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B.-Juin of Cases in which District Watcnuun kare deen concerned in the Interests of Justice, from the Rith of August last to the 20th of February, 1808, inclusies,
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WATCHXRX,
DATE.
LAGT.
No.
Xame.
Ko. of Defendants.
CASE.
Offence.
*g***
Lee Ayin,
....................... Aug. 27, | 1 Chinese,
...
Chow Atai, ............... Lee Achan,
28,1 Da
13
...
28, 1 Do
Larceny of a Coat, .........
30.1 Do..
Chan Akeng,...
Sept. 21,1 Do
Ling Amoon,..... Oct. 14,2 Chinese,... La! Akin,
21,1 European,
Do-,
•
Wong Ayiti, sp Chow Akye,.................] Kør.
Do,
Ling moon,--
Lai Akim,..
Decision
Larceny of 4 balls of Optum, an old offender, 3 months hard labor, and to fad Rogue and Vagabond,
Rogue and Vagabomi, ............
Maliciously damaging Property, Larceny
of a Jacket and pair of Trowsers,
Being out without Pass at night........... Drunk, disorderly, and resisting Police, 1 Chinese, Assaulting one Lai Aki¤................... 24.1
Do.,
...Rogue and Vagabond, ... 84 Europeaus, Asaulting kudian Actg. Sergeant No. 379, Chinese,... Being cut at night without Pass, ........................... 14 | 1 Indian, ........] Assaulting Watchman, 21, Ling Moon, .....] 16, | 2 Chinese, ...) Fighting in the Strvel, ...
Lareery of two Baxes,"
97, Da,
静
Wong A400,-.--non
n
n
21, 2 Do.,
Bew Arbor, ........... Tam Ashing, -****
29, 1 Do
99,1 Do., 20,1 Do.,
29, 1 Bo., Do.,
Do.,
Wong Arow,...
*Ng Akane,
Ling Amoon....... Dec. 12,
Lew Akew,
Wong Ayow,
ཨཕ་གྱི་ཅེས་རྩོལ
1808.
Wong Ayan, ure d'âme
Wong Ayan, -
To Aleem, ..**
Chun Ashing,
CW. Soo Aehow, ....................
********* ** ** ** ** **** Ban bat ba be****** * * *** *****82222
Chun Ashing,
Tam Ashing,-****
*** ** **
C.W.| Chin
Ting Hoy..........
Tam Ilo, NY ***
Feb.
C.W. | Chẩm
C.W. Chim Ting Hoy,
Ting Hoy..........
Ling Moon, ****
C.W. | Bea Chow,
Fang Cheung,
Lee Akow........
Chuu Akong -
Cham Asing, ...amann
Chan Akong....................
241,1 Da 91, 1 Du
10,1
Day
161 Do.,
20, 2 Da, 22, Da,
20, 1 Do.. 10, Do., 21,1 Da,
...Disturbance in a Licensed Gambling House,| ... Unlawful possession of Sugar Candy, &e.
from the fire, ...............................
Unlawful pesession of Clothes from the fire, ...Calawful possession of Calico, &e. from the
fire,*******
... Uulawful possession of Calico from the fire, ... Larceny,
1 M:quito Curtain, ...................... ...Asault on Watchman of the P. & O. Co.
Larceny of Money, ......................
... Catawful possession of old Copper, ...Larceny of one Basket,
་་་
29
1 Jacket and 2. Embrellas.......
Robbery from the person of 110 Taels,... Larceny of Money,.. Rogue and Vagabond,
Larceny of a quilt and bundle of Clother.... Rerue and Vagabond, an old offender, found
at large at night,
I month hard Inbor, (sourly for © muenchen.
1 month hard labor.
1 month bard labor.
30 days hard labor (14 days Solitary
confinement) 30 strokes, and to find security for 12 mouths.
RAMARIG
Flaed 50 cents each, or 1 day's Impt. One paid. Fined 1 Duilar.
Fined $1 or 3 days" Imprisonment.
3 months hard labor.
≈ fined $1 eack, and 2 discharged.
Paid
Not paid.
Paid
Fined 50ets, eneb, ur 2 days hard labor. Not paid. Fued 2 Dollars.
Paid
Fined 50 cents each.
1st Defudant 1 month, 2od Delen-
dant 3 months hard labor.
