4493-4494; difficulties in dealing with vagrant children, 4498-4501; co-operation of School and Parochial Boards in disposal of children, 4505-4507; pantomime chidlren well cared for, 4531-4535; 80 per cent. of children committed to Industrial and Reformatory Schools turn out well, 4537-4538; scope for Day Industrial School in Edinburgh, 4543-4545.

MILLER, Miss J. F.

For thirty-two years in Scotch prison service, 1799-1800; daily average female population of Glasgow Prison 375, or 58 per cent. of total female prison population of Scotland, 1802; annual commitments 10,769, or 60 per cent. of total females for Scotland, 1803, 1810-1811; representing about 3300 individuals, 1813-1814; of whom about 350 are habituals, 1815; comparative tables for same periods in 1891 and 1894, giving analysis of previous convictions, ages, and occupations, 1806, 1837-1838, 1843-1845, 1865-1867; show large number of short sentences inflicted and large number of young persons imprisoned, 1807-1809, 1838, 1859-1860; short sentences have no deterrent effect 1816-1818, 1834; and only fit for renewing prisoners dissipation, 1885-1886; minimum period twelve months, 1888; classification necessary, 1819; recommends division into aged, docile, undisciplined, and refractory or incorrigible, 1820; aged, about 4 per cent., could be housed in poorhouses, 1820, 1826, 1839-1842, 1861-1865; the docile, about one-third, might be trained to useful labour in existing homes and shelters, 1821-1823; incorrigible habituals should be detained for lengthened period and put to healthy labour, 1835, 1889-1894; number of incorrigibles few, 1872-1874; women sent to prison for begging, 1850-1853; mostly old and fit only for poorhouse, 1854; females sent to shelters often return to prison, 1878-1880; many only kept in shelters by hope of the wages, 1882.

MILLER, Dr J. W.

Medical Officer Dundee Prison, &c. &c., 13,375; gives particulars of cases of weak-minded persons sent to prison, 13,376-13,403, 13,408-13,411, 13,419-13,428; and suggests that for harmless cases there should be power to detain in poorhouse on long or indefinite sentences, 13, 431-13,433; dangerous lunatics being kept in Perth Lunatic Department, and those insane but not dangerous in ordinary asylums, 13,407, 13,408, 13,412-13,418, 13,431-13,433, 13,443-13,452; thinks the compulsory confinement of the small number of local habituals would be for public advantage, 13,437-13,443; would fix minimum period of detention at one year, leaving maximum indeterminate, 13,453-13,455; considers it probable that a large proportion might be cured, 13,456, 13,457; strongly recommends outdoor labour for both men and women, 13,458-13,460; considers long periods of separate confinement detrimental, 13, 439-13,444; submits memorandum from Dundee branch of British Medical Association, 13,460.

MILNE, Mr GEORGE.

Secretary, Aberdeen Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, 7988; proportion of habitual offenders in Aberdeen very large, 7991; memorialised Secretary for Scotland suggesting establishment of adult reformatory institutions for prolonged detention of inebriates, with recommittal on lapsing, 7991; suggests also the hiring-out of inmates on probation, 7999; present system has no deterrent effect on habituals, 7992; thinks those mentally deficient should be confined in poorhouses, 7997; would whip juvenile offenders in preference to imprisonment, 7995, 7996; difficulties in helping habituals after discharge, 8001, 8009.

MITCHELL, Mr Wм.

One of deputation from Perthshire Committee on Vagrancy. See under Col. WILLIAMSON.

MITCHELL, Mr WILLIAM, Glasgow.

Connected with Glasgow School Board for twenty-one years, and with Juvenile Delinquency Board for twelve years, Vice-Chairman of both, 147-149; default officers report from 50 to 75 per cent. of default cases annually under notice, to be attributable to drunkenness of parents, but mainly in aggravated cases are parents frequenters of Police Court, 152-157, 227, 242; drunken mothers specially difficult to deal with, 228, 230; defaulting parents dealt with by Board in first instance, 152, and only after manifold dealings, by the Sheriff, 231-234, 239; children of habitual drunkards generally sent to Day Industrial Schools, 158-164, 212; procedure prior to admission, 165-168; parents contribute to maintenance, 168; minimum and maximum length of committal, 171; Magistrates frequently send juveniles charged with petty offences to Day Industrial

