A resolution on the administration of Bengal Jails during the last year published to-day, shows that in the early part of 1916 the average daily population was 15,546, as compared with 14,475 in 1915. After August 1916 the figures began to fall off and the total number of admissions during the year was 80,828, that is, 973 less than in the previous year. Statistics regarding sickness and mortality are slightly less favourable than those of the previous year, death rate being 22.4 as compared with the quinquennial average of 21. The scheme for converting the Berhampore jail into a special tuberculosis jail still awaits provision of a new central lunatic asylum for the presidency. But meanwhile, the Inspector-General has arranged to construct a temporary building for treatment of tuberculosis prisoners from Western Bengal and proposes to make similar arrangements in one of the Eastern Bengal Jails. The outturn of jail manufactures was very satisfactory. A large quantity of cloths and bags was supplied to meet military requirements. The Midnapur Central Jail furnished the Army Department with 79,000 bandages and Dacca 17,242 blankets.