Fined $5 or 10 days Imprisonment. | Xot paid. Fined 20 shillings, or 14 days (mpri-
Forment.
3 weeks hard labor.
Fined 10 shillings, or 7 days Impri- Paid.
sonment.
Discharged.
2 months hard labor, and to find
security for 12 months,
To find security for 3 months, Fined $2 or 7 days hard labor.
6 months hard labor.
Fised £5.
3 months hard labor.
6 months hard labor, and to And
security for 6 months.
Paid.
Committed for Trial at Supreme Court. Sentence 2 year 2 months hard labor.
thand labor.
3 mouths hard labor, and to find
security for 3 months.
I munth bard labor,
9 months hard labor.
1 month hard labor and to find se-
eurity for 12 months.
91,1 Do., 31, 1
Do Do., 7,1
12,1 American, ¦ Awaulting a Hawker, 23,1 Furopean, Drunk and creating disturbance at a Licensed) Fined $5.
Brothel,
23, 1 Chinese,... Lareepy from the person,
Fined 35, 1 for the hawker.
1 year hard labor.
Larceny of 300 Tsels from the person,...... Hemanded to 5th March,
Fighting in the Street,
I mouth hard labor and to find se-
eurity for 8 months.
0 months hard labor and to fod se-
curity for 12 months
1 fined $5 or 3 Jays Imprisonment,
I discharged,
Calawful possession of a bundle of Clothes, Discharged. Fighting,...........
Fined $leach, or 2 daysImprisonment.
27,4 Do.,
Yung Yune, -****
11
Do. 11 Do
Larceny ofe quantity of Silk Handkerchief, Rogue and Vagabond, ...........................
On Remand,
#
7,1 Do.,
Larceny of 1 quilt, an old offender,
12,2 Do.,
#
12,1 Do.,
#t
17,3 Do.,
P
18, Do.,
Burglary,
18, Do.,
+
10. 1 Do.,
**
#
21, 1 Do
25, 1 Do.,
26,1 Do., Do.p 90,1 28,11 Do., 20,1 DO
Tam Ashing, ...man
Lee Afook,....O THE D
Ngal Átoong, ****
Chun Asking,
Tam Ashing, -******
Lam Achow, semasa
Wong Ayownswer” Foong Aebcung,"j Check Sow,
Tam Aho, ... *Sg Akam, .. Tam Ashing, -amnes Fooog Arbeung, -{
Tang Ashing,
*
21.3 Do.,
24,1 Do.,
Ettering Counterfeit Coins, ................. Drunkenver,..
...Being at large without Pa.....
Culawful posesion of Gunpowder, Larceny of z Jackets,
Asault and damage,
Larceny from Dwelling House....- Fighting in the Street,
Larceny of two pairs of Trowsers, ................................
Registrar General's Oßer, Hongkong, 29th February, 1808.
3 months hard labor and to fad se-
curity for 6 monika,
Committed for Trial.
| Fined & shilling", or 2 days' Impt.
Fined 60 seats, or 1 day's
Discharged,
2 months hard labor.
麒
1 month hard labor and 30 stroken,
Committed for Trial.
Discharged.
3 months hard labor & 3 days Solitary
confinement.
CECIL C. SMITA, Registrar Generať.
No 25.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Colonial Surgeon's Report, with Returns on the Sanitary Condition of the Colony for the Year 1867, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1868.
CECIL C. SMITH,. Acting Colonial Secretary,
VICTORIA, HONOzono, 15th February, 1868.
My Ninth Annual Report, which records the Sanitary condition of the Colony during the Year 1807, bears witness to the steady progress which Hongkong has made during the past ten years. I had proposed to embody on this occasion a historical resume of the health of the Colony from its first foundation, pointing out as far as possible to what causes might be referred the sickness to which Hongkong was at one time peculiarly fiable, and recording the important prophylactic measures taken from time to time by this Governinent, which bare tended in no small degree to bring about the remarkable improvement now experienced. Unfortunately I found that so little attention had been given to recording the statistics of life in the Colony, previous to the last ten years, that no amount of labor would enable me to prepare such a Report as I should desire, or one the accuracy even of which could be depended upon. I have therefore been compelled to limit myself to the prepara- tion of certain tables, to which I shall more fully refer hereafter. But every year I have greater reason to regret that no system exists for the effectual Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. In regard to the Deaths of Europeans this want is unre important than at first sight appears, and I think might very readily be obviated by forbidding interments without the production of a proper Medical Certificate of the cause of death, and the duration of the disease &c., somewhat in the form drawn up under the directions of the Registrar General of England and Wales, see Table XXI. These Certificates, handed over to the Colonial Surgeon, would enable him to compile a really valuable and instructive Report, and would cost the Government nothing beyond the paper and printing,
The Year 1866 I described in my last Report as "the mildest and most healthy year the Colony has passed through for a very long period" and it is with peculiar satisfaction that I find myself able to state that 1867 has surpassed its predecessor in salubrity nearly as much as 1800 had exceeded 1885. Indeed it is very gratifying to examine Table XI and find the death of only 56 Residents recorded, giving the low ratio of Mortality of 2.60 per cent, or little more than half of the average rate of the last ten years, or than one third of the average rate recorded since 1840 as seen in Table XIV.
