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LOST PROPERTY.
The following is a return showing Property lost or recovered:
Year.
Articles reported lost.
Value lost.
Articles recovered and found but not reported lost.
Value of articles found.
1927 348 18,125.18 122 1,453.80 1926 410 $29,268.07 133 $3,119.74GAMBLING.
There were 239 successful Gambling Cases for year ending December 1927 as against 233 in the year 1926.
There were six cases in which no conviction was obtained.
There were 74 lottery cases, compared with 99 in 1926.
MENDICANTS.
During the year 1927 seven hundred and forty-five mendicants were arrested and dealt with as follows:
3 mendicants charged before the Magistrate.
4 released.
11 handed back to parents.
481 sent to Tung Wah Hospital.
241 sent to Canton.
4 sent out of Colony once.
31 more than once.
7 寥寥
DEAD BODIES.
The following table shows the number of unknown dead bodies found by Police in the Streets and elsewhere during the last 5 years:
1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 Victoria 959 579 285 268 367 Kowloon 381 819 674 637 801 Harbour 169 219 124 110 37 Elsewhere 19 99 98 99 112 Total 1,528 1,716 1,181 1,114 1,317 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 Males 827 968 670 644 791 Females 670 715 472 430 479 Unknown 31 33 39 40 47 Children 60 106 45 94 132 Adults 1,468 1,610 1,136 1,020 1,185