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MANUAL OF THE NiLAOIRI DISTRICT. 



— accommo 

 dation. 



— buildings. 



— industries. 



CHAP. XIX. separate yard, and contains four wards and accommodation for 26 i 

 Prisons, patients. The wards, both jail and hospital, are generally well 

 ventilated. There is also a separate building with a yard sur- 

 rounding for civil debtors, European and Native. 



The jail is wanting in separate accommodation for juveniles, 

 and in a separate yard for females to work in during the day. 



The jail is calculated to accommodate 72 convict males, 

 10 convict females, 3 under-trials, and 6 civil debtors ; total 91. 



The area of ground occupied by the jail premises measures 

 about 70 acres and is thus utilized up : — On the east and apart from 

 the building is the vegetable garden, manured with poudrette, 

 and producing excellent vegetables for the use of the prisoners. 

 There is also on this side of the jail a temporary jail which 

 is used for short-term prisoners. It is roofed in with corrugated 

 iron, and partitioned into three wards capable of accommodating 

 88 inmates. The flooring is of earth tamped down, but the 

 occupants sleep on raised boarded platforms. 



The jailor^s quarters are situated close to and west of the civil 

 debtors' jail. The Police guard-room is just outside the main jail. 



The hospital is a building 218 feet 6 inches long and 75 feet 

 wide, having a verandah to the front and rear. The ends of the 

 verandah at the back have been closed in and are used for a bath 

 and store-room. Flanking it on the west, but detached, are the 

 male and female latrines and dead-house. The accommodation 

 provided by the hospital is ample, there being three wards for 

 males and one for females. They are intended ordinarily to contain 

 24 male and 2 female inmates. There is also a surgery and a 

 store-room. The wards of the hospital, as also those of the jail, 

 are lighted nightly with kerosine lamps. The hospital staff is 

 one Surgeon and one Apothecary. There is no quarantine 

 ward. 



The civil debtors' jail provides accommodation for 6 inmates, 

 and is a comfortable building, but is rarely occupied. 



Prisoners are received by drafts from the Coimbatore and other 

 jails when the number in the jail falls very low. These drafts are 

 needed to keep up the gang employed in public works to its full 

 strength, about 100 prisoners. 



Chinese are very rarely admitted into this jail. 



The occupation of the convicts is chiefly extramural, at present 

 on the works at Norwood and the Gardens ; the work done 

 is principally road-making, excavation, &c. These labouring 

 convicts are supervised by an Overseer of the Public Works 

 Department. They are guarded to and fro by the Police, and 

 are in charge of prison warders assisted by convict maistries, who 

 more directly see to the completion of their task. Within the 



