ABSTRACT of CASES brought under CoaNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of
Ten Years, from 1st January, 1888, to 31st December, 1897,
inclusive.
Cases, How DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER BACH IKAD,
TABLE 4.-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1897.
345
FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD.
BURIED WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES.
YEARS.
TOTAL NUMBER
Committed
Committed to Prison
Ordered to find!
Security.
NATIONALITY.
Punished for Veeterring
Tota
OF
CASES.
Convicted and Panished.
for Trial at
Discharged.
Supreme Court.
or detained pending Orders of His Excelency
To keep the Peace,
the Governor,
to be of Good Beha- viour, and to answer-
False Charge Undecided.
or giving
False
Number of Defendants.
Men. Women, Boys. Girls, Total. Men. Women. Boys, Girls.
Sex not ascertainable.)
Total.
any Charge.
Testimony.
M.
F.
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10
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12
13
14
16
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F.
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Europeans and Americans,
Indians and Malays,.
1888,
11.647
9,700 232
2,704
145
1989..
8,670 0,626 268
2,319 178
137
1890..
9,789 7,428 817 2,406 151
302
1891,
1892,
13,676 13,138 534 1,906 134 11,920❘ 11,771
327 1,927 151
323 S
168:
G
98
11
177
15
3
*
48
12,898
411
Japanese,
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10
44
10
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Å1
17
64
8 9,530 508
15
269
69
3
35
10,243 529
Chinese,
32
16
4
2
1
2
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6
58 128
27
212 208
16
591
7
3
12
158
19
1
143
2
4
191
20
7
28
15,693 689
15,969 50%
Total,.....
43
16
4
هموم
69 135
30
213 208
16
602
Total,...... 55,652 48,568 |1,078 | 11,262 750
507
20
174
17
1,083
147
318
*
62,333 2,684
Total for 1896, -
35
8
2
---
3
48 228
36
149 141
85
589
TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DUBING THE YEAR 1897.
Average per Year, .......
11,180-4
9.791 6336-6 | 2,952-4
151-8
1014
4:0
13
348
4-2
T4
2166
29-4 6-2
G3.6
1-8
12,466 6 | 526-8
893,
10,727
10,049
306 1,632
1894,
10,447 9,465 802 1,716
76
25
102
2
î
242
63
2
265
1895,
17,016 15,058 *25 2,345
196
61
مین
232
1896,
17,767 16,669 797
1,371 208
62
21
1897,
11,185 10,237 648
1,481 13!
78
12
232
183
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འ
17
23
11,972
420
Magistracy, 28th January, 1898.
10
i
16
11,530 428
12
199
17,3897 1,001
28
115
I
18,408 1,106
25
4
79
4
12,07) 807
Total,... 67.342
61,468 | 2,678
8,445 720
351 40
1.4
2
1,144
296 02
16
432
5
71,946 3,751
Average
Weezer 18,4284 12,293-6 535-6 1,689 0 144:0
702
80
28
04
228-8
39-2 184
2:0
26-4
{ {Þ
14,389-2 750
Grand Total
for the 10 122,794 | 110,4264,356 19,707 1,479 Years,......
838
GO
188
2.227
443 124
10
750
14 184,279 6.35%
Average per Year,.......
|12,279 4 11,042-6485-61,970-7 147-9
80-8
60
18-8
24
2227
41 3 12:3
1.0
76-0
14 18,427-00385
Magistracy, Hongkong, January, 1898.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate.
MAGISTRACT,
HONGKONG, 28th January, 1898.
No. 2.
SIR-I have the honour to forward herewith the usual Annual Returns for the year 1897 in connection with all cases of death brought to my notice during the year.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate.
The Honourable
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Accidental death,.
FINDING.
Accidental death--Suffocated by a fall of earth..
Accidental drowning,
Accidentally drowned,
Cause of death-Fracture of the skull caused by a fall from a verandah whilst
suffering from the effects of drink,
Cause of death-Pressure on the brain from hemorrhage the result of a blow girou by one Meclun, a seaman on board H. I. G. M. S. treous, with a stick.....
Compound fracture of the skull occasioned by a fall while attempting to escape
from the lawful arrest of the Police,.
Death by burning occasioned by an accidental outbreak of fire in Houses
Nos. 14 and 15, Fuk Tsun Heung,
Death by drowning caused by the subsidence of 360 feet of the Praya Recla-
mation wall. We attach no blame to anybody,
Death by opium poisoning, but how or by whom administered to the Deceased,
there is no evidence before the Court to show, Death from an overdose of opium,...............................
Death from asphyxia.
Death from asphyxia caused by a wound inflicted on the neck of the deceased with some sharp instrument by some person supposed to be the husband of the deceased and with intent to murder,
Death from asphyxia caused by hanging, self-inflicted, Death from heat apoplexy,.
Death from injuries received from a blow from a drum weighing thirty-four
ponuds and falling a distance of thirty feet upon the head of the deceased,. Death from intra-cranial hemorrhage occasioned by a fall from the hatch of
the main deck of the S.S. Haimun into the hold below..... Death from natural causes,.. ... ... ... ... ·
Death from phthisis,
Death from suffocation or fire upon the occasion of the destruction of House
64, Third Street by fire on the night of the 23rd November,... Death occasioned by injuries received from a fall in jumping over the verandab
of the first floor of the Government Civil Hospital in which he was a patient while in a state of mental aberration,
Carried forward,....
Euro-
peană.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate.
Chinese.
Total.
Mon.
Men. Women. Boys.
Girls.
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