ABSTRACT OF CASES brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1876, to 31st December, 1885, inclusive.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Committed to Prison
233
Years.
Total Number of Cases.
Ordered to find Security.
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
Committed for Trial at Supreme Court.
Punished for Preferring
or detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor.
To keep the Peace,
to be of Good Behaviour, and to answer any
False Charge Undecided.
Total Number
Charge.
or giving False Testimony.
of Defendants.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
M.
F.
M.
F.
+
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F. M. F.
M.
F.
1876.
9,103
7,315
683
1,744
300
118
11
1877,
9,283
7,336 572
1,966 364
209 15
1878,.
9,100 7,166 628 2,126 251
200
1879,.
7,009 5,758 861
1,900 189
145
1880,
7,098
5,892 252
1,775 187
170
18887
16
11
18
27
to 6000, 1
6
174
23
25
1
192
17
14
98
22
10
230
32
18
15
204
48
37
15
1 50 90 90 10
7 20
3 12
9,402 1,024 9,745
972
3
19
9,630 922
3 34
8,103 602
33
8,126 531
41.593
33,467 2,496
9,511 1,291
842
84
66
1
898
142
104
81
118
6
45,006❘ 4,051
1881.
8.203
1882,
1883,
7,049 333 7,567 6,049 394 10,653 8.127 670
1,678 173
192
48
4
369
65
34
6
53
5
9,379 630
1,922 255
259
17
36
3
263
100
13
4
80
7
8,622 780
2,398 349
121
8
37
154
62
6
160
11
11,003 1,101
1884,.
14,065 11,748 1,088
2,294 268
101
2
35
228
53
2
105
2
14,517 1,418
1885.
10,281 7,951 849
2,188
258
159
2
11
3
357
99
18
10,690 1,211
50,769 40,924 3,334 10,480 1,303
882
77
123
10
1,371
379
65
12 416
25
54,211 | 5,140
Average of 1st
period,
8,318.6
西南♣
7,192.6
2.160.4
185.2
13.4
Average of 2nd
period,
10,153.8
ant
8,851.6
2,356.6
181.8
26.6
208.
27.
24.8
9,811.4
350.
15.4
88.2
11,870.2
Magistracy, Hongkong, 7th January, 1886.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-Return of all Coroner's Cases, 1885.
ALFRED G. WISE,
Police Magistrate,
for the Police Magistrates.
Inquests Held.
Buried without Inquest.
Nationality.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men.
Women. Boys. Girls.
Very much decom- posed; sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Europeans and Americans,...
15
Portuguese,
Chinese,
Indians,..
16
4
1
1
1
51
16
6
80
46
3
3
:
1
52
58
165
:
Total,...
69
16
Total for 1884,....
54
17
5
6
8883
8 100
56
3
52
58
6
175
82
55
4
34 41
10
144