THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH MARCH, 1879.
ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE at the Police Magistrates' Court during a period of Ten Years from the 1st January, 1869, to 31st December, 1878, inclusive,
CASES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD,
Total Number
Years. of
Cases.
Convicted and Punished.
Committed for Trial at
Discharged.
Supreme Court.
Committed to Prison
or detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor.
151
Ordered to. Security.
d
Punished for Preferring False Charge
Total Num
Undecided.
Blants.
Defer
To keep the Peace,
to be of Good Behaviour, and
to answer
or giving False Testimony.
any Charge.
M.
F.
VI.
F.
M. F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M
1869, 4,781 4,418 504 1870, 5,936 5,702 609 1871. 6,400 6,143 673 1872, 9,950 1878, 9,187 1874,
8,079 1875, 8,055 6,749 890 1876, 9,103 7,315 683 1877, 9,283 7,336 572 1878, 9,100 7,166 628
1,998 186 2,065 261
120
9
9
2
295
23
127
12
336
2,406 311 148
1
28
414
16
11,185 999
2,426 294
137
23
44.
271
8,810 1,352
1.798 266
67
10
15
171
6,636 1,135
1,651 1,632 281
269
101
2
31
175
21
95
9
4
190
29
1,744 300
118
11
6
174
23
1,966 364 2,126 251 200 18
209
15
16
192
17
11
98
22
***=*/*REN
41
28
40
40
19
23
29
37
50
23
25
14
10
***ON 1- 1− 60 60
8
6
GRADBARRA?
708
732
32
6.
352
919
70
14
8.
11
32
1,017
9
13
599
1
14.
1,345
35
933
6
1,678
21
6
665
1,436
20
1
713
1.217
20
9.402
1,024
12
19
9745
972
9,330
922
L
1st Pol
C. MAY,
Magistrate.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 8th March, 1879.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-Return of all Coroner's Cases, 1878.
Inquest Held.
Nationality.
Grand Total.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. decomposed Total. 1878. 1877.
Buried without Inquest
Very auch
Sex lot as-
cert,inable.
Europeans and Americans,. Chinese,....
Malays and Indians,
22-
12
1
1
14
1
1
15
16
62
16
5
87
26
35
22
88
175
153
1
1
2
1
1
3
7
Total,...
75
17
6.
5
103
98
4
35
22
90
193
176
TABLE B.-Return of Inquests, 1878.
Europeans
Chinese.
and Americans.
Indians and Malays.
Total.
Verdicts.
Men. Women. Boys. | Men.
Women. Boys. Girls. Men. Women. Girls.
Felo de Se,
Justifiable Homicide,*
Manslaughter,
Natural Causes,
Do.,
Murder,
Suicide while Insane,...
Total,..
Accidental Death,
Died from Gun Shot wound,.....
Found Dead, (Cause of Death unknown),
5
23
5
3
2
I
39
1
1
6
3
3
1
2
3
in Gaol,.............
14
464
1:02
•
15
13
6
12
1
1
62
16
5
4
1
1
103
* Robber shot in Wing-lok Street by P. C. Campbell.
TABLE C.-Return of Burials without Inquest, 1878.
Reason why no Inquest was held.
Europeans and Americans.
Chinese.
Indians.
Very much decomposed Total. Sex not as-
Found on Shore.
Found in Harbour.
certainable.
Men. Women. { Men.
Women. Boys. Girls. Men.
Known.
Un- known.
Known.
Un- known.
No suspicious Circum-]
stances,
16
4
20
6
1
47
10
31
Q.
2
4
No evidence and decom-
or
14
16
I
39
24
15
:
posed State of Body,
Post Mortem satisfactory,...
3
1
*
4
1
2
1
Total,..
26
4
35
22
1
found
1
90
11
57
2
20
C. V. CREAGH,
Coroner.
Coroner's Office, Hongkong, 8th March, 1879.