Improvement of prison condition throughout the province of Che king. is ordered by: the Provinciat Government in a circular dispatch issued yesterday to District Magis trates. This measure is largely: tho result of @ recent inspection trip taken by the Acting Chairman the Provincial Government, Generat Chiang Peh-chen, to various pacts in the province, The order specifies that:—(2) Sine the prisons are old azat dilapidated, immediate measures should be taken by tha magistrates to remodel them with a. view making them more habitable; (2) 'Sanitary' regulations in, the should be strictly venfore=
(8) All worship of idols in pets sons should be prohibited as will not in any way atong for the lerimes of the prisoners; (4) Workshops should be opened in all prisons; and (5) Female' prisoners should nat be allowed to do needlework in: tiva attempts to commit sui cide with such tools as are at their posal have been reported—Kua Mi
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