CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 685

area at least. See the despatch 07,081 6811.82 Mauritius, a

Au

may

well be sent to

anticipated, of making the prison less attractive. The three proposals now put forward - 1. to enlarge the present building 2. to build a supplementary block elsewhere 3. to build a wholly new prison elsewhere.

1 evidently

2 is

an instalment of the scheme contemplated by this

the despatch on

$10331.8

which

copy of

This will Hongkong.

ofain diminish the accommodation, which is already shown to be straitened but I think it will be better to go to

Even so

3 and is

ffice

See

I think however that our best chance, in

view of the way has been shirked, is to

in which the whole question

accept 1. if

possible. The present building is healthy, overcrowded, and in spite of cramping

the space I believe it will be better to house and add to it than to build elsewhere

for the reason that it is more

Simply for

likely to be done

if

for

the

time being

Sanctioned. I think

we must put up

with

Some associated words and have only

a certain number

of separate cells; and

these cells must be larger than M.

Brown contemplates.

850 feet in cubic

work on

the present site. With

Fills

First of all however we had better ask Sir M. Ommanney to look at

the plans and give his opinion, & at the same time write to the Home Office for copies of the drawings of Wormwood Scrubs or some other model prison.

We might also ask Sir C. Smith to send plans of the Singapore jail, and the Ceylon govt to send plans of some well-built prison in that island and drawings of the cells devised by Mr Vine if they have proved satisfactory. See Ceylon Paton 1880 page Adm. 1207.

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24 out

138.0.

29.Oct.

PT.O.