------------------------+--------+----------+-------- | Males. | Females. | Total. ------------------------+--------+----------+-------- Average daily number | | | of detainees | 8,775 | 1,275 | 10,050 Average daily number | | | employed | 7,290 | 904 | 8,194 Character of | | | employment-- | | | 1. For the Labour | | | Houses-- | | | (_a_) Domestic work | 1,524 | 372 | 1,896 (_b_) Agriculture | 551 | 32 | 583 (_c_) Other work | 642 | 85 | 727 +--------+----------+-------- Total (_a_), (_b_),| | | (_c_) | 2,717 | 489 | 3,206 ------------------------+--------+----------+-------- ------------------------+--------+----------+-------- 2. For the Provincial | | | Authorities | 1,903 | 88 | 1,991 3. For the Public | | | Authorities | 105 | -- | 105 4. For officers of the | | | establishments | 124 | 23 | 147 5. For outside persons--| | | (_a_) Agricultural | | | work | 704 | 21 | 725 (_b_) Industrial work | 1,737 | 283 | 2,020 +--------+---------+--------- Total (_a_) and | | | (_b_) | 2,441 | 304 | 2,745 ------------------------+--------+----------+-------- In considering the industrial methods on which the Labour Houses are administered, it may be well to bear in mind the principles which are applied to Prussian penal establishments in general, for they apply to these institutions. A recent official statement upon the subject runs as follows[60]:-- [Footnote 60: "Statistik der zum Ressort des Königlich Preussischen Ministeriums des Innern gehörenden Strafanstalten und Gefängnisse und der Korrigenden für das Rechnungsjahr 1903," pp. xx-xxii.] "(1) The requirements of the individual establishments, and of the prison administration in general, are as far as possible to be supplied by the prisoners. All domestic work is to be done by the prisoners; clothing and articles needed for bedding, etc., are also to be done by them, and to this end weaving shops are provided in some prisons. Repairs to buildings, works of rebuilding, extensions, and new buildings are to be carried out by prisoners, who are specially to be used in the construction of dwelling-houses for the officers.