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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [15r] (25/266)
The record is made up of 1 item (144 folios). It was created in 29 Aug 1863-27 Jul 1865. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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JUDICIAL.
63. Propositions have been made for the transfer of the charge of the Jails
jails from the Session Judges to the Civil Surgeons, and for the establishment
of central prisons.
64. The comparative table of mortuary returns from the different
jails in the
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
is worthy special notice.
65. The daily average strength of prisoners of all classes in custody
during the year was 3037. Of this number 227 were females. 221 # deaths
occurred, the highest ratio per-cent, of mortality to the average strength being
at Surat, and no less than 25'7.t TIi e total daily average strength of
prisoners at Surat was 194; at Kaira and Honore the per-centage was 10
and 10-6. The lowest per-centage was at Sattara, P2. Fifteen of the
deaths in the Surat jail were from cholera, and fourteen from diarrhoea.
In his special report on the jail, the Inspector of Prisons states that
“ the sleeping cells are low and devoid of ventilation” # * # “ there
is no garden” * # “no out-door employment” * * “ the system of
drainage is abominable, and embraces every character to be avoided in
carrying out the principles of sound conservancy.”
66. All the soiled and surface water, as well as the whole of the solid
sewage from the jail, are received into underground drains, feeders to the
principal or main-drains. The mortality was, however, aggravated from the
presence for the first time in the jail of prisoners from the Broach Zillah, the
majority of whom were “ Bheels and cultivators, men accustomed to out
door life, and to drink water containing elements very different from those
of the wells of Surat, which are brackish and full of nitrates, or from that
of the river, which is also brackish. Twenty-two out of the fifty deaths
during the year happened among these prisoners.
67. Surat jail, however, is not, perhaps, the very worst in India. It
appears that in the North-West Provinces (at Meerut jail) the mortality
for five years has never been less than 15 per-cent. In 1861, the famine
year, it amounted to 63*22 of the average daily strength. The Black
Hole of Calcutta destroyed in one night 84 per-cent, of the persons
confined in it.
68. 9894 prisoners were admitted into jail in the course of the year.
Of this number 2631 were agriculturists, who furnished 136 or *12It of
the 221 deaths.
* Or 23-2 if another Return be taken,
t Or 28'3 if another Return be taken.
X These different figures occur in different Returns.
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Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. during the financial year 1862-63.
The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-15), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
- ‘FINANCE AND REVENUE’ (ff 16-25), consisting of: Finance; The Mint; Revenue; Cash Alienations; Land Alienations; Sayer (Income Tax, Stamps, &c.); Customs; Imports; Import Revenue; Export Revenue; Frontier Duties; General Trade; Opium; Salt Excise; Financial and Commercial Legislation
- ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 26-35), consisting of: Sattara [Satara]; Kolhapore [Kolhapur]; The Southern Maratha Country; Cutch [Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Punch Mahals [Panch Mahals]; Guzerat [Gujarat]; Aden; Savanoor [Savanur]; Surat; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Edur [Idar]; Cambay [Khambhat]; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Sind [Sindh]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Junjeera [Janjira]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 36-39), consisting of: Sattara; Bombay [Mumbai] Harbour Defences; Belgaum and Kolapoor [Kolhapur]; Poona [Pune] Districts; The Civil Architect; Dharwar [Dharwad]; Ahmedabad and Kaira [Kheda]; Northern Concan [Konkan]; Mhow; Poona Cantonment; Kirkee [Khadki] Cantonment; Nassick [Nashik] Districts; Agra Road, Beaora [Biaora] Division; The Garrison and Dockyard Engineer, Bombay; Agra Road, Mhow Division; Sholapore [Solapur]; Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar]; Surat and Broach [Bharuch]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 40-43), consisting of: Railway Operations; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway; The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla
- ‘MILITARY DEPARTMENT’ (f 44), consisting of: Military Department; Marine Department
- ‘EDUCATION’ (ff 45-46)
- ‘THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (f 47)
- ‘CONSERVANCY AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION’ (ff 48-50), consisting of: Bombay; Revenue Survey
- ‘FORESTS’ (f 51)
- ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 52).
The remainder of the item consists of appendices to the ‘JUDICIAL’ section of the report. Appendices A and B (f 53) contain lists of Acts passed, respectively, by the Government of India and the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . Appendix C (ff 53-64) contains a list of bills under consideration by the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. . Appendix D (ff 65-146) consists of a detailed report on jails by the Inspector-General of Prisons. Appendix D is dated 29 August 1863 and contains an inserted sheet of corrections (f 66) dated 27 July 1865. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.
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