AnnualReport-1922 — Page 230

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The total number of accidents reported during the year was 110 as against 135 in 1921:

1. Motor Car

2. Truck

3. Ricksha

4. Tramcar

Total

74

13

6

17

110

The total number of fatal accidents was 22 as against 16 in

1921:

1. Motors

2. Trucks

...

3. Tramcar...

Total

12

2

8

22

MENDICANTS.

During the year 1922, three hundred and thirty-nine mendicants are arrested and dealt with as follows :--

5 mendicants charged before the Magistrate.

10

4

12

1

221

19

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sent to Tung Wah Hospital handed back to their parents, sent to Shanghai.

let go by order of C.S.P.

sent to Canton once.

5)

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50

twice.

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1)

*

20

3 times.

12

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3

12

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5

45

1)

13

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2

6

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1.

11

15

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1

14

1)

13

Total,

389

DEAD BODIES,

Table II shows the number of unknown dead bodies found by the Police in the streets and elsewhere during the year.

DEPORTEES AND VAGRANTS.

918 persons were banished from Hongkong as compared

with 847 in 1921.

737 persons were deported from the Straits Settlements and sent home by the Police as against 651 in 1921.

1,624 persons discharged from Victoria Gaol were entered in Police Criminal Records as against 1,748 in 1921.