TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1892.
FINDING.
and
Europeans
Americans.
Indians
and
Japanese.
167
Chinese.
Malays.
Tota
Men.
Men, Men. Men. Women. Boys.
Girls.
2
2
11
1
1
1
1
2
•
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Accidental death,
Do.,
and woman cautioned to have the bar put
across the window,...................
Accidental death by burning,
Accidental death from injuries received by fire,
Accidentally drowned,
Cause of death hemorrhage from rupture of the spleen, Cause of death hemorrhage resulting from self-inflicted wounds, Cause of death haemorrhage resulting from rupture of left formal artery. RIDER:That some prevention should be taken to prevent the Chinese from wandering over the rifle ranges during practice or approaching skirmishing parties, Cause of death failure of heart due to disease, Death by drowning consequent upon the capsizing of the boat in which the deceased was, the said boat coming into collision with the S.S. Pauting when attempting to cross her bows at the time that the said steamer was going dead slow and making for her buoy in Hongkong Harbour, Death from natural causes,
Death from hemorrhage resulting from rupture of the spleen.. Death from a dose of carbolic acid self-administered, Death from narcotic poisoning,....
Death from injuries consequent upon a fall from a bridge on
Kennedy Road,
Death from rupture of the intestine occasioned by injuries sustained in a fall while attempting to escape from the Police who were at the time executing a warrant on a suspected gambling house,
Death from poisoning but whether administered each to each or by one to the other there is no sufficient evidence to show, Death from syncope occasioned by a fall into the water from a
height of about fifty feet,
Death from peritonitis occurring from natural causes, Death from hanging,
Death from opium poisoning self-administered,
Death from pneumonia resulting from self-inflicted wounds in
the throat,
Death from a fall while attempting to escape from the Police
who had entered the house on a gambling warrant, Death from syncope incurred while bathing off Hung Hom
Dock in Victoria Harbour,
1
1
1
:
1
Death from injuries received from a blow from a stone pro-
jected from a rock during blasting,
:
:
:
:
:
1
Death occasioned from injuries received from the falling of a party wall upon No. 8, Fuk On Lane, thereby causing it to collapse and its ruins to fall upon the deceased. The falling of the party wall occasioned by the pressure of earth against it, such earth having been piled against it in order to make an approach to a new house in course of erection belonging to a woman named Chung Shi, Death resulted from acute moist gangrene occasioned by injuries received from a fall while endeavouring to escape from lawful custody,
Death resulted from injuries sustained by the plough steel rope coming against the deceased through a mistake of the pointsman at the time in charge of the points,......................... Death resulted from injuries received from falling into the
hold of the J. D. Bischoff,
Death resulted from injuries received from a blow on the temple supposed to have been inflicted by a man named Tsoi Ỹin alias Mak Yau,
Deceased died from the effects of a bullet wound self-inflicted, Found drowned..................................
Found dead in the Harbour of Victoria floating in the water, That the deceased died from the effects of wounds inflicted by
some person or persons unknown,
That the deceased died while in Victoria Gaol on a remand warrant, such death being occasioned by asphyxia caused by the act of the deceased in hanging himself,
The deceased died from the effects of a bullet wound self-
inflicted during a temporary aberration of reasons,, Wilful murder against person or persons unknown,
Total,........
2
4
1
1
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:
-:
I
14
:
4
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
I
1
1
1
:..
1
1
1
:
:
-
9
3
:
1
1
:
:
:
:
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
=
1 32
:
A
:
1
2
1
to
6
5
60