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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1873.

Name and Nature of the PrisonE. (Whether "Common Gaol," "Penitentiary," &c.) Mere "Lock-ups" not to be inserted.

Number Committed

Number

of those Committed

for Debt, Want of Bail, and

who have been Previously

Punishment.

Convicted.

Total Number of Persons Committed in 1873.

For Debt.

For safe Custody till Trial, or for want of Security.

For purposes of Penal Imprisonment.*

Once.

Twice.

Thrice or more.

Number of Persona Committed to

Penal Imprisonment,* including

"Penal Servitude"

(if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

Punishment).

For Five Years or more.

For One Year or more, but less than Five Years.

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

For Three Months or less.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the year 1873.

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Daily Average on the Sick List.

The Number of Deaths during 1878.

"Victoria Gaol,”- Common Gaol, House of Cor. rection, also re-

ceives Prisoners

4,280 39 640 3,607

01 32 18

CI

2

133

257 3,215 388

148 20.62 7

sentenced to Pe-

nal Servitude, &c., &c.

TOTAL,...... 4,280 33

640 3,007

01] 32 [18

2

133

257 3,215 388

148 20.62 7

Here ill up

Men, 3,500 31

470 3,054

124

223 2,705 301

the columns

in respect of Women,

470 2

124 344

01 32 18

0

20

312 15

148 20.627

the whole Colony.

Juveniles, 250

41

200

3

8

198 12

By "

"l'enal Imprisonment" is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a

seutence 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,

I. If the prison is on the separate system, is the separation complete ? And if not, what is the separa- tion 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

association ?

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

IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in gool, how many cubic feet of space are there for eacli prisonor during the hours of sleep?

Answers.

The prison is not on the separate system, but long sentenced European prisoners (i. e. 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 European and Indian Turnkeys,

There are 108 cells in the prison and 4 associated wards; 34 cells are on the separate system, 120 cells on the associated system.

The daily average number of prisoners confined during the year 1873, was 388 (as against 625 in the previous year). The cubic space for each prisoner (iD 1873) during the hours of sleep was 147 cubic feet (as against 700 cubic feet in the previous year), if space in passage and corridors be included in the measurement.