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(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

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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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Total

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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

$

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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