# Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
# COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL
posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licentiates in the public service, the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the College, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a reference library and museum.
## VIII-CRIMINAL AND POLICE
The total of all cases reported to the police was 11,517, being a decrease of 295, or 2.49 per cent., over those reported in 1904. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences there is a decrease in the former, as compared with the previous year, from 3,532 to 2,984, that is of 15.51 per cent., occurring in every nature of crime with the exception of assault with intent to rob.
The number of serious offences reported was 772 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1901.
The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 253 over the number for 1904, mainly in offences against the Spirits and Prepared Opium Ordinances.
The number of minor offences reported was 1,454 over the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 6,323, as compared with 7,464 in 1904, but of these only 2,816 were committed for criminal offences, against 4,027 in 1904. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 121 more under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 132 less for infringement of Sanitary By-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the gaol was 697, the highest previous average being 726 in 1904. The percentage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was 184, as compared with 214, the average percentage for the last ten years. The prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punishments per prisoner being 1.47, as compared with 11 in 1904 and 2.34 in 1903. The continued overcrowding of the gaol emphasises the necessity for the proposed new convict prison, and the question of a fresh site has for some time past been under consideration.
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licentiates in the public service, the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes. during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the College, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a reference library and museum.
VIII-CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the police was 11,517, being a decrease of 295, or 2:49 per cent., over those reported in 1904. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences there is a decrease in the former, as compared with the previous year, from 3,532 to 2,984, that is of 15:51 per cent., occurring in every nature of crime with the exception of assault with intent to rob.
The number of serious offences reported was 772 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1901.
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The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 253 over the number for 1904, mainly in offences against the Spirits and Prepared Opium Ordinances.
The number of minor offences reported was 1,454 over the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 6,323, as compared with 7,464 in 1904, but of these only 2,816 were committed for criminal offences, against 4,027 in 1904. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 121 more under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 132 less. for infringement of Sanitary By-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the gaol was 697, the highest previous average being 726 in 1904. The percentage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was 184, as compared with 214, the average percentage for the last ten years. The prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punishments per prisoner being 1:47, as compared with 11 in 1904 and 2.34 in 1903. The continued overcrowding of the gaol emphasises the necessity for the proposed new convict prison, and the question of a fresh site has for some time past been under consideration.
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