CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 575

As to European Prisoners most of those confined

in Viétona Gaol are rather of the class technically known as accidental offender such as sailors and

soldiers to commetting Assaults 10, than for robbery and deshonesty. of opinion that,

we

Are

although the punishment

referred to a bove, en ref.

Creuet

to Chinese could

be very easily

introduced

for Europeans if required,

ther

Ed

prove

very

detrimental to the hears

of the prisoners in this almate.

It must not be

forgotten that things.

have

materially altered

Since 1865.

Stone Crettes

Island Prison has been

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closed, and the whole of the Prisoners have been transferred to Victoria

-Gaol, from which there

is greater facility for

J

sending them out

sending hard laber on

to

The Reads,

and this la bor is carried.

out in

et.

rigid and

much more

and systematic

than it was

previous to 1865. regard

اگسسته

In

d to the

present sanitary

state

of the Gool it is only

to

state

that

necessary there has been only

one death this year. and that there is not

a sinale medical case

err

Hospital.

The following well make this more clear