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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1892.

Xamo and Nature

of the Prisons, (Whether *Common Gnol," "Penitentiary," &c.)

Mero "Lock-upu *

not to

be inserted.

Total Number of·l'risoners Committed in 1892.

For Debt.

For Safe 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 Year.

For more than.3 Months,

and less than One Year.

For 3 Months or less.

Number Committed for Debt, Want of Bail,

and Punishment,

Xumber 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).

"Victoria Gnol,"

Common Gaol, House of】

Correction, also TC-

ceives Prisoners sen- 5,040

tenced to l'enal Ber-[

+2

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1892.

The Number of Deaths during 1892,

302 4,699 973 212 257

83

3184,298

$13 28.07

312

F

I

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

Total,...

[*-----................... | 15,046

45

302 4,699 976 212

207

88

818 | 4,293

515

28.07 312 7

>[en,

4,699

42

267 4,300 473 202

231

77

284 4,020

470

Women,

181

$

Juveniles,

+

•

32

146

:

:

166

3 163

20

10

100

G

80 110

27

28.07 812

159

13

By "Penal Imprisonment." is meant Imprisonment inflicted as a substantive P’unishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of

Justice, ni distinguished from Imprisonment for Safo Custody, &e,

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 this separation complete? And if not, what is the sepnen- 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 calls uro thore; and how many associated warls?

IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in 'Gaol, how many eubic feet of space aro there for eucli prisoner during the hours of sleep?

V. How are the prisoners classified ?

Answers.

The Prison is not on the separato systom. Forty- six cells are on the soparato system and the majority of the European prisonors and a small number of Chinese prisoners sleep in separato cells, the remaindor 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 exerciso, the prisonors are constantly under the supervision of the Prison Officers.

Thero uro 190 colls, and 1 associnted ward for dlobitors.

J

The daily averago number of prisoners confined in the Gaol during the year 1892 was 516. The cubic measurement of all the cells combinod is 203,844 feet, therefore giving a cubic space of 396 feet to each pri- soner during the hours of sleep, passages and corridors not included.

According to the nature of their sontonces, their nationality, and occasionally according to their babits und tompernment, as follows, viz.:—

All the

Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.

Debtors.

Misdomcanants.

Ponal Imprisonment.

Prisoners on remund and for trial.

prisoners of the above classes aro separatod nt night, aud in tho yards, as much as possible.