CO129-561-12 Report of Superintendent of Police 1936 28-5-1937 - 7-12-1937 — Page 12

Appendix L.

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PRISONS

FOR THE YEAR 1936.

The number of prisoners received into prison during the year, and the corresponding number for 1935 were as follows:

1935.

Convicted by Ordinary Courts Debtors

14,790

1936. 14,801

76

50

On remand or in default of finding surety.

1,274

1,255

Total

16,140

16,106

2. The percentage of convicted prisoners admitted to prison with previous convictions recorded against them was 15.9 as compared with 14.1 for the previous year,

3. 96) prisoners were convicted by Police Courts in the New Territories against 774 for the previous year.

4. The following table shows the number of convicts in custody on the 31st December for the past ten years, and the percentage of the total number of prisoners in custody to the estimated population of Hong Kong.

Year.

Estimated population.

Number

of

convicts.

Percentage

of

population.

Daily average number of prisoners.

1,189

Percentage

population.

of

136

1927

890,400*

392

.044

1928

1,075,690*

352

.033

1,071

.100

1929

1,075,690* 331

.031

1,075 .100

1930

1,143,510*

256

.022

1,175 .103

1931

849,751!

202

.024

1,102

.130

1932

900,796

173

.013

1,114 .124

1933

922,643 162

.018

1,472

.160

V.G. 839

1934

944,492

157

.017

L.C.K. 593 .170

F.P.

178

V.G.

980

1935

966,341

217

.022

L.C.K. 642

.186

F.P.

174

V.G. 1,127

1936

988,190

297

.03

L.C.K.

600

.194

F.P.

190

*

Probably overestimated.

† Census of 1931.