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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1890.

Name and Nature

of the Prisons, (Whether

"Common Gaol,"

"Penitentiary," &c.)

Merc "Lock-ups,

not to

be inserted.

Total Number of Prisoners Committed in 1890.

For Debt.

For Sale Custody till Trial or for Want of Security.

¡For Purposes of l'enal Imprisonment.

Once.

Twice.

Thrice or more.

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 3 Months or less,

Number Committed for Debt,

Number of those Committed

Want of Bail,

who have beer.

and Punishment.

Xumber of Persons Committed to

Penal Imprisonment,*

including

"Penal Servitude,"

previously Convicted. (if that term is used in the

| Colony to describe any

T'unishment.)

"Victoria Gaol,”- Common Gaol, House of

Correction, leo TC- ceives Prisoners sen- tenced to Penal Scr- vitude, &c.,

3,144 78

Total,............................. 3,444 78

Men,

Women,

Juveniles,

437 2.029

260 103 109

15

The Daily Average Number in Prison,

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1890.

The Number of Deaths during 1890.

3272,531 566

86.01. 3GS

437 2,029 260 103

3,218 70 391 2,757

109

!

G

65

3272,581

566 | 36,01 | 368 $

242 101 107

G

2

3102,376

5467

119

107

:

*

to

71

101

17

-

:

12

66

36.01

.:.

By "Penal Imprisonment” is meant Imprisonment inflicted as a substantive Punishment in pursuanee 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,

I. If the Prison is on the separate system, is this separation complete ? And if not, what is the sepurn- tion enforced by day and night rospectively ?

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 wanls ?

IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in Gaol, how many cubic fort of spare are there for each prisoner during the hours of sicep?

V. How are the prisoners classified ?

Answers.

The Prison is 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 gates, through which the prisoners can be soon at night. While at labour or at exorcise, the prisoners are constantly under the supervision of the Prison Officers.

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

The daily avenge number of prisoners confined in the Gaol during the year 1890 was 566. The cubic measurement of all the cells combined is 203,844 feel, therefore giving a cubic space of 360 feet to ench pri- soner during the hours of sleep, 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.

Misdemeapants.

Penal Imprisonment.

Prisoners ou remand and for trial.

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