Schools instead of convicting them, 177-178; many thus dealt with would otherwise become vagrants and beggars, 176; no further powers needed to deal with children of defaulting parents in Glasgow, 187; School Attendance Department overtaking all but a very small proportion, who escape through continual moving about, 214-219, 235-237; chiefly conversant with tinkers in Perthshire, 179-181; adults all drunkards, 183, 200; constantly quarrelling and responsible for large percentage of petty crimes, 208; their dwellings but a few sacks or old rags over upright poles, 189-190, 194, 199; the children destitute and degraded, absolutely neglected, no education, 182-184; mortality excessive through exposure, &c., 205-207; no moral training or teaching, 211; recommends Home for Inebriate parents with a probation of from six to twelve months, but if not reformed thinks easier means of separation from family desirable, 229; (1) regarding tinkers, suggests that Local Authority should have power to prevent landlords or tenants giving such people leave to set up their tents on their lands, 188; (2) the registration of all such movable dwellings under Local Authority for inspection, and the provision of refuges, 192, 195; with imprisonment if necessary, 225-226; believes moral suasion more effective than punitive measures, 257; would exempt caravaus from such regulations, 196, 210-211.

MORRIN, Bailie DAVID.

Magistrate of Glasgow for six years, 1630-1632; considers ninety per cent. of petty offences attributable to drunkenness, 1633, 1635, 1711-1716, 1728-1731; diversity of practice amongst Magistrates in sentencing for drunkenness, &c., 1636-1641; personal method with petty offenders, 1642, 1757-1764; difficulty of enforcing a system of cumulative sentences, 1649-1652; short sentences not reformative, 1653, 1723-1725, 1753; difficulty of defining an Habitual Drunka d so as to include only those with whom desirable to deal, 1654-1660, 1717-1719; considers female habituals increasing, 1720; habituals should be remitted to Sheriff for enquiry, 1669-1670; who should have power to commit to retreats those found to be habituals for periods from three to six months, and any not so dealt with to imprisonment for not exceeding sixty days, 1667-1668, 1671, 1703-1704, 1721-1722; retreats to be maintained by proceeds of labour and funds partly local and partly Imperial, 1672-1683, 1744-1750; Trades Unions and Prison Labour, 177; juvenile offenders, 17541756, 1772-1784; prefers whipping to imprisonment for such, 1779-1781; persons weak-minded and unfit for prison discipline should be sent to homes, 1735-1743; difficulty of convicting publicans for supplying drink to persons already under its influence, 1766; would restrict dealings of publicans and pawnbrokers with certified habituals, 1769-1770; number of prisoners in prison for importuning on certain dates, 1785-1790; instances case of prostitute restored to friends and doing well, 17911794; powers of Magistrates to liberate, 1796-1798: "finish" and ether drinking, 1662-1666, 1726-1727.

MOTION, Mr JAMES R.

Acting-Inspector of Poor for Barony Parish of Glasgow for nine years and connected with Barony Board for twentyeight years, 246-249; explains system of boarding out lunatics, 253-257, and of medical relief, 261-262; poorhouse and hospital accommodation, 264-255; inmates classified, 265; those classed as deprave 1, and consist chiefly of males with venereal disease, and females with illegitimate children, 266-274; details cases of males and females, 276-301; nothing in Scotland corresponding to English casual wards, 302-305; decent working-men on tramp in search of work not accommodated under Scotch Poor Law, 306; considers those sheltered at police offices constitutional loafers, 307-309; present power of detention of paupers in poorhouse unsatisfactory, 331-339; great deal of habitual drunkenness met with in administration of Poor Law, 319; considers it rather leniently dealt with by Magistrates, 322; thinks six convictions for drunkenness within any period should constitute an Habitual Drunkard, 321-325; would discriminate between inebriates of poorhouse class and working-men, 389-390; habituals could be economically treated in partly vacant poorhouses throughout the country, 320, 341-347 362-366; proceeds of labour would greatly diminish cost, 367-369; would fix maximum period of detention at two years, and minimum at six months, 370-373; which might be reduced by Magistrates on certificate by medical man, 378; does not connect inebriates with habitual petty thefts, 380-381; was connected with deputation to Germany to inspect Labour Colonies, 326; extract from German Penal Codes giving offences for which persons might be sent to Compulsory Labour Colonies, 327-328; children of paupers kept in special department and go to public schools, 356; children of depraved parents may be removed from parents' custody under Act of 1892, and boarded out, 331-334; since 1884, 488 have been so removed with good results, 336-338; and parents' claim for restoration of children can be opposed under The

