No, OF
OFFENCE.
No. Of
CASEB.
PRI- SONERS.
Brought forward,.
9,747 11,306
OFFENCE.
Brought forward,............
Unlawful Possession of Property,
2561
of Trees, Shrubs, &c.,
16
Unlicensed Coolie Lodging Houses,.
i
-Hawkers.
1,169
1 Watchmen-Misconduct as Private, 1,169 Weights and Measures--Breach of Ordinance for,
-Passage Broker,
8
-Plying of Boats for Hire,
371
37
324 Verandahs-Erected over Crown Lands, Enclosing, &c.,.
16 Vagrancy-Other than Chinese.
8 Women and Female Children-Breach of Ordinance for
protection of...................
Unnatural Offence...
3
3 Workinen-Intimidating....................
Unwholesome Provisions-Exposing for Sale, or bring-
38
38
ing into the Colony,.
TOTAL..
Carried forward...................
11,275 12,902
253
NO. OF
No. of
CABES,
PRI- SOXERS.
11,275 12,902
109
109
33
33
7
7
119
119
92
127
12
12
11,647, 13,309
Years.
Total Number of Cases.
Committed
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
for Trial at Supreme Court.
Magistracy, Ilongkong, 12th January, 1889.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate, for the Police Magistrates.
ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1879, to 31st December, 1888, inclusixe.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Committed to Prison
or detained pending Orders of His Excellency
Ordered 10 find Security.
To keep the Peace, to be of Good Beha- viour, and to answer any charge.
Punished for Preferring
Total
the Governor.
or giving False Testimony.
False Charge Undecided.
Number
of Defendants.
3
4
G
7
8
9
10
12
13 14
15
16
17
M.
F.
ཏུ
M.
F.
M.
F
M.
M.
F.
M. F. M.
F.
M.
F.
1879,
7,009
5,758
361
1,900
189
145
13
18
230
32
18
$
34
8,103
602
1880,
7,098 5,892
252 1,775
187
170
27
15
204
1881.
8,203
833 7,049
1,678
178
192
4
369
1882,
7,567 6.049 394
1,922
255
259
3
268
100
1883,
19,658
8,127
670
2,398 849
121
154
1884,
14,065
1885,
10,281
1886,
11,748 1,088
7,951 14,611 12,081 842
2,294 268
101
228
849
1887.
1888,
12,01510,354 325 11,647 9,700
2,188 258 2,198 2,620 159
159
190
157
158
282 2,704 145
168
NNDE
357
869
100
411
98
1:
177
GRĒS:RĒRA
48
เ
37
15
33
8,126 531
65
34
53
9,879 630
13
80
8,622 780
160
11,003 1,101.
**
105
14,517 1,418
18
10,690 1,211
168
15,510 1,137
48
13,633 549
48
12,898 411
Grand Total for
the 10 Years,
103,149 | 84,709 5,346 | 21,677 2.178
1,680
134
287
25 3,262
626
169
33
747
33
112,481 | 8,370
Average of 1st period of 5 years,
8,106.0
6,977 0
2,165 2
200.0
22.8
305.4
27.2
77.8
9,775.4
Average of 2nd)
period of 5 years,
12,523.8
11,084.0
2,604 8
.152.8
39.6
472.2
13 2
78.2
14,250.0
Magistracy, Hongkong, 12th January, 1889.
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate,
for the Police Magistrates.
MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRIES INTO DEATHS.
TABLE A-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR, 1888.
Formal Enquiries held.
Buried without Formal Enquiries.
NATIONALITY.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total, Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Very much decomposed;
sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Europeans and Americans,
6
3
I
Portuguese,
Japanese,
1
:
:
:
1
:
Indians and Malays,
:
1
Chinese,
43
10
53
90
29
136
109
11
375
Total,...
52
co
པ་
5
3
63 93
22
32
137 109
11
382
Total for 1887, .
84
10
14
7
115 68
11
75
73
18
245
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