HONGKONG.
REPORT OF THE ACTING SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTORIA GAOL FOR 1895.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of
His Excellency the Governor.
99
No.
96
No. 36.
VICTORIA GAOL, HONGKONG, 28th January, 1896.
SIR, I have the honour to transmit, for His Excellency the Governor's information, the Annual Report on the Gaol Department for 1895.
2. The total number of admissions was 5,014, of which 673 had been previously convicted. 3. The daily average number of prisoners in the Gaol was a fraction over 472 as compared with 455 in 1894, but as the admissions in 1895 exceeded those in the former year by 1,101, the inference is that the number of prisoners with long sentences is still steadily decreasing.
4. There were 5,365 prison offences as compared with 5,120 in 1894.
The profit in industrial labour during the year amounts to $1,936.54.
5. The addition to the Gaol consisting of 155 separate cells was completed in December last, so that it is now possible to confine a large number of prisoners separately during the night.
6. Steps are being taken to improve the prison for the accommodation of females, and also for the erection of suitable quarters for the European officers. Both these improvements have been long required.
7. The staff of the Gaol has been reorganized during the year, chiefly by the engagement of a number of Indian Turnkeys, and a corresponding reduction in the European staff. Mr. CRAIG joined as Warden in February, and a few other officers have since come out from England.
8. I am glad to be able to report that the staff by these changes is now in a very efficient con- dition.
The usual returns accompany this report.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
The Honourable
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Superintendent.
(A.).
VICTORIA GAOL.
Return of Reports for talking, idling, short oakum picking, &c., in the years 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1895.
1895.
1892.
1893.
1891.
MONTH.
Daily average number | Daily average number | Daily average number
in Prison, 515.
in Prison, 458.
in Prison, 455.
Daily average number in Prison, 472.
January,
237
264
122
February,
316
150
166
301 314.
March,
351
330
209
223
April,
253
240
130
236
May,
142
198
223
295
June,
129
138
179
311
July,
96
242
211
447
August,
224
211
187
374
September,......
142
204
410
346
October,..
108
79
441
309
November,
129
94
363
273
December,
259
132
205
225
Total,
2,386
2,282
2,896
3,654
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