CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 306

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issue of tea be made. The vile in the Gaol is that all prisoners, excepting Europeans, receive the dist

issued to Chinest. I think

that a distinction might properly be made in

of

in favor

favor

Manila Seamen or others,

who have been accustomed

to European diet.

With regard to the

entire Gaol

accommodation,

I consider it much too small for the number of prisoners. I do not consider that there is

Sufficient space within 305 the Gool walls to erect

additional buildings -

any There is only

used

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one cell usually

for female prisoners .

occasion I found

On one occasion

light women in that cell. They complained to me of the heat, and I had some of them removed to another: all. This was an extraording circumstance; because generally there are not more than two or three female prisoners. There is no Hospital ward

for femalce . The privied