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272. Plans were also approved by Government for the provision of cells for leper convicts at Hong Kong Prison. This will do away with the highly unsatisfactory system prevailing at the moment whereby a leper is convicted for theft or attempted murder, sent to prison, released from prison immediately and transferred to the leper settlement from which he escapes without difficulty to repeat once more the felony or misdemeanour for which he was originally sent to prison, and so on any number of times!
273. The following table shows the fate of the lepers admitted during 1938:-
Table XXVII.
Discharged ... 20 Transferred to Sheklung ... 72 Discharged at own request ... 91 Escaped ... 17 Died ... 133 Remaining at end of 1938 ... 333VII. PRISONS AND MENTAL HOSPITAL.
1. Prisons.
274. Hong Kong Prison at Stanley, the main prison in the Colony, has cell accommodation for 1,612 males. The female prison at Lai Chi Kok, on the mainland has accommodation for 100.
275. The total number of admissions to all prisons during 1938 was 15,046, of whom 13,0451 were males and 2,0012 females.
276. The prison at Stanley possesses a hospital with fifty-seven beds, six cells for isolation cases and one padded cell, Lai Chi Kok Gaol has nine beds for sick prisoners. Special wards are also available in the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals.
277. The total admissions to the prison hospital during the year were 1,797, the daily average of hospital patients being forty-six.
There were seventy-three deaths in 1938 among male prisoners and one among the females. Seventeen cases were transferred from Stanley during the year, eight to the Queen Mary Hospital, four to the Mental Hospital and five to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, the last suffering from smallpox. Thirty-six cases were sent to the Queen Mary Hospital for X-ray, only one of whom was detained for treatment for an intracapsular fracture of the femur. Ten prisoners were released on medical grounds, all being lepers.
278. Nine cases were transferred from Lai Chi Kok Prison to Kowloon Hospital and one to the Queen Mary Hospital. Of these cases three died. Four female prisoners were released on medical grounds, three being lepers and one suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. There were eight normal labours during the year, as compared with fifteen in 1937.
1 and 2. Rather over 42,000 and 5,000 respectively in prisons in England and Wales in 1937.
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272. Plans were also approved by Government for the provision of cells for leper convicts at Hong Kong Prison. This will do away with the highly unsatisfactory system prevailing at the moment whereby a leper is convicted for theft or attempted murder, sent to prison, released from prison immediately and transferred to the leper settlement from which he escapes without difficulty to repeat once more the felony or misdemeanour for which he was originally sent to prison, and so on any number of times!
273. The following table shows the fate of the lepers admitted during 1938:-
Table XXVII.
Discharged
Transferred to Sheklung
Discharged at own request
Escaped
Died
Remaining at end of 1938 ...
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20
72
91
17
133
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VII. PRISONS AND MENTAL HOSPITAL.
1. Prisons.
274. Hong Kong Prison at Stanley, the main prison in the Colony, has cell accommodation for 1,612 males. The female prison at Lai Chi Kok, on the mainland has accommodation for 100.
275. The total number of admissions to all prisons during 1938 was 15,046, of whom 13,045* were males and 2,001*2 females.
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276. The prison at Stanley possesses a hospital with fifty-seven beds, six cells for isolation cases and one padded cell, Lai Chi Kok Gaol has nine beds for sick prisoners. Special wards are also available in the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals.
277. The total admissions to the prison hospital during the year were 1,797, the daily average of hospital patients being forty-six.
There were seventy-three deaths in 1938 among male prisoners and one among the females. Seventeen cases were transferred from Stanley during the year, eight to the Queen Mary Hospital, four to the Mental Hospital and five to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, the last suffering from smallpox. Thirty-six cases were sent to the Queen Mary Hospital for X-ray, only one of whom was detained for treatment for an intracapsular fracture of the femur. Ten prisoners were released on medical grounds, all being lepers.
278. Nine cases were transferred from Lai Chi Kok Prison to Kowloon Hospital and one to the Queen Mary Hospital. Of these cases three died. Four female prisoners were released on medical grounds, three being lepers and one suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. There were eight normal labours during the year, as compared with fifteen in 1937.
*1 and *2. Rather over 42,000 and 5,000 respectively in prisons in England and Wales in 1937.
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