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TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1898.
FINDING.
Accidental death,
Accidental death, resulting on Electric shock,
Acute alcoholic poisoning,...
Acute gastritis caused by an overdose of arsenic--accidentally self-
administered,
An overdose of chloral. Nothing before the Court to show that
Deceased intended to take his life,
Chronic Bronchitis and Thrombosis,
Collapse and shock consequent on submersion, the cause of the sub- mersion being accidental, the launch Alexandra being in no way to blame,.....
Collapse caused by the irritation caused by the gall stone,
Consumption,
Death by hanging in accordance with the sentence of the law,. Death by opium poisoning,
Death caused by fracture of the skull from a blow struck by the fore-
man in self-defence,
Death caused by tubercular disease of long standing,.
Death from dislocation of the neck caused by the execution by hang- ing of the three deceased under sentence of death by the Supreme Court and by Warrant of the Governor dated the 6th January, 1898,
Exhaustion from multiple liver abscesses,
Found dead. Nothing before the Court to show the cause of death,....... Murdered by pirates in Chinese waters,
Opium poisoning, self-administered,..
Plague,
Shock resulting from Burns,.
Suicide by hanging,
Syncope in acute gastritis and acute pancrititis,.
That deceased died from dislocation of the neck and consequent com- pression of the spinal cord occasioned by being hanged by the neck in the due execution of the sentence of death passed upon. him in the Supreme Court and confirmed by the Governor's War- rant dated the 2nd day of February, 1898,
Magistracy, Hongkong, 10th January, 1899.
Total,..
Euro-
peans.
Indians.
Chinese.
Total.
Men. Men. Men.
Women. Boys.
Girls.
1
~:
1
3
3
1
::
1
1
2
1
5
2
20
***
1
Ι
1
Ι
1
1
1
1
2
1
I
I
3
1
1
2
2
1
එය
3
1
32
WM. C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Police Magistrate.
TABLE C-RETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1898.
Reason why no Formal Enquiry was held.
Chinese.
Europeans and Americans.
Indians
and
Malays.
Japanese.
Men. Women Boys. Girls. Men. Women Boys. Girls. Men. Girls. Men. women.
Sex not
ascertainable.
Found on
Found in
Land,
Harbour,
Total.
Known..
Un-
known.
Known.
Un-
known.
No suspicious circumstances,
375
153 318 292 13
1
1
2 3
1
*
***
1,159
364❘ 585
58
152
■
No evidence and/or decomposed
state of body,
19
13 51 55 2
25 165
6 57
2 100
Post Mortem satisfactory,
17
2
on
3
2
1
1
:
...
***
35
223
22 11
Suspected persons were charged for the murder of deceased,..
1
2
***
Suspected persons were charged for causing the death of de- ceased,
H
1
Total,.
412
171 378 350
17 3
1
2
3
1
Ι
1
2
25 1,365 396 653 62 254
2
Magistracy, Hongkong, 10th January, 1899.
WM. C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Police Magistrate,