9.0 a.m.--Work is then continued without interruption until 9.0, when there is a pause for a quarter of an hour for bread and beer. 11.40 a.m.--A pause for dinner, which is partaken like breakfast in bands. (For the outside labourers a different order is followed.) 12.0 to 1.0 p.m.--A pause, during which the prisoners have at least half an hour in the open air. 4.0 p.m.--A pause of a quarter of an hour for bread and beer. 7.15 p.m. (in winter and on Sundays and festivals, 6.15).--The bell rings for supper, and work ends for the day. 7.50 p.m.--The prisoners are examined for the detection of forbidden articles, and at 7.55 they are marched off to bed. The work-day is thus about twelve hours in summer. But while, as a rule, the hours are the same for all, work is not altogether measured by time, but according to the capacity of the individual inmate, and where the tasks imposed are unfulfilled at the close of the day, owing to evident sloth or insubordination, some sort of punishment follows. The dietary on ordinary work-days is as follows:-- Morning.--Coffee with milk and bread. Noon.--Peas, beans, or lentils with potatoes; vegetable soup with potatoes; cabbage or turnips, with potatoes (the portion of potatoes allowed is 750 grammes for men and 660 grammes for women); or fresh fish and potatoes. Evening.--Soup, made with rye or wheaten flour, bread, oats, buckwheat, rice or potatoes. (Of bread 550 grammes are allowed to each man and 400 grammes to each woman daily). At Easter, Whitsuntide, Christmas, and on the Emperor's birthday, beef or pork, with beer, is given. Twice a week 100 grammes of meat may be served to men, and 80 grammes to women, instead of the fat which enters into the noon meal. Once a week cheese (100 grammes) is served to men and women, and once also a salted herring. The whole of the prisoners are kept to work of a kind suited to their strength, capacity and sex, their employment being determined by the Director and the resident doctor together. The principal methods of employment are the following:-- (1) Farm work on the provincial estate at Eichelborn, for which purpose men are farmed out as required. (2) Building and earth works in connection with provincial institutions and undertakings. (3) A series of industries carried on within the walls of the house. (4) Works on the buildings, both within and without. (5) Domestic and culinary work such as baking, washing, cleaning, sewing, etc.