Custody of Children Act, 1891, 386-388; poorhouse populations lowest about August and September, and highest about January and February, 348 349, caused by restless paupers, who go on tramp during spring and summer and return for winter months, 348-354; would suggest Government contribution towards expense of treatment of habituals, 391-392.

NAIRNE, L.R.C.P. and S.E., ALEX.

Was associated with Dr A. J. Currie in 'metabolic' treatment of inebriety, 11,086; connection severed through action of General Medical Council, 11,087, 11,088; opinion as to 'cure,'-its composition, administration and results, 11,089-11,152; considers it valuable as a remedy for results of intemperance, 11,089, 11,096, 11,127, 11,134; thinks it necessary that patient be aware of what he was being treated to, 11, 132-11,147.

NAISMITH, M.D., F.R.C.S., W. J.

Surgeon to Ayr Prison, 12,344; has found great difficulty in private practice in dealing with cases of habitual drunkenness through want of compulsory powers, 12,347, 12,348; considers voluntary nature of present facilities unsatisfactory, 12,349-12,351; and thinks relatives of an habitual drunkard have power by petitioning Sheriff to have him confined, 12,390, 12,391; considers petty offenders are increasing due to inefficiency of system of short sentences, 12,354-12,359, 12,376; thinks sentences should be cumulative, and favours compulsory detention in adult reformatories at suitable work, 12,360-12,363, 12,379; would not differentiate workman who was habitually drunk on pay days and was convicted, 12,364, 12,365; does not hold confident views as to curing habitual drunkards, 12,366-12,369; and considers no disease known where heredity has more frightful influence, 12,371-12,373; would fix one or two months as minimum period of detention, 12,379; considers long terms of separate confinement deleterious to both mind and body, 12,380-12,383; would send epileptic and weak-minded offenders to poorhouse instead of prison, 12,384-12,387, 12,392-12,407.

NAPIER, Mr Wм.

Governor Greenock Prison, 12,086; does not think imprisonment has any good effect on habitual offenders, 12,089A., 12, 145; illustrative cases of weak-minded prisoners who ought to be sent to poorhouse, 12,090-12,125; would not send persons to prison for simple drunkenness, 12,130, 12,146; unless habitual, when they should be committed for from 1 month to 6 weeks, 12, 130, 12, 147; previous convictions should be libelled, 12, 131-12,136 ; advocates adult reformatories for aged offenders, 12,148-12, 149; prison labour and outside competition, 12, 153-12,163; treatment of vagrancy in Fifeshire, formerly resulting in damages being given against chief constable, 12, 169-12,180; sharp dealing with sheebeners in Greenock, 12, 181-12,186; would assist honest tramps and provide shelters under police control, 12,187, 12,188, 12,201, 12,202; administration of Greenock tramp shelter, 12,190-12,197, 12,204; considers drink a factor in 90 per cent. of all crime, 12,212-12,214; begging in Rothesay, 12,215-12, 222.

NEILSON, Mr GEORGE.

