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SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAM.


The following are the details of the more important offences dealt with summarily by the magistrates during the last live years:—

Similar statistics for 1883 have not yet been made up, but a return up to December 31 of that year shows that the number of persons committed during the year to the Borough Gaol, or, as it is now termed, her Majesty's Prison at Winson Green, were 3,044 males and 1,045 females from the borough, and 1,772 males and 521