Prisoners who have been sentenced daring the proceeding week are sent down to the Gaol every Wednesday morning. They are taken in the first place to the reception room, where their sentences are entered into the prison books, and carefully checked by the Police and Court records, After these formalities the prisoner removes his clothes—which are boiled and kept for him unless unfit for farther use—bas a disiofectsnt bath, ison winter, jacket and trousers, a thick cotton padded suit, shoes and cap, all of a slate grey colour, stamped in white with the tripartite symbol of the Municipality. If his sentence is of over two and under three years, the convict wears narrow red baad on the lapel of his jacket; for sentences of three years and he must suspend from his neck, three blankets, a Chinese Bible, and a face-mel. Each cell contains three wooden blocks—nailed to the floor—to serve 8 pillows, aod an ordure bucket.
The rales of the prison are next read over to the prisoner, and carefully explained to him. He is told that he must wash his face, feet and bands twice daily, that be mast not expectorate anywhere in the prison except into the spittoons provided, that he must obey all lawful orders of the Gaol officers, not talk to or quarrel with other prisoners, secrete sny article whatever on his person or in his cell, or infringe any of the other rules of the Gaol. The system of marking which will be r to later is explained to him, and he is made to understand that his sentence may be materially reduced by exemplary conduct.
On Wednesday afternoons one of the Assistant Health Officers visits the
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