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Appendix A.

Structural Arrangements of Fremantle Gaol.

Drainage of the Prison within the Main Walls.

OLD SYSTEM—PLAN No. 1. The whole area was drained by two main drainage tunnels, North and South, which discharge the sewage into the Recreation Reserve and the large cesspits on the flat or gardens outside the walls. SOUTH TUNNEL.—This draIn received the drainage from Dr. Hope's house and stables, scour, and overflow pipe from Old Reservoir. Cookhouse and Yard. Pump Yard. Trial Yard—With urine of prisoners in the morning (part only). Surface Drainage of about one-half the whole area. NORTH TUNNEL.—This drain received the surface and front water as follows:— Bath Water and water from washing towels, clothing, etc., bath-house. Trial Yard.—Urine and soapy water of prisoners' pots and buckets (part only). Refractory Yard.—Waste from three bath, washing prisoners' private clothing and clothing of such of the prisoners as have contagious diseases. Probation Yard.—The drainage of urinal, the urine mixed with faeces of six closet pans, the urine and soapy water from pots and buckets. Hospital Yard.—Waste from bath, foul water from washing clothes, lavatory, pots, and night-stools. (The drains require lifting, relaying, and trapping.) Imperial Prisoners' Depôt.—The drainage from baths, kitchen, pots, and lavatories of prisoners, the drainage from the warder's private residence, and the surface drainage. Scour and Overflow pipes from the New Reservoir are connected with the drain from Depôt, and thence forward to the main drain. Female Prisoners.—The surface drainage, urine, bath water, foul water from bath-house and laundry, kitchen, etc., and the drainage from female warders' quarters. Chaplain's House.—The whole of the slop-water, bath, kitchen, wash-house, and surface waters are conveyed into the drain coming from the Female Prison. SUBSIDIARY DRAINS— Superintendent's Residence Gatekeeper's do. Chief Warder's do. The Guard-room Yard These are connected with a drain discharging into the gardens on the flat below the Prison, where there is generally a pool of foul water. Magistrate's Residence is drained by a separate cast-iron drain-pipe into the corner of the Reserve, and has to discharged slop, kitchen, and surface water.