The epidemic of Yellow Fever which occurred during the years 1865 and 1860, and which proved so fatal in Gaol, in Hospital, and among the poor of the town, was all but unknown in 1807; only one doubtful case having been recorded as occurring in Victoria Gaol, while not a single case of this disease was admitted into the Government Civil Hospital.
It is only justice to the memory of my predecessor in office, Mr. Morrison, to state that in his Annual Report for 1847 he drew attention to the resemblance which some cases of Hongkong Remittent Fever presented to the Yellow Fever of the West Indies, as I also did in my Report for 1863. He appears however not to have extended his researches in this direction, jand no sach epidemics as recorded in my last two Reports seem to have come under his observation.
Small Pox, which may be said to be endemic to Hongkong in the cold weather, was first seen in the Civil Hospital on the 13th January, the last case admitted being received from a vessel of war on the 5th June. In February Her Majesty's Ship Princess Royal arrive.t from Japan with Small Pox on board-36 cases were disembarked into the Convict Gaol at Stone Cutter's Island, which was place! at the disposal of the Naval Authorities by the Colonial Government, into a Gunboat fitted up as a
Hospital, ant into the Seamen's Hospital-of the whole number 4 died. Up to the present date no case has leven admitted this winter into the Civil Hospital, although I understand several have been received into the Seamen's Hospital. This disease raged among the Chinese population at Kowloon during the months of March and April, where it was said to have proved very fatal, while there were comparatively few cases in Victoria; but in the following month it attacked the Portuguese residing in the less healthy parts of the town-such as the neighbourhood of Bridges Street-and there it com- mitted considerabië havoc.
It appears to me that there exist unhappy facilities for the propagation of this and other infectious diseases in this Colony, an1, having reference to the action taken by the Lords of the Privy Council ander authority of the "Diseases Preven ion Act, 1855," I believe that great benefit would arise to the Community if Medical Practitioners were obliged to report the occurrence of all cases of infections disease to the Colonial Surgeon, or such other Health Officer as might be appointed, with whom the power should rest—either independently, or in conjunction with a Board of Health to order such case into Hospital, or to take such steps as might be deemed advisable for the isolation of the infected persons, and, at the same time, save the premises in which the disease occurred thoroughly disinfected-I have so frequently seen Small Pox recurrent year by year in the same locality that I believe some such course as I have just recommended to be essential to the well-being of the Luloay.
As bearing upon this subject the question of compulsory Vaccination demands attention. It is very evident that, as long is the population of this Colony is as migratory as at present, and while Vaccination is so little known on the mainlnad, no ystem for compelling the adoption of this precaution could be enforced, but it is not the less possible to encourage it, to a great extent, by the establishment of Public Vaccinators, who should be paid for their succesful cases only, and by insisting all persons in Government employ un lergoing the trifling operation. By such means something might be done to lessen hennaiber of the valuable lives that succumb to the fearful scourge of Small Pox.
} The next subject deserving of notice is the action taken under the "Order and Cleanliness Ordinance," of 1867, by which he liquors sold by the Tavera keepers were submitted to rigid analysis. The character of the liquors was found to be loss oxious than had been feared, but a good effect was derived from warning the dealers of the penalty they incurred, and it is robable that the exhibitions of frantic madness produced by the adulterated spirits formerly supplied by unscrupulous dealers rill soon become only matter of past record.*
* The unlicensed Chinese retallers of Samshu will however still require the utmost vigilance on the part of the Poller.
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