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prisoners of all ages and sexes

for that period was 546; and from these may perhaps be deducted juveniles, women, debtors, non- criminal mendicants, defaulters, persons incarcerated for minor

police offences and a certain pro- portion of "gamblers". The ba-

lance of average mumbers, which I

have not the materials for esti-

mating correctly, should be re-

garded as the basis on which to

calculate the requirements of the

Colony in the matter of cellular

accommodation.

5. The present prison Build-

ings if remodelled on the separate

system would provide for about

280 prisoners, but whether it

would not be expedient to leave

a part of the buildings in their

present form, so as to accommodate

those classes of prisoners in res

pect of whom, the separate system

may not be deemed indispensable,t

a question which must be decided

in Hongkong.

6.

In any case it will be

necessary to acquire and to make

use of space additional to that

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