APPENDIX XCIII.-continued.
II. POLICE BURGHS IN SCOTLAND HAVING POLICE COURTS THE STATISTICS OF WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THOSE OF THE COUNTIES IN WHICH THEY ARE SITUATED.
In the Judicial Statistics for Scotland the cases brought before the above Police Courts are reported in the Police
Statistics of the Counties in which the Burghs are situated.
EDINBURGH, 20th April 1895.
APPENDIX XCIII.-continued.
III. POLICE BURGHS IN SCOTLAND WHICH HAVE ADOPTED ONE OR OTHER OF THE POLICE ACTS, BUT HAVE NO POLICE COURT.
Matron, Aberdeen Rescue Home, 8043; number of inmates 8046; agree on admission to stay two years, 8048; majority remain, 8051; employed at laundry and house work, 8049; daily routine, 8055, 8061; average age of inmates, 8062; number of habitual drunkards, 8067; prostitution and drink, 8068.
ADULT REFORMATORIES.
Detention of migratory paupers for long periods, 3862.
ADULTERATION OF DRINK.
Laws should be more stringently enforced, 6189. Quality of liquor much to do with drunkenness and offences of violence, 9127.
ALCOHOLIC INSANITY.
Forms of insanity given by Sir Arthur Mitchell in his Articles, pp. 525-528, are (a) intoxication, (b) delirium tremens, (c) mania à potu, (d) dipsomania; victims of the latter not suitable cases for ordinary asylums.
ALEXANDER, M.A., Rev. JOHN.
Chaplain, Glasgow Prison, 10,071; thinks existing homes and shelters do good work, 10,073; especially where period of detention exceeds six months, 10,078; suggests that sentences for petty offenders be increased in geometrical progression, 10,083; thinks present sentences on habitual offenders have no deterrent effect, 10,088, 10,111-10,113; even long sentences not always deterrent, 10,128, 10,129 definition of habitual drunkard, 10,098, 10,137-10,139; suggests young girls after being warned on first offence should be sent to reformatory school for one year, and if again convicted for three years, after which, if not effective, to be imprisoned, and sentences increased in geometrical progression, 10,093-10,097; thinks unmarried young women offenders should be detained for life, 10,097-10,099, 10,140- 10,143; considers stipendiaries preferable to magistrates for dealing with habituals, 10,100-10,106; difficulty in securing work for discharged female prisoners, 10,107, 10,108; personal efforts, 10, 109, 10, 120-10,126; complaints by prostitutes in prison as to unjust arrest, 10,114-10,119; serious offenders rarely habitual drunkards, 10,130-10,134.
ANGUS, Mr JOHN WYNESS.
Chief Constable, Greenock, 8908; which has special Police Act, 8911; intended to meet offence of drunkenness, 9062-9072; thinks the steady decrease since 1891 of arrests for petty offences attributable to bad trade and special attention paid to large number of shebeens, 8913- 8915, 8932-8949; special instructions given to police as to persons found drunk in view of frequent cases of drowning, 8921, 8922; tendency of night police to overlook cases from personal considerations, 8922-8927; comparison of Greenock and Edinburgh, 8927-8931; maximum penalty
for drunkenness rarely inflicted, 8977-8986, 9113-9116; number of habitual offenders in Greenock, 8950-8961; large proportion of prostitutes apprehended for other petty offences, 8962-8963; method of dealing with prostitutes for importuning, 8964-8975; application of previous con- victions, 8987-8995; considers treatment of drunks in burghs more effective than lenient county treatment, 8996-9001; system of liberation on pledge, minimum in cases of drunkenness fixed at 10s., 9002, 9009-9015, 9081; result being few forfeitures, 9002-9008; very little vagrancy, 9017; bona fide workmen on tramp are helped by police, 9028-9035; professionals directed to night asylum, 9022, 9030, 9036-9041; special powers for vagrancy in Renfrewshire, 9052-9261; difficulty of getting prostitutes to go to Homes, 9073-9076; definition of habitual offender, 9084, 9108-9112; would deter persons from becoming habituals by fixing sentence to be imposed after third con- viction, 9082-9090, 9116-9118; juveniles sent to training ships and reformatory or industrial schools generally turn out well, 9094-9099; exception in case of Dalbeth R.C. School, 9099; approves of whipping boys under 14 years of age, 9100-9106; thinks the quality of the liquor has much to do with drunkenness and offences involving violence,
ARRESTS FOR PETTY OFFENCES.
For specific petty offences in Burghs and Counties, p. 539,
Difference in ratio in different Burghs explained by
Bailie S. Chisholm, 94. Mr A. A. Young, 12,562. Mr Jno. Boyd, 433, 458. Bailie Primrose, 978-979. Sir Jas. Russell, 1903.
Mr Wm. Henderson, 2067, 2244. Mr John Alexander Dewar, 6303. Mr Wm. Hamilton, 8755, 8772. Capt. Hardy M'Hardy, 12,492. Increase since 1884, 2621-2622.
Ratio of total apprehensions to population decreased since 1890,-Mr Wm. Donaldson, 2632.
Increase due to large number of young constables,-Mr Wm. Geddes, 13,181.
ASSOCIATION OF PRISONERS.
Evils obviated by proper classification, 6995, 7016.
ASYLUMS.
Not suited for Inebriates.
Prof. Gairdner, 724. Dr Yellowlees, 1364, 1482. Dr Clouston, 2869, 2937. Dr Batty Tuke, 12,704. Dr Rorie, 13,581. Dr Nicolson, 13,912.
Dr Hoffman, 14,145.
Advantages and drawbacks of treating inebriates in,- Dr Wilson, 10,419.
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