125
BURIED WITHOUT Formal Enquiries.
TABLE A-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1897.
FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD.
7
NATIONALITY.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Europeans and Americans,
Indians and Malays,..
11
:
11
+
2
1
:
:
Japanese,
Chinese,
I
1
32
16
4
6
58
128
27
212 208
16
591
Total,...
43
16
6
69
135
30
213 208
16
602
Total for 1896, ...
35
8
2
3
48 228
36
149 141
35
589
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate.
Magistracy, 28th January, 1898.
TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1897.
FINDING.
Euro-
peals.
Chinese.
Total.
Men.
Men. Women. Boys.
Girls.
Accidental drowning,
Accidental death.......
Accidental death-Suffocated by a fall of earth,.
Accidentally drowned,
Cause of death-Fracture of the skull caused by a fall from a verandah whilst
suffering from the effects of drink,
1
Cause of death-Pressure on the brain from hemorrhage the result of a blow given by one Meelun, a seaman on board H. I. G. M. S. Arcona, with a stick,.
:
10
1
1
1
12 1
1
1
:
:
Compound fracture of the skull occasioned by a fall while attempting to escape
from the lawful arrest of the Police,
Death by burning occasioned by an accidental outbreak of fire in Houses
Nos. 14 and 15, Fuk Tsun Heung,
Death by drowning caused by the subsidence of 360 feet of the Praya Recla-
mation wall. We attach no blame to anybody,
Death by opium poisoning, but how or by whom adininistered to the Deceased,
there is no evidence before the Court to show,..
Death from an overdose of opium,..
Death from asphyxia,
Death from asphyxia caused by a wound inflicted on the neck of the deceased with some sharp instrument by some person supposed to be the husband of the deceased and with intent to murder,
Death from asphyxia caused by hanging, self-inflicted,
Death from heat apoplexy,.
Death from injuries received from a blow from a drum weighing thirty-four pounds and falling a distance of thirty feet upon the bead of the deceased,... Death from intra-cranial hemorrhage occasioned by a fall from the hatch of
the main deck of the S.S. Haimun into the hold below,.....
Death from natural causes,..
Death from phthisis,
Death from suffocation or fire upon the occasion of the destruction of House
64, Third Street by fire on the night of the 23rd November,... Death occasioned by injuries received from a fall in jumping over the verandah of the first floor of the Government Civil Hospital in which he was a patient while in a state of mental aberration,
Carried forward,.......
:
:
3
**
1
:
:
I
2
.:
--:
1
N
1
:
:
:.
1
+
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
8
5
15
I
3
24
14
4
5
50