AnnualReport-1925 — Page 412

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During the year:-

1,301 Prisoners, were found unfit for Hard Labour on Admission

36 Prisoners required Hospital treatment on admission.

12 Prisoners were discharged to the Tung Wah Hospital on the expiration of their sentences for the following reasons: --Tuberculosis 9, Chronic Opium Poisoning I, and Chronic Bronchitis 2.

Prisoners were sent to the Government Civil Hospital re- quiring treatment other than was available at the Gaol Hospital.

4 Prisoners were sent to the Lunatic Asylum.

1 Prisoner was sent to the Leper Colony at Canton.

580 Prisoners (Male) required Hospital treatment during the

year.

58 Prisoners (Female) required Hospital treatment during the

year.

2 Female Prisoners gave birth to living children during the

year, in the prison.

(Daily Average of Female Prisoners in Gaol was 50.)

Deaths :-

Totalled 28, and were due to the following conditions:-

Tuberculosis

12

Pulmonary

6

Generalised

5

Meningitic

1

Dysentery

8

4

2

Beri Beri Pneumonia

The Opium Habit supplied 54 cases showing Acute symptoms of collapse and requiring hospital treatment, whilst 559 prisoners required to be given the drug in gradually diminishing doses to allay the subacute symptoms resulting from withdrawal of the opium necessitated by the removal of the individual from his usual environment and easy reach of it.

The large number requiring to be treated thus, in addition, as outpatients is further explained by the fact, that in dealing with masses of men who are more or less universally under the