AnnualReport-1883

Years.

Total Number of Cases.

Committed

Convicted and Punished.

for Trial at

Discharged.

Supreme

Court.

ABSTRACT OF CASES brought under COGNISANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1874, to 31st December, 1883, inclusive.

CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.

Committed to Prison

or detained pending Orders of His Excellency

Ordered to find Security.

Punished for Preferring

To keep the Peace,

False Charge Undecided.

Total Number

to be of Good

Behaviour, and

or giving

the Governor.

to answer any

Charge.

False Testimony.

of Defendants.

1 2 M. ** 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1874, 8,079 6,636 1,135 1,031 269 101 2 31 1 175 21 50 1375, 8,055 6,749 890 1,632 281 95 9 4 190 29 23 1876, 9,103 7,815 683 1,744 300 118 11 6 174 23 25 1877, 9,283 7,836 572 1,966 364 209 15 16 192 14 1878, 9,100 7,166 628 2,126 251 200 18 11 98 10 1879, 7,009 1880, 5,758 361 7,008 5,892 262 1,775 187 1,900 180 145 13 18 230 18 170 27 15 204 48 37 15 35 21 1 0 0 0 10 1881, 7 20 3 12 1882, 8,203 7,049 333 7,367 6,049 394 1883, 10,653 8,127 670 1,678 173 192 48 4 369 63 84 53 1,922 255 209 17 36 263 100 13 4 80 2,398 349 121 8 87 1 154 62 6 288 226 88 6 8,865 1,436 1 8,713 1,217 9,402 1,024 9,745 972 19 9,630 922 34 8,103 602 8,126 531 9,379 630 8,622 780 160 11 11,003 1,101 Grand Totals for the Ten Year's...... 84,150 68,077 5,918 18,792 2,618 1,010 168 178 6 2,049 419 230 50 452 36 91,388 9,215 Average per Year, 8,415 6,807.7 591.8 1,879.2 261.8 101 16.8 17.8 .6 204.9 41.0 23 5 45.2 3.6 9,138.8 921.5

Magistracy, Hongkong, 1st February, 1884.

Nationality.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

TABLE A.-Return of all Coroner's Cases, 1883.

Inquests Held. Buried without Inquest. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Europeans and Americans,... 7 1 3 11 3 3 Chinese, 48 16 13 11 88 46 7 45 48 11 157 Indians, 2 2 1 1 Total, 57 17 16 11 101 59 50 7 45 48 11 161 Total for 1882, 81 14 00 8 113 53 40 38 3 141

H. E. WODEHOUSE,

Senior Police Magistrate.

Very much decomposed: sex not ascertainable.