--------+------------------------------------------ | Daily Average Population of +-------------+---------------+------------ |Local Prisons|Convict Prisons| Borstal | | |Institutions --------+------+------+-------+-------+-----+------ | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. 1913-14 |12,116| 2,236| 2,609 | 95 | 841 | 87 1918-19 | 5,751| 1,322| 1,146 | 83 | 566 | 194 --------+------+------+-------+-------+-----+------ This great fall in the prison population is still more strikingly shown in the Table showing the total committals to prison on conviction by Ordinary Courts for the years named:-- -------------+--------------------------------------------+---------- | Committals to Prison on Conviction. |Proportion +----------+----------+--------------+-------+ per Year. | On |Indictable|Non-indictable| | 100,000 |Indictment| Offences | Offences | Total | of the | | Tried | | |Population | |Summarily | | | -------------+----------+----------+--------------+-------+---------- 1913-14 | 7,738 | 15,598 | 113,088 |136,424| 369 1918-19 | 3,486 | 8,568 | 13,996 | 26,050| 70 +----------+----------+--------------+-------+---------- Decrease | | | | | since 1913-14| 55% | 45% | 88% | 81% | 299 -------------+----------+----------+--------------+-------+----------