Procurator-Fiscal at Glasgow Police Courts, 10,549; thinks ratio of police to population partly accounts for large proportion of arrests for petty offences in Glasgow, 10,554, 10,555; as also the periodical influx of strangers from surrounding places, 10,556, 10,557; but does not think the offences set up under elaborate special Police Acts applicable to Glasgow in any way accounts for the large number of arrests, 10,560; ratio between fines and terms of imprisonment as limited by Summary Jurisdiction Act, 10,56510,570; practice followed in Glasgow Police Courts in applying previous convictions, 10,571-10,596, 10,626-10,636, 10,751-10,769; personally is not satisfied that imprisonment is of any use for petty offenders, 10,606, 10,649; thinks Glasgow freer from open prostitution than Edinburgh, 10,605-10,611; Glasgow police and shebeening, 10,614-10,625, 10,713-10,715, 10,728; usual treatment of juvenile offenders-magistrates generally opposed to whipping, 10,638-10,649; personally favours enforcement of parental chastisement in preference to public whipping or imprisonment, 10,650; system of liberating on pledge in Glasgow, 10,651-10,675, 10,736-10,745; thinks proceeds of pledges, fines, &c., might fitly be applied in part to institution for treatment of offenders in Glasgow, 10,67010,673; thinks accommodation, &c., for prisoners in police cells prior to trial might be improved, 10,680-10,690; prosecutions for using abusive language, 10,694-10,702; would favour the remitting of habitual offenders to Sheriff to be dealt with for specific offence, and afterwards committed as an habitual to adult reformatory, 10,705-10,712, 10,730; general procedure in cases of prostitution, 10,719-10,727 ; usually admonished for first offence, 10,718.

NICOLSON, Dr David.

Physician-Superintendent Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadmoor, and Member of English Departmental Committee on Inebrates, 18,856; states that weak-minded convicts formerly kept in Woking Prison employed at light labour, 13,86013,864; insane short sentenced prisoners go to County Asylums, 13,866; does not think intemperance of itself largely productive of insanity, 13,873, 13,874; no special means for mitigation of sentences of weak-minded prisoners, 13,890-13,892; percentage of cases committed during Hor Majesty's pleasure where insanity is due to intemperance, 13,907-13,911; favourable results of treatment at Broad. moor, 13,893-13,896, 13,900-13,902; thinks habitual drunkenness ought to be specially treated apart from question of lunacy, 13,012; and intemperance dealt with much more stringently, 13,913; definition of habitual, 13,922, 13,923; advocates the establishment of retreats and reformatory institutions managed and controlled by State and aided from local sources, 13,875-13,877, 13,915-13,917; thinks labour of inmates would go far to meet expenditure, 13,877-13,879; thinks minimum period of detention should not be less than 12 or 18 months, 13,897; and that power of committal should be in hands of public State official after inquiry, preferably private, 13,918-13,920; annual cost of each criminal lunatic at Broadmoor, 13,881; and average personal earnings of whole, 13,882-13,885.

NICOLSON, Mr JAMES BADENOCH.

Counsel to Scotch Education Department, 13,278; quotes sections of Education Scotland Act regulating the enforcement of attendance of children at school, 13,281, 13,303; but considers the powers inapplicable to gipsy children on account of constant change of abode, &c., 13,283-13,286, 13,315; further difficulties of bringing vagrant children under provisions of Education or Industrial Schools Acts, 13,304-13,306, 13,341-13,352, 13,355-13,362; power of schoolmasters to expel dirty children, 13, 289-13,291; expense of sending vagrant children to Industrial Schools prohibitive, 13,292; children of able-bodied gipsies not entitled to relief as paupers, but if detained from parents by Government authority Treasury would be responsible for maintenance, 13, 296-13,298; no modern precedent for such detention, 13,301; and does not think Parliament would sanction it, 13,307-13,314, 13,373; number of tinkers in Kincardineshire, 13,318-13,327; no county bye-laws anent vagrancy, 13,329-13,331; thinks it would be advantageous to extend powers anent vagrancy and drunkenness in Burgh Police Act to counties, 13,334-13,340, 13,36313,368; considers that School Boards have power under Education Scotland Act, 1872, to erect and maintain Industrial Schools, 18,348-13,350, 13,353, 13,354.

NIGHT ASYLUMS AND HOUSES OF REFUGE.

Edinburgh, shelters paupers too late for admission
to poorhouse, 4546. No labour test, but such
considered desirable, 4642, 4687.
No work test at Glasgow, 12,281.

NOTIFICATION OF HABITUAL OFFENDERS AND DRUNKARDS TO PUBLICANS OR PAWNBROKERS.

Not considered of value.

Mr J. Boyd, 520.

Would favour it.

Bailie Primrose, 989.
Rev. R. Howie, 1620-1628.
Mr D. Morrin, 1769.

