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kept in the prison for the use of the infirmary, and
under the control of the Surgeon.
31. No smoking shall be allowed, or tobacco intro-
duced, except with the consent and subject to rules
made by the Visiting Justices, or under a written
order of the Surgeon.
32. Any order by the Surgeon for the admission
of fermented or spirituous liquors or tobacco shall
be entered by him in his journal.
33. A prisoner before trial may procure for
himself, or receive at proper hours, food, clothing,
bedding, or other necessaries, subject to examination
and to such rules as may be approved by the Visiting
Justices; and any articles so procured may be paid
for out of the moneys belonging to such prisoner
in the hands of the Gaoler. No part of such food,
bedding, clothing, or other necessaries shall be sold
or transferred to any other prisoner; and any
prisoner transgressing this regulation shall be pro-
hibited from procuring any food or other necessaries
for such time as the Visiting Justices may deem
proper. If a prisoner before trial does not provide
himself with food, he shall receive the allowance
of food allotted to prisoners not employed at hard
labour according to the scale established by the rules
of the prison.
34. Prisoners before trial may, if they desire it,
wear the prison dress, and they shall be required
to do so if their own clothes are insufficient or unfit
for use, or necessary to be preserved for the purposes
of justice. The prison dress for prisoners before
trial, or some portion of it, shall be of a different
colour from that of convicted prisoners.
35. Every convicted prisoner shall be allowed food
according to the scale established by the rules of the
prison. Prisoners under the care of the Surgeon shall
be allowed such diet as he may direct. Care shall
be taken that all provisions supplied to the prisoners
be of proper quality and weight. Scales and legal
weights and measures shall be provided.
36. Every female prisoner shall be allowed to bring
with her to the prison any child under twelve
months of age, and such child or children shall
be supplied with bedding and food, upon the written
order of any Visiting Justice, according to the scale
ordered by the Surgeon.
37. No prisoner shall be allowed any wine, beer,
or other fermented liquor, except under a written
order from the Surgeon, to be entered in his journal,
specifying the quantity and the name of the prisoner
for whose use it is intended, or shall receive any
food, clothing, bedding, or necessaries other than the
prison allowance, except under special circumstances,
to be judged of by one or more of the Visiting
Justices or the Surgeon.
38. A convicted prisoner shall be provided with
a complete prison dress, and shall be required to
wear it.
39. On the discharge of a prisoner his own clothes
shall be returned to him, unless it has been found
necessary to destroy them, in which case he shall be
provided with clothing.
40. If necessary, the clothes of a prisoner shall be
purified before he is allowed to wear them in the
prison or to take them on his discharge.
41. Every male prisoner shall sleep in a cell by
himself, or in a separate bed placed in a cell con-
taining not fewer than two other male prisoners, and
sufficient bed-clothes shall be provided for every
prisoner. A convicted prisoner may be required to
sleep on a plank bed without a mattress during such
time as may be determined by the rules of the prison;
and epileptic prisoners, or prisoners labouring under
diseases requiring assistance or supervision in the
night, may at any time be placed by order of the
Surgeon in a separate bed in a cell containing not
fewer than two other male prisoners.
42. The bed-clothes shall be aired, changed, and
washed as often as the Surgeon or the Visiting
Justices may direct:
43. Prisoners are not to have in their possession
any article of food, clothing, &c., except such as shall
have been issued to them and sanctioned by the
Medical Officer or Gaoler.
Personal Cleanliness.
44. Prisoners shall be required to keep themselves
clean and decent in their persons, and to conform to
such rules as may be laid down for that purpose.
45. The hair of a female prisoner shall not be cut
without her consent except on account of vermin or
dirt, or when the Surgeon deems it requisite on the
ground of health or by order of the Visiting Justices
for repeated offences against the prison regulations.
The hair of male prisoners shall be cut short,
and they shall not be allowed to wear hair on the
face, unless in any case it shall be deemed necessary
by the Surgeon: Provided that the hair of prisoners
sentenced to a month's imprisonment or less shall not
be cut, and that the hair and whiskers of any
prisoner shall be allowed to grow for one month prior
to his discharge.
46. Prisoners are to be shaved, and to wash their
feet, and to put on clean shirts once a week.
Employment of Prisoners.
47. No gaming shall be permitted in any prison,
and the Gaoler shall seize and destroy all dice, cards,
or other instruments of gaming.
48. Prisoners before trial shall have the option
of employment, but shall not be compelled to
perform any hard labour: Provided that the em-
ployment shall not interfere with the discipline or
management of the prison.
49. Every prisoner sentenced to penal servitude
or hard labour shall be kept to hard labour during
the whole term of his sentence, unless he is employed
as provided in section 53, or unless the Surgeon
certifies that any such prisoner is unfit to perform
hard labour; and in any case where the Surgeon
makes such a certificate, the Gaoler shall at once
report the matter to the Visiting Justices.
50. No prisoner shall be employed at hard labour
on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday.
51. The Surgeon shall from time to time examine
the prisoners sentenced to penal servitude or hard
labour during the time of their being so employed,
and shall enter in his journal the name of any prisoner
whose health he thinks to be endangered by a con-
tinuance at hard labour under sentence of penal
servitude or hard labour, and thereupon such prisoner
shall not again be employed at labour until the
Surgeon certifies that he is fit for such employment.
52. Provision shall be made by the Visiting
Justices for the employment of all convicted prisoners
not sentenced to penal servitude or hard labour;
and the Visiting Justices shall make rules as to the
amount and nature of such employment; and
prisoners who properly perform the work allotted to
them may be allowed rations according to the scale
of diet for prisoners employed at hard labour.
53. The Gaoler may employ any prisoners as cook,
wardsmen, or yardsmen, subject to the approval of a
Visiting Justice; but no prisoner shall, except on a
special order of the Visiting Justices in writing, be
employed as clerk, turnkey, assistant turnkey, over-
seer, monitor, or schoolmaster, or in the discipline
of the prison, or in the service of any officer thereof,
or in the service or instruction of any other prisoner.
Health of Prisoners.
54. Prisoners, if employed at work in their own