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Scope and Content Note

These are statistical records of the population of incarcerated individuals.

The first volume, covering 1879-1906, gives the date; total number in prison at morning; number received; number discharged; total number in prison at evening; and remarks. The second volume begins in 1908 and covers the years until 1938. The form is changed, giving the date; number of patients, lodgers, and assistants in hospital; number of applications for treatment; number treated; number not treated; number excused from labor; total in prison; number received; number discharged; number pardoned; number died; number sent to Asylum; number transferred; number discharged by writ; number escaped; and remarks.

Unbound forms cover the years 1941-1942 and 1951-1952. The form is changed again, this time to provide for the date; number received from courts (new commitments), other Department of Correction institutions, returned from parole, returned from courts (writs witnesses, etc.), from escape, and others; number released by parole, expiration of sentence, commutation, to courts in compliance with writs and court orders, to other Department of Correction institutions, escaped, or died; number in cells, regular dormitories, improvised dormitories, cottages, hospital (help and sick), segregation (help and others), death house (help and condemned), at farm, camps, court, sick or funeral visit, other locations; totals; and signature of principal keeper.