Mr W. Henderson, 2193-2194.
Dr Clouston, 2939-2944.
Rev. J. D. Robertson, 6190.
Mr Kinnaird Rose, 6277.
Father McMullen, 10,352.
Dr Norman Kerr, 14,263.
Difficulty in enforcing.

Sir Jas. Russell, 2057.

OGILVIE, Mr GEORGE.

Member and late Chairman of Glasgow City Parochial and Lunacy Boards; population of parish, 177,000, 648; poorhouse accommodation, 607; considers about half of inmates deserving paupers, 607, 648; while a large number constantly run out and in, 607, 641; these cause great trouble; 641; Parochial Boards should have powers to apply to Sheriff or Justice of Peace to detain for a lengthened

period paupers and those regularly frequenting prisons and poorhouses, 607-608, 615; no such powers at present, 607; if pauper refused admission, a line of refusal is given and they may appeal to Sheriff to order admission and if necessary from him to Board of Supervision, 609, 633-635; the Board may appear by agent only and reclaim, but being very expensive this is rarely done, 609, 631; cites case and gives particulars, 609, 616-618; powers of punishment of refractory paupers, 610; not often enforced, 611, 650652; explains system of "test wards," 613, 640; powers of removal of children from parents indefinite and unsatisfactory, 619-624, 644-647; would desire additional powers, 630, 647; powers to board out children, 625, 626, 636-637; would separate respectable, honest poor from dissolute and refractory, 649; thinks there are many confirmed drunkards who never come before Police Court, 653; cites private case, 638-639.

OPIUM AND OTHER MEDICINAL INTOXICANTS, SUCH AS COCAINE, CHLORAL, LAUDANUM, ANTIPYRIN.

Dr G. Wilson, 10,515, 10,548.

Dr Batty Tuke, 12,724.

Dr Norman Kerr, 14,225, etc.

ORPHAN HOMES OF SCOTLAND.

Period of detention, 2 years, 10,260.

PAROLE

Of habituals-conditional on good behaviour, 3928.

PATERSON, Miss.

Matron of Edinburgh Magdalene Asylum. For evidence, see under Mr ANDREW SCOTT.

PERIOD OF DETENTION IN RETREATS. From 6 months to 2 years.

Mr J. R. Motion, 378.
Bailie Gulland, 2520.
Captain Christie, 2601.
Dr Clouston, 2890.

Not less than 12 months.

Mr J. Boyd, 457.

Rev. Dr A. R. MacEwen, 534.
Prof. Gairdner, 665–710.

Miss Miller, 1888.
Bailie Walcot, 2466.
Dr M'Naughton, 6940.
Lord Provost Low, 8198.
Dr Rorie, 13,585.

From 6 to 12 months.

Dr Yellowlees, 1424. From 3 months to 2 years. Rev. R. Pryde, 1587.

From 3 to 6 months.

Mr D. Morrin, 1667

667

Gave evidence before Dalrymple Committee, and has written extensively on Habitual Drunkenness and cognate subjects, 2278-79, 2301; considers present legislation inadequate through want of compulsory powers, 2280-81; Medical Faculty unanimous as to necessity for further legislation, 2291, 2302, 2306; present voluntary homes inadequate, thongh with their restricted powers their success is remarkable, 2303; habitual drunkenness closely akin to insanity, but to be kept from under Lunacy Laws, 2282-2283; Habitual Drunkards should be committed to home on certification by medical authorities and friends, dispensing with personal appearance at judicial enquiry unless specially desired, 2286-2288, 2311-2313; the homes to be graded for the various classes, 2289, 2292, 2307; and maintained partly by contributions and proceeds of labour, and partly by Imperial and local taxation, 2290, 2292, 2293-94, 2298-2300; scheme at first should be experimental and enlarged as found to work, 2296; probable cost of buildings, 2297; thinks 30 per cent. might be cured, 2304.

One

year brings about recovery.

Rev. Dr Smith, 5638.

1 to 2 years in Poorhouses or Prisons. Major M'Cartney, 3210.

Two or 3 years at outdoor Labour.
Sir Douglas Maclagan, 5664.
Bailie Mearns, 7872.
Twelve months and longer.

Mrs Lockhart, 5734.

Two years in certain cases, and work compulsory.
Mr J. Campbell-Irons, 5899.

