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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1885.

Name and Nature

of the Prisons, (Whether

" Common Gaol,"

" Penitentiary," &c.)

Here" Lock-ups,"

not to

be inserted.

Number Committed for Debt, Want of Bail,

and Punishment.

Number of those

Committed

who have been

Number of Persons Committed to Penal Imprisonment,”

including "Penal Servitude,"

previously Convicted. (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

Punishment.)

Total Number of Prisoners Committed in 1885,

For Debt.

For Safe Custody till Trial

or for Want of Becurity.

For Purposes of Penal

"Victoria Gaol,”

Common Gaol, House of

Correction, also ге- 8,610

ceives Prisoners sen- tenced to Penal Ser-

vitude, &c., *******

Imprisonment.

Once.

Twice.

Thrice or more.

For Five Years or more.

For One Year or more, but

less than Five Years,

For more than 8 Months,

and less than One Year.

For 3 Months or less.

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1885.

The Number of Deaths during 1885.

60

084 2,866 172 74

190

18

119 836 2.803 630

16.88

255

Total,.................................

GO 3,010

6842,866 172 74

190

48

119

396 2,863 630

16.88

255 2

Men,

ANNA ------

3,327 68

601 2,668 166

72

181

48

115

8162,178 508.00)

Women.

Juveniles,...

147

69 76

TH

136

14

122

*

:

મ

:

70

6.00 16.88

255

2

9

48

4 14 115 16.00

* By "Fenal Imprisonment" is meant Imprisonment inflicted as a substantive Punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of

Justice, as distinguished from Imprisonment for Bafe 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 this separation complete? And if not, what is the sopara- 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 bow 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?

V. How are the prisoners classified ?

Answers.

The Prison in not on the separate system. Forty- six cells are on the separate system and the majority of the European prisoners and a small number of Chinese prisoners sleep in separate cells, the remainder are in association day and night.

All the cells of the prison have iron gatos, through which the prisoners can be seen at night. While at labour or at exercise, the prisoners are constantly under the supervision of the Prison Officers.

There are 190 cells, and 1 associated ward for debtors.

The daily average number of prisoners confined in the Gool during the year 1886 was 580 and the cubic measurement of all the cells combined is 138,948 cubic feet, therefore giving a cubic space of 262 feet to each prisoner during the hours of sloep, passages and corridors not included.

According to the nature of their sentences, their nationality, and occasionally according to their habits and temperament, as follows, viz. :—

Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.

Debtors.

Misdemeanants.

Penal Imprisonment.

Prisoners on romand and for trial.

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