HC Deb 16 April 1923 vol 162 c1694W
Mr. HANCOCK

asked 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 WINTERTON

Figures 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.