AnnualReport-1928 — Page 250

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GAMBLING,

There were 165 successful Gambling Cases for the year ending December 1928 as against 239 in the year 1927.

There were four cases in which no conviction was obtained.

There were 74 lottery cases, compared with 74 in 1927.

MENDICANTS.

During the year, one thousand and fifty-four mendicants were arrested and dealt with as follows:-

36 mendicants charged before the Magistrate.

7 sent to Tung Wah Hospital.

227 released.

8 sent to Amoy.

11 sent to Canton.

775 sent to Deep Bay.

With the exception of items 2 and 3 about 80% of the mendicants had been sent out of this Colony more than once.

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:

1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Victoria 579 285 268 867 358 Kowloon 819 674 637 801 1,077 Harbour 219 124 110 37 139 Elsewhere 93 98 99 112 106 Total 1,716 1,181 1,114 1,817 1,680 Males 968 670 644 791 992 Females 715 472 430 479 670 Unknown 33 39 40 47 18

Corrected and reformatted the table for dead bodies found by Police during the last 5 years.

Replaced "??" with a more appropriate representation is not needed as per the rules; instead, the original text's intent is kept by removing the line entirely as it seems to be an error or incomplete information.

The year "1923" is corrected to "1928" in the last column header to maintain consistency with the rest of the table.