LUNACY & CRIME
NEW SOUTH WALES STATISTICS.
(Received 17, 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, Nov. 17. The annual Prisons Report discloses that, including convicted and unconvicted prisoners, 8158 persons, of whom 6958 were males, were received into the prisons last year, this being a decrease of 592 compared with the previous year. Less than half were natives of New South Wales. Seventy-three per cent, of the offences were of a minor character, the sentences ranging from one to three months.
The annual report on mental hospitals shows that they contain 8610 patients, an increase of 174 for the year, a proportion of one in 275 of the general population. During the year 105 patients escaped; all were recaptured excepting 21. None of these were of the dangerous class. The report strongly urges amendment to the Lunacy Act to provide legislation for mental defectives.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 5
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