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Divine service is performed once a week for Roman Catho- CHAP. XIX. 

 lies, and twice a week, Sundays and Wednesdays, for Protestants. pjj~s_ 



There is a small library of useful and instructive books available 



for the use of the well-conducted prisoners. Each prisoner, if a —instruction. 

 Protestant, is supplied with a Bible and Book of Common Prayer ; 

 and, if a Roman Catholic, with a Douay Bible and Garden of 

 the Soul. 



The total cost of guarding and maintaining the prisoners in the —cost. 

 European Jail for the year 1877 was as follows : — 



RS. A. P. 



Establishment 7,206 15 8 



Rations 4,059 11 3 



Clothing 1,181 7 



Contingencies 1,430 10 5 



Hospital charges (including cost of 



medicines) ... ... ... ... 117 1 



Total Rupees ... 13,995 6 11 



or Rupees 559-2-0 per head of average strength. 



The establishment consists of 1 Keeper, 5 Warders, 1 :Mes- —establish. 

 senger, 1 Medical OjBBcer (also in charge of one of the two 

 Ootacamand divisions), and 1 Assistant Apothecary, the Joint 

 Magistrate of the station being ex-officio Superintendent. There 

 is no Police guard over the prison, the warders having to act in 

 the double capacity of guard and turnkey. 



District Jail, Ootacamand. 



The building was originally the old Travellers' Bungalow, District Jail. 

 subsequently utilized as a Cutcherry for the Principal Sudder 

 Amin, and was ultimately, in 1856, converted into a District 

 Jail under the charge of the above officer, with a requisite 

 establishment of subordinates. For many years the Joint Magis- 

 trate has been ex-officio Superintendent of the jail. 



The jail is well situated on a hill nearly in the centre of Ootaca- —situation, 

 mand. The site is in every way good, except as regards its 

 proximity to a bazaar, the sanitary condition of which is any- 

 thing but satisfactory. 



The jail is not on the standard plan. It consists of a range of 

 buildings facing the west, and contains ten wards and one under- 

 trial ward, watchman's room, and at the northern end four solitary 

 cells. There are four kitchens at the southern end, and at the 

 north-western end latrines, &c., with earth stores. Opposite the 

 main building is a range of stores and a workshop. The whole 

 is surrounded by a wall about 7 feet high. The hospital is in a 



