CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4] — Page 397

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exposed, and relieving them from onerous duties which occupy them to the exclusion of more legitimate exertions for the maintenance of Law and Order is becoming apparent than ever --

I would urge most respectfully that in dealing with crime the system which is inaugurating must be regarded as a whole, and the abstraction from the arch of any one stone may be fatal to its solidity.

I quit that subject however for the present and in conclusion state in reference to the supposed limited space allotted in Victoria gaol to each prisoner, alluded to by Carnarvon, that not merely is the space ample for more than three hundred additional Chinese prisoners but that no fair inference can be drawn from the cubic space in such a cell, as the doors communicate with lofty and broad corridors, ventilated by windows and gratings at one side and in each door, at the opposite side, so that there is always a current of fresh air passing.

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exposed, and relieving them from onerous duties which occupy them to the exclusion of more legitimate exertions for the maintenance of Law and Order is becoming apparent than ever -- I would urge most respectfully that in dealing with crime the system which is inaugurating must be regarded as a whole, and the abstraction from the arch of any one stone may be fatal to its solidity. I quit that subject however for the present and in conclusion state in reference to the supposed limited space allotted in Victoria gaol to each prisoner, alluded to by Carnarvon, that not merely is the space ample for more than three hundred additional Chinese prisoners but that no fair inference can be drawn from the cubic space in such a cell, as the doors communicate with lofty and broad corridors, ventilated by windows and gratings at one side and in each door, at the opposite side, so that there is always a current of fresh air passing. Page 394
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exposed, and reliving them from onerousduties which occupy there to the exclusion of more legitimate exertions for the maintenance of Law a

mare

and Order is be

becoming

apparent than ever --

I would move over respectfully

wrge that

I

in dealing with crime the system which at inaugurating must be

QUTT

regarded

da

a

whole, and the

abstraction from the arch

of any

one stone

may

ве

fatal to its solidity

18.

I quit that subject however for the present and

in third

conclude

by stating in

394

referance.

Cameron to the supposed limited space

allotted in Victoria gaol to each.

5 Zet tart.

the both

Lord

prisoner, alluded to by Carnarvon, that not merely

is the space ample for

More

than three hundred additional

chinese prisoners but that no fair inference

can

be drawn

from the cubic space in suck

cell, as the doors communicate.

with lofty

und are

and broad corridors,

venticated by windows 1 gratings

at one side and

in

each door, at the opposite side.

so that there is

there is always

current of fresh air

a

passing

EX

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