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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE

Table II.—Annual Population of Prisons at the End of Each Year for Twenty Retrospective
Years, from 1901 to 1882 Inclusive.

Year.	Prisoners.	Non-con- demned Children under Correction.	Accused Persons.	Ex-convicts in Special Peniten- tiary Establish- ments having no Residence Outside.	Babies.	Total.	Percentage for Twenty Years.
Year.	Prisoners.	Non-con- demned Children under Correction.	Accused Persons.		Babies.	Total.	Prisoners.	Non-con- demned Children under Correction	Accused Persons.	Ex-convicts in Special Peniten- tiary Establish- ments having no Residence outside.	Babies.	General Average.

1901	49,579	152	18,058	0,998	093	58,880
1900	49,260	144	17,275	0,923	100	57,702
1899	50,576	144	16,287	1,008	102	58,147
1898	58,918	213	19,395	1,774	332	70,632
1897	57,127	185	10,050	1,551	352	69,265
Average for 5 years	53,092	174	18,213	1,251	196	62,925	193.8	191.6	186.3	182.3	169.8	191.1

1896	64,287	157	19,202	1,436	341	75,423
1895	65,234	209	10,070	1,694	344	77,551
1894	67,261	252	10,895	2,192	401	81,001
1893	65,617	230	11,243	1,693	392	79.175
1892	64,153	244	19,292	2,001	367	76,057
Average for 5 years	65,310	218	10,140	1,803	369	77,847	115.5	114.7	106.6	118.6	131.3	114.4

1891	61,595	274	19,728	1,656	341	73,594
1890	57,615	258	19,378	1,829	366	69,446
1889	54,408	231	18,173	0,850	346	64,008
1888	54,126	173	15,466	1,064	228	61,057
1887	55,688	179	16,542	1,419	222	64,080
Average for 5 years	56,686	223	17,857	1,364	301	66,431	100.2	117.4	182.6	189.7	107.1	197.6

1886	61,121	217	18,560	1,920	272	72,090
1885	63,338	169	12,278	2,540	355	78,680
1884	55,517	124	14,191	1,867	320	72,019
1883	42,257	119	14,322	1,237	202	58,137
1882	33,351	105	19,848	0,782	147	44,205
Average for 5 years	51,117	147	11,840	1,663	260	65,026	190.4	177.4	124.5	109.4	192.5	195.5

Average for 20 years	56,551	190	19,513	1,520	281		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Note.—The considerable increase of babies after 1900 is the result of an amendment of Prison Regulations restricting the age of admittable children to that of less than one year instead of less than three years, as in the old provisions.