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Name and Nature

of the Prisons. (Whether "Compion Gaol," "Penitentiary," &c.) Mero "Lock-ups" not to be inserted.

Total Number of Persons Committed in 1872.

For Debt.

For safe Custody till Trial,

or for want of Security.

For purposes of Penal Imprisonment.*

Once.

Twice.

Thrice or more.

For five Years or more.

For One Year or more, but

less than Fivo Years.

For more than 3 Months, ! and less than One Year.

For Three Months or less.

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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1872.

Number Committed

for Debt, Want of Bail, and

Punishment.

Number

of those Committed

who

have been Previously

Convicted,

Number of Persons Committed to

Penal Imprisonment,* including

"Penal Servituule" (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

Punishment.)

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during

the year 1872.

The Daily Average on the Sick List,

The Number of Dentlis during 1879.

"Victoria Gnol," 6,268 55 | 770

Common Gnol,

House of Correc- tion, also receives Prisoners sen- lenced to Penal Servitude, &c., tc.

5,437 261 76 20 81 977 404

4,075 525 855

0.97, 10

Ilera All up the columus

TOTAL,.... 6,208 55 776

5,437 261 76

20

81

277

104

4,075525 350

0.97 10

Men,.... 5,731 53 667

67

2

2 2 2

13

5,011 228 56

281 14 2

16| 79 | 266

403

4,203 505

1

277 15

356 0.97 10

142

99 18 13

135

[

in respect of Women, 379

the whole

Colony. Juveniles, 158

By

"Penal Imprisonment" is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a sentence

of a Court of Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment for safe custody, &c.

THESE QUESTIONS ARE TO BE FILLED UP IN RESPECT OF EACH PRISON IN THE COLONY.

Questions.

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?

II. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in mesociation?

III. How many cells are there; and how many associated wards?

IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?

Ånswers.

The prison is not on the separate system, but long sentenced European prisoners (i.c., over six months) are in separate cells at night.

Chinese and Indian prisoners are in association by night and also by day, but are separated according to class and nationality at night and on the works,

All the cells of the prison have iron gates through which the actions of the prisoners can be seen at all hours of the night and day. While on the works and in the exercise yards, the prisoners are constantly under the supervision of Indian and European Turnkeys.

There are 163 cells in the prison and 4 associated words; 34 cells are on the separate system, 19 cells on the associated system.

The daily average number of prisoners confined during the year 1872 was 525. The cubic space for macht prisoner during the hours of sleep is about 700 cubic feet, (ie., if the space in corridors und passages are included in the measurement.)