Police.
The Cases brought under the notice of the Police during the last 5 years, were us follows:--
SERIOUS OFFENCES.
MINOR OFFENCES.
YEARS.
Number of
Number of
Cases.
Convicted. Discharged.
Cases.
Convicted. Discharged,
1882,
1883,
1884,
1885,
1886,
2,596
1,405
561
3,728
3,602
846
2,423
1,178
485
6,265
4,014
1,024
2,652
1,297
560
7,551
4,743
1,102
2,466
1,298
561
4,809
8,707
737
2,500
1,389
472
6,336
6,457
672
Total,.
12,687
6,567
2,639
27,189
22,523
4,401
Average of 5 years,
2,627.4
1,318.4
527.8
6,437.8
.4,504.6
880.2
Do. ending 1881,
2,270.8
1,345,8
446.6
4,421.8
3,797.4
790.4
27.— Hospitals, &c.
Civil Hospital.
The admissions to the Government Civil Hospital during the year were as follows, as compared with, 1885.
1885.
1886.
Police,
495
602
Board of Trade,.
100
132
Private paying Patients,
283
381
Government Servants,
124
144
Police Cases,
238
142
Destitutes,.....
270
222
1,510
1,623
The total admissions to the Ilospital and Deaths during the last five years were as follows:-
Years.
1882,
1883,
1884,
1885,
1886,
Admissions.
Deaths,
1,414
68
1,436
70
1,308
50
1,510
76
1,623
79
The admissions from the Police Force and the number of Deaths for the past five years were a follows:-
Years.
1852...... 1883..
1884,...
1885,...
1886,.
Admissions.
Deaths.
549
8
599
10
486
7
495
9 (a.)
602
11 (b.)
The admissions of Europeans werc, in 1885, 124, as compared with 138 in 1886; the Chinese were 163, in 1885, as compared with 221 in 1886; and the Indians were 208 in 1885 as compered with
243 in 1886.
(4.) Only a of these diel in Hospital, 1 died at his own residence, and 3 died whilst on leave, (4.) In Hospital.