128
Total.
MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRIES INTO DEATHS.
TABLE 4.--RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1895.
NATIONALITY.
Men.
FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD,
BURIED WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES.
Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Very much decomposed; sex. not ascertainable.
Europeans and Americans,
10
:
Indians and Malays,.............
2
:
Chinese,...........
29
3
2
11
A
:
:
1
ลง
2
1
1
ลง
2
36
125
19
118 116
3
2
386
Total...........
41
3
3
2
49
128
20
118 117
8
391
Total for 1894, ..
64
3
4
2
73
119
15 129 102
8
373
TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1895.
FINDING.
Accidental death,
Accidental death by drowning,
Europeans
and Americans.
Indians.
Chinese.
Total.
Men.
Boys.
Men.
Men. Women.
Boys. Girls.
:::
...
1
:
LA
5
*
1
1
J
1
1
6
:
:
:.
:
Accidentally burnt to death,.
Accidentally drowned,
Death by accidental drowning,.....
Accidentally shot during regimental firing,.
Death by hanging self administered,
Death by hanging from the neck in pursuance of a sentence of death passed in accordance with law and duly carried out
upon the two deceased, Au Chun and Li Pong, on the morning of the 29th day of January, 1895,
Death by misadventure,
Death from fever,
Death from fracture of skull caused by a log jamming deceased's
head against side of the steamer Iser,
Death from injuries sustained to the base of the skull,
Death from natural causes,
Death occasioned by injuries received through the collapse of a wall during the re-construction of a building after its destruction by fire,.......
Death occasioned by peritonitis which was caused by a stab in the loins inflicted together, with other wounds, on the deceased by some person or persons unknown,
Death occurred in consequence of injuries received by falling through the hatchway of the 'tween deck to the lower hold, there being no evidence to show in what manner the fall was occasioned, Death resulted from a revolver or pistol bullet wound; but under what circumstances inflicted there is no sufficient evidence to show,
Death resulted from a self-inflicted razor wound, apparently inflicted under the influence of depression of mind amount- ing to temporary aberration of reason,.
Death resulted from hemorrhage and shock occasioned by mutilation of the body and a wound on the left leg; but under what circumstances occurring there is no evidence to show,
Found drowned,
Hæmorrhage from a bullet wound self inflicted,..
.
:
1
13:
1
1
1
:
1
1
1
1
1
1
:
:
:
116
1
1
:
:
:
:
1
1
Carried forward,..
7
1
2
23
1
35