APPENDICES
Appendix XI (See page 127)
RETURN OF SERIOUS OFFENCES
Offences against the person for the year 1953
Crime
Number of Cases Reported
Number of Cases cleared by charge
Number of Persons Charged or Summonsed
Number
of Cases under Investiga-
tion
or summons
Juv.
Adults
Murder
24
19
27
5
Murder-Attempted
18
16
16
2
Manslaughter
4
Assaults-Serious
192
161
3
194
31
Throwing Corrosive Fluids
2
2
2
Abortion
4
4
10
Unnatural Offences
7
6
2
1
Criminal Intimidation
3
2
2
Kidnapping
1
1
Rape
3
2
2
1
Indecent Assault
39
35
5
30
All Other Offences Against Women
and Girls
10
10
All Other Offences Against the Person
1
1
I
12
1
Total Serious Offences Against the
Person
308
262
10
304
46
243