but also the proportion of the total number of basins in them all to the total number of patients.
Baths.
It is important to know the proportion of the total number of baths to the total number of patients; also how often the patients are bathed; how much water is allowed for each bath; whether fresh water is given to every patient, and whether the supply of hot water is adequate. Also whether a responsible official or atten.. dant is always present during the bathing operations, and whether he reports, in writing, to the Superin- tendent of the institution as to the existenco of any bruises, eruptions, deformities or other peculiarities he observes when patients are stripped. The two last- mentioned provisions are important aids in the pre- vention of rough usage and in the detection of disease. Latrines.
The total number of seats to the total number of patients should be given.
QUESTION II.
A very important matter in the interest of the patient, particularly as a check upon ill-usage, is to know whether a physical examination is made by a medical practitioner immediately on admission.
Restraint.
Neclusion should be defined on the Form as "the enforced isolation of a patient by day between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. by the closing by any means whatsoever of the door of the room in which the patient
iu."
It has been found in practice insufficient to limit seclusion only to when the patient is under lock and key. Further, the term seclusion should not apply to patients who are locked in their rooms at night, as all patients sleeping in single rooms are locked up.
The Board do not understand what the words "Restraint by Attendants" are intended to imply, and suggest the deletion of this column. The particut- lars should apply only to mechanical restraint, and it would be advisable divide the tables into two tables,
one headed "seclusion" and the other mechanical restraint," and to treat these matters and also Item III. each under a separate heading, leaving Item IV. to be included under a heading termed "Occupation and Recreation."
It is desirable to differentiate between the number of males and females who are restrained and secluded.
The information it is essential to obtain in the first column of the Mechanical Restraint Tablo is:—
(a) The number of persons, male and female separately, who have been subjected to
restraint.
(b) The total number of occasions restraint has
been resorted to.
(c) Total number of hours restraint has been em-
ployed in all cases combined.
(d) The longest period during which restraint has been employed without intermittance in any
one instance.
I. Information should also be obtained as to by whose authority patients are secluded.
II. The word "Methods "kinds."
is suggested instead of III. It is suggested that the heading for this para- graph should be "Casualties" and that it would be advisable to ask for short particulars of all cases of roughness or unkindness by attendants to patients, and for a short account of all serious casualties Bustained by patients.
IV. Airing Court" should be in the plural, as, in order to permit of proper classification, there ought, in every well-ordered, Asylum of any size, to be at least several of such courts in both male and female divi. sions.
OCCUPATION.
The Board think it should be assumed that the patients have means of amusing themselves, and. therefore, that it would be better to ask for particulas of the various means available for amusement and recreation and whether any special Recreation Room is provided.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
It might be well to enquire what particular denami- national services are provided, by whom the services are taken, and what is the average attendance at the services of each denomination.
QUESTION III.
Nil.
QUESTION IV. INSPECTION.
It is suggested that, if the patients in the asylum were divided into the following classes instead of into those at present set out on the form, for practical purposes, the information would be much more useful
I. Idiots and imbeciles,
of whom are Epileptics II. Presumably Recoverable III. Chronio and Presumably Irrecover-
able
Of whom are:-
(a) Turbulent and Dangerous.
(b) Suicidal.
(c) Sick and Infirm.
(d) General Paralytics;
(e) Epileptics.
Senila Dements.
(9) Quiet and able-bodied.
M. F. T.
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