§ Mr. HANCOCKasked the Under-Secretary of State for India the expenditure on the Indian police, the average daily number of prisoners, and the gaol mortality per 1,000 for the years 1920 and 1921?
§ Earl WINTERTONFigures for calendar years are not available, but the gross expenditure on the Indian police was for the two years, 1920–21 and 1921–22, about twelve and thirteen and a half crores of rupees respectively, the latter figure being a revised estimate. The average number of prisoners in gaol was 11,553 in 1920 and 121,705 in 1921, including the Andamans. The death-rate per thousand was 21.91 in 1920 and 19.86 in 1921.