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MR. BELLAIRS
To ask the Secretary of State for War in what localities, outside the United Kingdom and India, military prisons are situated; and what were the total establishment, victualling charges, and the maximum and minimum number of prisoners for each prison in 1906-7, so far as the information is readily available.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.)
The information as regards detention barracks, as the military prisons outside the United Kingdom are now called, is as follows:—
| Establish-ment. | Soldiers under sentence dur-ing the year 1906. | Victualling charges (approximately). | ||
| Maximum number. | Minimum number. | |||
| Detention barracks: | £ | |||
| Bermuda | 4 | 18 | 1 | 137 |
| Cairo | 9 | 40 | 10 | 356 |
| Gibraltar | 12 | 82 | 38 | 683 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 20 | 1 | 94 |
| Jamaica | 5 | 9 | Empty on various dates | 114 |
| Kandy | 4 | 12 | do. | 89 |
| Malta | 15 | 93 | 16 | 898 |
| Mauritius | 5 | 24 | 4 | 235 |
| Pretoria | 13 | 82 | 27 | * |
| Sierra Leone | 3 | 14 | 2 | 153 |
| Singapore | 5 | 13 | Empty on various dates | 97 |
| Wynberg | 11 | 63 | 21 | * |
| Branh detention barracks: | ||||
| Bloemfontein | 2 | 16 | Empty on various dates | * |
| Harrismith | 2 | 10 | do. | * |
| Khartoum | 2 | 2 | 1 | 26 |
| Middelburg, Cape Colony | 2 | 14 | Empty on various dates | * |
| Potchefstroom | 2 | 19 | do. | * |
| Standerton | 2 | 13 | do. | * |
| *£1,866, South Africa (cannot be given separately). | ||||