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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 7 in No. 33.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been Tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, from 15th February to 15th December, 1848, inclusive.
Crime No. of Cases No. of Persons Conviction Acquittal Death Transportation Hard labour over 1 Year Hard labour under 1 Year Affray 1 2 1 1 1 Administering poison with intent to kill 1 Arson 1 Aggravated assault 4 Assault 1 1 1 1 Assault and battery 17 20 19 1 19 Assaulting a police officer 1 2 2 1 1 Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty 2 2 2 2 Assault with intent to commit sodomy 1 Assault with intent to rob 1 Breaking into a building and stealing therefrom 4 Burglary and larceny 4 10 Culting and wounding with intent to do some grievous bodily harm 4 Demanding money with menaces 1 Demanding money with menacer and force, with intent to steal same 1 Forgery 1 Larceny 13 Larceny in a dwelling-house, over $1 2 Manslaughter 1 Murder by stabbing 1 2 1 1 1 Obtaining goods by falsa pretences 1 Perjury 2 2 2 2 Receiving stolen goods 2 Robbery 13 Robbery by a person armed 2 Robbery by persons armed 13 Robbery with arms 2 Robbery with arms, and receiving stolen goods 1 Robbery with violence 1 Stealing cattle 3 Stealing from the person 1 Stealing in a boat in port 1 Stealing in a boat within 100 miles of the coast of China 1 Uttering a forged cheque 1 Sodomy 1 1 1 1 Total 94 157Encl. 8 in No. 38.
Remarks.
No. of Cases No. of Persons Charge Postponed 15 26 Charge abandoned 1 Out on their own recognizances and failed to appear 6W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Enclosure 8 in No. 38.
REPORT of the COLONIAL SURGEON for 1848.
In compiling a sanatory report upon this colony for the past year, attention is called to three important objects.
1. To deduce from such materials as are attainable, the most concise and the best evidence of the actual state of the health of the community.
2. To trace out the various causes of endemic diseases, or those which are peculiar to the locality.
3. To point out the general or political and social measures which may or ought to be taken for the removal of such causes.
The defect in statistical records of population, disease, and death,--a defect ascribable to the peculiar character of the people, and the limited and insular nature of the colony,-is a serious obstacle to the faithful prosecution of the first inquiry. Until the establishment of the civil hospital, which will assist in affording scrupulous exactness to the future records of sickness in the various Government departments, the system pursued in the treatment of the sick