THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH AUGUST, 1889.
TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR, 1888.
697
Europeans and Indi- Portu-
Americans.
Japanese.
Chinese.
ans. guese.
FINDING.
Total.
Wo-
Men,
Men. Men. Men.
men.
Wo-
men.
Men.
Wo- men.
Boys. Girls.
1
1
:
Accidental
death...
Death was caused by fatty degeneration
of the heart, accelerated by want of nourishment,.
Death by syncope occasioned by a shock brought on by the treatment received at the hands of the men charged at the Police Court and their fokis,... Death from injuries received from a fall
from a house...
Death from suppression of urine occa-
sioned by Sporadic cholera,
Death from exhaustion occasioned by
Sporadic cholera,
Died from the effect of eating poisonous
fish,
Felo de se,
Found dead,
Found drowned,
Justifiable homicide by some person or
persons unknown,
Natural causes (in Gaol),.
Manslaughter,
Sporadic cholera,
Suicide in an unsound state of mind,..
The deceased came to his death by fall-
ing, from the verandah of house No. 294, Queen's Road while attempting to escape from the arrest of the Police,
The Magistrate finds that the deceased died from rupture of the spleen and orders that Police Constable No. 729 be charged before the Magistrate with causing the death of the de- ceased,
Total,..
:
:
:
-
:
1
18
2
2
3
:
:
:
:
1
:
:
:
:
:
30
30
1
1
1
2
:
NANCI
1
1
1
43
2
5
3
63
Found 1
Found in
TABLE CRETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR, 1888.
Reason why no Formal Enquiry
was held.
Europeans and Americans.
Men.
Women.
Boys. Men.
No suspicious circumstances,......
3
:
No evidence and/or decomposedĮ
state of Body-
Post Mortem satisfactory, .........
1
1
76
13
Portu-
Chinese.
guese.
Women.
Boys. Girls.
Women.
Women.
Malay. Very much
de- composed;
Total.
sex not ascertain- able.
Land.
Known.
Harbour.
Un-
known.
Known.
Un.
known.
26 77
25
66
1
250
90
110
16
34
~
58
43
:
11
127
76
1143
1
50
1
1
1
5
4
1
Total....
3
1
1
90 29 136 109
1
1
1}
382
94
186 17
85
Magistracy, Hongkong, 5th February, 1889.
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.