CO885-(2-3) — Page 644

151

BAHAMAS.

No. 35.

PUBLIC

RECORD OFFICE

Reference →

C.O.885

3 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

Governor Robinson to the Earl of Carnarvon.—(Received August 7.)

(No. 154. Bahamas.) My Lord,

Government House, Nassau, June 30, 1875.

IN compliance with the instructions contained in the Earl of Kimberley's Circular, despatch of the 30th January, 1872, I have the honour to forward to your Lordship Returus relating to Crime and Prison Discipline, together with the Reports therein called

for.

In my Report on the Blue Book for 1874, I referred at length to these Returns.

I have, &c.

(Signed) WILLIAM ROBINSON

J

Inclosure 1 in No. 35.

Guols and Prisoners.

STATISTICAL RETURN for the Prisons of the Bahamas for 1874.

Name and Nature of the Prisons. (Whether **Common Gaol,'*

"Penitentiary," &c.) Mere Lock-ups" not to be inserted.

Number Committed fur Debt,

Want of Bail, and

Punishment.

Total Number of Persons Committed

in 1874.

For Debt.

For safe Custody till

Trial, or for Waut of

-Áltangaz

For

Number of those

Committed

who have been

previously Con.

victed.

Once.

Twice.

Number of Persons Committed

to Penal Imprisonment, including Penal Servitude" (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe

Thrice or more.

For Five Years or

more.

Punishment).

For One Year or

any

For more than Three

more, but less than

Months and less than

Five Years.

204-BUK)

For Three Months

or less.

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital

during the Year 1874.

The Daily Average on the Sick List.

The Number

Deaths during 1874.

Nassau Prison, situate in

344

southern suburbs of the

City of Nassau, and is a

Common G■ol.

Topl

Men Women

Juveniles

2 32 310 40 19 100 2

12

2N 269 67.33

23

1 66

1

23

268 67.33 23

1'66

1

12

22

5

73 6.93 2

14632-81 21 1.61 1

*05

1

49 7-69

344

2 32 310 40 19 100

207

25

85 1 52

461

181

51

བྷ་ཀླུམཆ

ea

2

11

al

2

78 12 3

4.4

5

5

22::

12

By "Penal Imprisonnient" is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment för safe custody, &c.

[These Questions are to be filled up in respect of each Prison in the Colony.]

Q. 1. If the prison is on the separate system, is the separation complete? And if not, what is the separation enforced by day and night respectively?—A. The Nassau Prison is conducted on the separate system, the prisoners being associated only when at work.

Q. 2. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association ?-f. The prisoners are sent out to work during the

h