Prison thus made consisting of a number of large blocks separated by alley ways from 20 to 25 feet wide. Again a large number of the prisoners would still be kept in associated wards, and as it is considered that separation would be especially effective in the case of Chinese, an arrangement which after considerable expenditure still fails in great measure to accomplish this object cannot be considered satisfactory.
I am accordingly come to no other conclusion than that the whole or part of a new prison must be built upon a fresh site, and I consider that the broad plan suggested by Mr Brown should be adopted and that a block should be built, providing separate accommodation for (say) 200 or 250 prisoners, avowedly only as an instalment of a complete new prison.
The same course, you will remember, was followed in Mauritius, and a reference to my despatch no 91 of the 9th of June 1887 will show that three years ago it was suggested that "
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Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
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