CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 79

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Prisons Depart- ment. (33).

Medical Depart- ment. (38).

reductions, replacement of "Europeans" by Russians (a proposal from which the Chairman dissents); and

increase in working hours and in period qualifying

for leave.

The Commission offer certain observations

on the site and plans for the new prison.

Ten European warders should be abolished,

to be replaced by twenty Indian Guards.

Better quality Indians should be obtain-

ed by recruiting in India: it should then be

possible largely to replace European warders by

Indians.

revised.

Indian acting pay arrangements to be

One post of European hospital supervisor

to be abolished.

When the new gaol is built, the financial

aspect of gaol-printing should be considered.

Prison population could be reduced by

making fewer arrests for petty "crimes", by more frequent use of power of "binding over" first offenders. Habitual offenders should receive longer

terms of imprisonment or banished. Banishment

procedure should be accelerated.

Replacement of Europeans by Chinese should

be extended to Bacteriologists and Government

Analyst's Departments. Substitution of Chinese

for European nursing sisters to be pushed on as

rapidly as possible.

There is room for more co-ordination

between the various medico-public health authorities.

Certain