# COLONIAL REPORTS.-ANNUAL.
1887-1903
121
9
Of the above total for 1893 there were 3,777 men, 138 women, and 95 juveniles under 16 years of age, and the number of penal offenders may be further classified as follows:-
First conviction 2,970
Second 378
Third 160
Fourth (or more) conviction 218
Total 3,726
The cost of the gaol amounted to $54,748.84, and the average daily number of prisoners confined during the year was 458.
After deducting from the cost mentioned the profit on earnings by industrial labour, which amounted to $2,726.76, it appears that the average cost of each prisoner was slightly over 31 cents per diem, as compared with 28 cents in 1892.
The extension to the gaol, which is intended to facilitate the introduction of the system of separate confinement, was commenced towards the end of the year.
Of serious crimes committed in the Colony there were three cases of murder, in one of which the culprit was executed; in the second case the murderer escaped to China; and in the third one of the men engaged was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for manslaughter. There were also 19 cases of robbery with violence, but the statistics on the whole show a decrease of over 8 per cent. in serious crimes reported to the police.
## Hospitals.
During the year 1,999 cases were treated in the Civil Hospital, Lunatic Asylums, and Women's Hospital, &c. Of these, 1,835 were treated in the Civil Hospital, of whom 67 died, amounting to 3.7 per cent. In the Lunatic Asylums 40 cases were treated, of which 5 died, and 19 were cured or relieved, and in the Women's Hospital there were 63 cases, of whom none died and 60 were cured.
In the Small-pox Hospitals 61 cases resulted in the death of 8 and the cure of 49 persons during the year.
## Public Works.
No extraordinary Public Work was completed in 1893, but considerable progress was made with the New Central Market, Slaughter House, Sheep and Pig Depôts, Sewerage of Victoria, and the Water Supply in Kowloon.
As regards the Praya Reclamation, in the early part of the year a proposal was made by certain of the marine lot holders that the undertaking in regard to sections on which work had not been commenced should be temporarily postponed. It was ultimately
1887-1903
121
9
COLONIAL REPORTS.-ANNUAL.
Of the above total for 1893 there were 3,777 men, 138 women, and 95 juveniles under 16 years of age, and the number of penal offenders may be further classified as follows:-
First conviction
Second
Third
35
Fourth (or more) conviction
Total
2,970
378
160
218
3,726
The cost of the gaol amounted to $54,748.84, and the average daily number of prisoners confined during the year was 458.
After deducting from the cost mentioned the profit on earnings by industrial labour, which amounted to $2,726.76, it appears that the average cost of each prisoner was slightly over 31 cents per diem, as compared with 28 cents in 1892.
The extension to the gaol, which is intended to facilitate the introduction of the system of separate confinement, was commenced towards the end of the year.
Of serious crimes committed in the Colony there were three cases of murder, in one of which the culprit was executed; in the second case the murderer escaped t› China; and in the third one of the men engaged was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for manslaughter. There were also 19 cases of robbery with violence, but the statistics on the whole show a decrease of over 8 per cent. in serious crimes reported to the police.
Hospitals.
During the year 1,999 cases were treated in the Civil Hospital Lunatic Asylums, and Women's Hospital, &c. Of these, 1,835 were treated in the Civil Hospital, of whom 67 died, amounting to 37 per cent. In the Lunatic Asylums 40 cases were treated, of which 5 died, and 19 were cured or relieved, and in the Women's Hospital there were 63 cases, of whom none died and 60 were cured.
In the Small-pox Hospitals 61 cases resulted in the death of 8 and the cure of 49 persons during the year.
Public Works.
No extraordinary Public Work was completed in 1893, but considerable progress was made with the New Central Market, Slaughter House, Sheep and Pig Depôts, Sewerage of Victoria, and the Water Supply in Kowloon.
year
As regards the Praya Reclamation, in the early part of the a proposal was made by certain of the marine lot holders that the undertaking in regard to sections on which work had not been commenced should be temporarily postponed. It was ultimately
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