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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine was founded in 1897. The government of the College is vested in the Court, of which the Rector of the College, who has always been a Government official, is President. Ninety-six students have been enrolled up to the end of 1906, and of these, 29 have become qualified licentiates and have obtained various 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 11,144, being a decrease of 373 or 3.23 per cent, as compared with 1905. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences, there is an increase in the former, as compared with the previous year, from 2,984 to 3,333, that is of 11.69 per cent., occurring mainly in unlawful possession.
The number of serious offences reported was 408 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1902.
The number of minor offences reported shows a decrease of 722 as compared with 1905.
The number of minor offences reported was 324 below the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,799, as compared with 6,227 in 1905, but of these, only 2,575 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,816 in 1905. Of committals for non-criminal offences, there were 199 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance, and 25 more for infringement of Sanitary By-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the gaol was 518, 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 161 as compared with 183, the average percentage for the last ten years. The prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punishments per prisoner being 1.21, as compared with 1.47 in 1905 and 1.1 in 1904.
The remunerative labour carried on in the gaol consists of printing, bookbinding, washing, carpentry, bootmaking, net-making, painting and whitewashing, matmaking, tailoring,
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine was founded in 1897. The government of the College is vested in the Court, of which the Rector of the College, who has always been a Government official, is President. Ninety-six students have been enrolled up to the end of 1906, and of these, 29 have become qualified licentiates and have obtained various 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 Govern- ment 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 11,144, being a decrease of 373 or 3.23 per cent, as compared with 1905. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences, there is an increase in the former, as compared with the pre- vious year, from 2,984 to 3,333, that is of 11-69 per cent., occurring mainly in unlawful possession.
The number of serious offences reported was 408 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1902.
The number of minor offences reported shows a decrease of 722 as compared with 1905.
The number of minor offences reported was 324 below the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,799, as compared with 6,227 in 1905, but of these, only 2,575 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,816 in 1905. Of committals for non-criminal offences, there were 199 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance, and 25 more for infringe- ment of Sanitary By-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the gaol was 518, the highest previous average being 726 in 1904.
The per- centage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was 161 as compared with 183, the average percentage for the last ten years. The prison discipline was satisfactory, the average of punishments per prisoner being 1-21, as compared
with 1:47 in 1905 and 1·1 in 1904.
The remunerative labour carried on in the gaol consists of printing, bookbinding, washing, carpentry, bootmaking, net- making, painting and whitewashing, matmaking, tailoring,
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