Note 50 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.
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The figures for May 1878 are: Men, 8,983; of these only 2,064 had had no previous conviction of any kind, 4,672 had had sentences short of penal servitude, and 2,247 penal servitude sentences. Of the 1,226 women, 124 had never been convicted before, 635 had had sentences short of penal servitude, 567 penal servitude sentences.—(P.S. Report, iii. 1170. See also ii. 206, 296, 364.)