Maximum 2 years, with system of Probation.
Dr Urquhart, 7120, 7210.

Prolonged detention.

Dr Ogilvie Will and Col. Macaulay, 7964. Would fix Maximum and Minimum.

Prof. M. Hay, 8039.

Dr Wilson, 10,492.

Would fix Maximum at 2 years with Parole Liberation.
Mr Tallack, 13,926.

Dr Batty Tuke, 12,693, 12,738.
Minimum, 1 year-Maximum Indefinite.
Dr J. W. Miller, 13,453.
Minimum, 12-18 months.
Dr Nicolson, 13,897.
One to 2 years in retreats.

Dr Norman Kerr, 14,169.

One of deputation from Perthshire Committee on Vagrancy, See under Col. WILLIAMSON.

PLEDGES, LIBERATION BY.

Glasgow system explained, 397, 10,651.

None taken from prostitutes in Glasgow, 24-26.
Amount varies at discretion of police, 68, 104.
Edinburgh system explained, 2018.

Those liberated invariably appear at Court in Edin-
burgh, 2112-2120.

Those liberated on pledge in Perth County cited to appear, 6418-6423, but not in Perth City, 7324-7334, and rarely in Aberdeen City; not cited in Govan or Paisley, 8746, 11,327.

Few forfeited in Greenock, 9002.

Pledge and fine money might fitly be applied to retreats, 10,670.

System of pledges in Fifeshire explained, 8597, 8699.

Total number forfeited, 2627-2629.

Dundee system explained, 12,770.

POLICE BURGHS IN SCOTLAND.

Return shewing (1) year when Courts were first held, (2) year when Police Acts were adopted, (3) population, pp. 645–647.

POORHOUSES.

Vacant and utilized accommodation, p. 536.
Grouping of, p. 537.

Getting emptier owing to extension of boarding-out system, 5873.

Habitual vagrants and beggars confined, 3354-3361.
Infirm habituals to be compulsorily detained, 4343.
Mentally deficient offenders to be confined, 7997,
13,431.

Detention of restless paupers for a month, 9885.
Weak-minded prisoners, 12,090.

POOR LAW, SCOTCH.

Able-bodied working men on tramp not provided for by it, 306.

PORTER, Mr ALEX.

Chief Constable of Roxburgh and Berwick, 4974; considers present methods of dealing with petty offenders useless and expensive, 4981, 4982; number of prisoners transferred to Edinburgh Prison, 4982, 4992-4995; allocation of escort expenses, 4984-4991, 4996, 4997; definition of habitual drunkards, 5011-5014, 5198-5201; suggests concerted action by magistrates in imposing full penalties on all habitual offenders, 4999-5001; with detention in institutions with object of reformation, release being conditional on good behaviour, 5011, 5019, 5020, 5146-5152, 5202; institutions to be maintained and controlled by Government, 5020, 5021, 5151, 5152, 5203-5206; power of committal to be with Sheriff, 5015-5018; census of tramps, 4977-4980; begging a great nuisance, 5026, 5137-5140; penalties for such under Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, considered ample, 5028-5046; penalty for drunkenness under Burgh Police Act should be extended to counties, 5047-5052; powers as to disorderly conduct, &c., in counties ample, 5053-5056; vagrancy less prevalent than formerly, 5057-5066; law as to camping-out, 5067-5071, 5133-5136; special county systems in Scotland and England for relief of tramps and vagrants, 5081-5086; advocates committal of vagrant children to educational Industrial Schools, 50895091, 5189; typical cases of vagrants, 5092-5101; advo cates system of passes for honest tramps in search of work, 5102-5108, 5141-5144, 5214-5219; existing system of shelters unsatisfactory, 5109-5132, 5161.

PRIMROSE, Bailie JOHN URE.

