§ MR. TOMKINSONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of corporal punishment by flogging for offences against discipline there have been in all civil prisons during the year 1904.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASIn local prisons there were eighteen corporal punishments during the year 1904. In convict prisons there were nine.
§ MR. TOMKINSON.How does that compare with previous years?
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASIt is considerably less.