APPENDIX 12
A Summary of the work done at the Hong Kong and Kowloon Public Mortuaries. 1955
Total No. of Post-mortem Examinations performed during the year 4,121
No. of male badies examined
No, of female bodies examined
Sex unknown owing to decomposition
No. of claimed bodies sent from hospital, etc.
No. of unclaimed bodies, mostly abandoned
No. of bodies cromated
No. of Chinese bodies examined
No. of non-Chinese bodies examined
No. of Melico-Legal Cases
No. of hedies under 2 years of age
No. of bodies over 2 years of are
Kowloon Martuary:
APPENDIX 12–Contd.
Water Police Station
Tsim Sha Tsui (Land) Police Station
6
12
Yaumati
Police
Station
101
2,544
Mongkok
69
1,562
Shamshuipo
363
Bul
K
12
Kowloon City
385
1+
RM
Hung Hom
65
1.288
Tsuen Wan
64
**
=
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2,433
Castle Peak
16
*
n
692
Ping Shan
56
Tr
րի
4,101
Lak Ms Chap
9
--
+
Pat Heung
10
PP
my
20
Sheung Shui
29
t
3
19
850
Takuling
LA
14
PX
Male Female Total
Sha Tau Kok
Tai Po
1,067 941 2,008
1,476 626 2,101
Sha Tin
Sui Kung
Tai O
+
+
-
68
TI
+
5
++
D
זו
Cheung Chau „
++
Maurine Grantham
Health Centre, N.T.
10
St. Andrew's Mat. Home
Hospitals, etc.
1.848
3,126
No. of bodies received from the following sources:
Hong Kong Mortuary:
Victoria Distriçl
Shaukiwan District
502
111
Infant Hospitals
25
Other Hospitals
206
Marine Police Station
114
Cheung Chau Police Station
24
Tai O Police Station
15
No. of rats caught and brought to mortuaries
No. of rats examined
986
No. of rals' spleen smears taken for examination
No. of rats infected with plerue
91
260.992
200,992
16,500
Nil.