Senior Magistrate of Glasgow, 917; thinks there should be gradation of punishments for drunkenness, &c., 920-922; definition of habitual drunkard, 924; other considerations than actual convictions should weigh, 924-928; would not include workmen who might get drunk on pay-days but who other whiles are sober and industrious, 944-947, 967; would favour their pays being administered by employer for behalf of families, and has done this with good results, 984985; habituals should be dealt with by Sheriff or Justice, of Peace, 928-931, 973; vagrancy cases pretty frequents 933-938; considers half of them more fit for Poorhouse than prison, 936; never orders 'drunks' or known them ordered to find sureties, 937; thinks such additional punishment not required and not supported by public opinion, 980-983; strongly convinced of value of special and separate treatment of habitual drunkards, 939; supported by experience of reclamation in local institutions, 939-941, 948-949; not prepared to fix periods of detention necessary to cure, 950; thinks police should have powers of initiation of steps against habituals, 942-943, 968; and in certain cases the familiar neighbours, 965, 966; personally avoids sending children to prison, and thinks fourteen years young enough, 951-952; younger ones should be sent to Reformatory or Industrial Schools, 953-954; accounts for predominance in Glasgow of apprehensions for disorderly conduct, 956-966, 975-777; Glasgow governed by more stringent laws than any other town in Scotland, 177; sentences for petty offences heavier for year or so back than formerly, 978-979; police should keep register of all apprehensions for drunkenness, &c., 986; considers present powers of dealing with publicans supplying drink to in toxicated persons ample if enforced, 987; notification of names of habitual drunkards to publicans and pawnbrokers might do good, 989.

Average duration of confinement from 1864-1893, p. 597.

Cost of prisoners committed four times and upwards during 1893, p. 598. Re-commitments to, pp. 608 and 609.

The more hopeful habituals imprisoned for long periods, 3514.

With subsequent transfer to industrial homes,

3563.

Detention of habituals for 1 to 2 years, 3213.

PRISONER-PAUPERS, 7898 et seq.

Power to detain in poorhouses, 13,628.
Census of, p. 553.

PROCEDURE FOR TRIAL OF OFFENDERS.

Inquiry should be before Sheriff or J.P.

Mr J. Boyd, 417, 446.

Mr J. Taylor, 877.

Bailie Primrose, 928, 973.

HABITUAL

Cost

Represents Committee on Life and Work of Glasgow Presbytery, twenty-seven years a minister, 1565-1566, 1581-1582; thinks legislation for all classes of Habitual Drunkards urgent, 1568-1569; would fix minimum period of detention at three months and maximum at two years, to be determined by medical testimony, 1587-1588. of maintenance to be met by local rate and proceeds of industry of inmates, aided by Government, 1570-1572, 1594; family of habitual would also need to be maintained, 1573, 1596-1597; habitual drunkenness most prevalent amongst women in lower grades of society, 1574; children of drunken parents presently largely supplied with clothing through School Board and Charity Organization Society, 1578-1580; considers public opinion would support dealing with habituals if cost not too high, 1583-1584; instances case of cure, 1589-1592.

QUARRIER, Mr WM.

Thirty years' experience in reclamation of children, 10,143; scope of James Morrison St. Home, Glasgow, 10,145-10,153, 10,237-10,244; and Bridge of Weir Homes, 10,155-10,157, 10,210-10,214; numbers annually drafted to Canada, and dispersed over kingdom, 10,157; authentic evidence shows 98 per cent. of those emigrated do well, 10,167, 10,168; usual period of detention in Homes two years, 10,260, 10,261; regards longer detention in institutions apt to do harm, 10, 255-10,265; would favour indeterminate sentences for children sent to reformatory or industrial schools, 10,197-10, 199, 10,294, 10,295; girls instructed in house and laundry work, and dressmaking, and some trained as assistant teachers, 10,176; boys taught shoemaking, joinering, baking, &c., 10,180; some also employed on poultry farm, which'pays splendidly, 10,183–10,193; power of withholding children from dissolute parents, 10,200

REFORMATORIES.

Children sentenced to detention in, should not be sent to Prison.

Mr J. Boyd, 480–482.

Mr W. Donaldson, 2650-2657.

Rev. H. C. MacKenzie, 3405, 3427.

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS ACTS.

Mode of admission, of licensing out, and of apprenticing, p. 560.

REFRACTORY HABITUALS.

Few in number, 1872.

REGISTER, SPECIAL, FOR HABITUAL OFFENDERS.

Recommended by

Bailie S. Chisholm, 70.
Mr James Taylor, 799.
Bailie Primrose, 986.