TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1897.—Continued.
FINDING.
Brought forward,
Death occasioned by the falling of the buildings 248 and 250, Quecu's Road West, through the collapse of the party wall, occasioning death by asphyxia in the case of Un Ming and death by shock through injuries received in the case of Lai Tai Sin, there being no sufficient evidence to show what was the immediate cause of the collapse of the party wall....... Death occurred from injuries received from an accidental explosion... Death resulted from a bullet wound self-inflicted consequent upon mental distress in connection with money difficulties into which he had fallen with the Hongkong High-Level Tramway Co., Lal, of which he had been the Superintendent since 1892,
Death resulting from injuries received through the collapse of the party wall
dividing Houses 92 and 94, Hollywood Road,.
Death resulting from the effects of a fall from the verandab of the Second floor of Wellington Barracks over which the deceased jumped while in an unsound state of mind,
Drowned by deceased's boat being run down by the Danish S.S. Prejr. Accident due to Deceased having put her helm down instead of op and so attempted to re-cross the bows of the steamer,
Found drowned,
Murdered by some person or persons unknown,
Suicide by cutting ber throat whilst temporarily insane,
Suicide by drowning whilst temporarily insane,
Suicide by hanging,.
Suicide by hanging whilst of unsound mind,
Suicide by shooting through the head whilst in a state of mental aberration, That deceased came to his death by the collapse of No. 35, East Street due
to the shore having given way,
The Magistrate finds that the death of the deceased was occasioned by injuries received from a fall while engaged in working a piece of machinery on board H.M.S. Undaunted over the side of the ship, and that the fall was occasional by the use of an old or worn out strand which gave in the hands of the deceased as ho pulled at it,
Magistracy, 28th January, 1899.
Total,
Euro-
peans.
Chinese.
Total.
Men,
Men. Women.] Boys. Girls.
:
I
#
24
14
4
5
50
1
1.
:
2
Enclosure 3.
HONGKONG,
346
No.
29 M98
REPORT ON THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION FUND FOR THE YEAR 1897.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Offleer Administering the Government.
98
HONGKONG, 25th January, 1898,
SIR,--We have the honour to submit the following Report on the Widows' and Orphans' Fund For 1897.
A Statement of Accounts of the Fund to 31st December, 1897, is appended.
On that date, the Funds were disposed of as follows:--
On Fixed Deposit, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
...$ 43,000.00
Current Account
"}
י
41.11
'
Total,......
..$ 43,041.11
1
The average monthly contributions amount now to about $730.
2
1
}
Married men,
During the period under review, 45 officers joined the Fund and 25 contributors left. There are at present 192 contributors on the books; of whom 76 are bachelors, 111 are married,
and 5 are widowers.
There are 216 children on the books.
The average age
of the three classes of contributors is as follows:- Bachelors,
About 28 years.
11
32
16
4
6
69
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate,
TABLE C-RETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1897.
Reason why no Formal Enquiry was held,
Chinese.
Europeans and Americans.
Indians and Malays.
Japanese.
Sex not
ascertainable.
Men. Women Boys. Girls. Men, Women. Boys. Men. Women. Man.
Found o'i
Land
Found in
Harbour.
Total.
Un-
2
I
1
1
460 70 290 20
22
16
102
55
#
13 21
t
G
2
No suspicious circumstances, .......
102
19 170 168
1
10
No evidence andjor decomposed
state of body,
5
');
41
33
Post Mortem satisfactory,
17
1
2
:
Suspected persons were tried
for the murder of deceased,..... Buspected persons were tried for causing the death of deceased,
4
3
2
:
:
Total,.......
128
27
212
208
+
2
1
2
Magistracy, Hongkong, 28th January, 1898.
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7
3
3
يو
I
16
602 93
351
23
20
(13)
24
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.
Widowers,.....
A fraction under 37 years.
.52 years and 4 months.
The number of pensioners, viz., 6, remains the same as in the previous year :--
..$ 63.67 per annum, from 7th January, 1892.
Mrs. MoosDEEN,.
Mrs. BEAVIN,
..$ 14.45
$1
3rd June, 1894.
LEUNG CHE WAN,
.$ 30.09
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CHAN TAI,
Mrs. MOFFATT,
.$ 54.85
$163.10
23rd January, 1896.
17th February, 1896.
14th June, 1896.
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22nd July, 1896.
Mrs. MOORE,
5 children of the late S. MOORE, ...$119.93
We have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servants,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Chairman.
A. W. BREWIN,
F. MACHADO,
FRANCIS W. CLARKE,
J. G. DA ROCHA,
Directors.
The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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