'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [‎85r] (165/266)

APPENDIX TO JUDICIAL REPORT.
services will not be available on the introduction of the new establishments, as (he
subordinate charge of the Jail will be vested in the Jailor, and the duties of the Nazirs
will be confined to the Adawlut. I trust Government will be pleased to take the claims
of this deserving servant into favourable consideration.
160. The Nazir at Tanna Mr. Jamsetjee, the Jailor at Dharwar Mr. Jukes at
Sholapoor Mr. Unger, at Poona Mr. Shrimpton, and the Nazir Mr. Martund Luxoomonjee
at Dholia, deserve to be favourably mentioned, together with Mr. Fernandez, the
Nazir of the Poona Adawlut.
161. These gardens, which, with one or two exceptions, are attached to all the
Jails, exert, I have no doubt, a beneficial influence on
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the health ot the prisoners. Mr. Richardson, the late
Session Judge of Khandeish, has been most energetic in his endeavours to promote
cultivation on a large scale, not only of vegetables but of cotton, jowaree, and other
grain. His success, however, was not commensurate with his zeal, and on sanitary
considerations the experiment was abandoned, as Government are aware. I rejoice, how
ever, to find that this officer ere leaving Dhoolia had ultimately succeeded in obtaining,
as he reports, “112 acres of totally uncleared land, about 1 £ mile from the Jail, on
which the available convict labour'can be employed, and I trust with better success than
has attended my crippled endeavours during 1862.” Most of the gardens have supplied
the entire quantity of vegetables required for the consumption of the Jails, a good deal
has also been sold, and the proceeds carried to the credit of the garden funds. On the
whole, although the gardens may not be considered to have produced favourable financial
results, yet their influence for good in many ways is undeniable, and they deserve every
encuragement and every attention on the part of the officers in charge.
162. Sufficient attention is, however, not paid to the cultivation of the best kind
of vegetables. A small piece of ground is often over-grown with creepers, such as the
cucumbers, the pumpkins, and allied descriptions which contain but little nutriment,
and consist principally of water-colouring matter and fibre, to the entire neglect of
the more valuable and less perishable descriptions,, such as onions, carrots, potatoes,
beet, all the cruciferae, sorrells, and native bhajee or spinach, which should be largely
cultivated.
163. Since trees should find place in every Jail garden, as well as turmeric,
ginger, the capsicums, garlic, and all the condiments in common use.
164. In cases, as at Dhoolia, where a large tract of land is available, the oil-seeds,
cotton, the grains of the district, and other products for the labour and consumption of
the prisoners should be as far as possible largely growiu *
* 165. Some important changes have taken place, at the head of which stands the
adoption of a new scale of diet, varied according to the
Changes effected during.the year. . , n T -i • 1 • i
requirements 01 every J ail 111 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. , including bind
and Aden. This dietary has received the approval of the highest medical authorities in
Bombay, and has been introduced with the sanction of Government. The results, sani
tary and financial, will be reported hereafter.
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