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TABLE B.-Return of ForMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1889.

FINDING.

Europeans and Americans.

Indi- ans &

Ja-

Malays. panese.

Men. Boys. Men. Men. Men.

3

1

:

: ස

:

Chinese.

Wo-

Boys. Girls.

men.

1

19

1

+4

1

:

A

Accidental death,

Accidental death by drowning,

Death from acute bronchitis,

Death from injuries received from an earth fall while

engaged in earth digging above Bonham Road and Victoria Gap in Hongkong,

Death from Syncope,

Death from the effect of a bullet wound,

Death from hemorrhage occasioned by a wound in the

right arm,

Death resulted from the blow of a stone on the head thrown at the deceased while engaging in arresting a prisoner,

Death resulted from a collapse of the cook house of each floor of house Nos. 23 and 24 Upper Station Street,

Death from the falling of a crane iron,

Death from hemorrhage on the brain, Drowning,

Death occasioned by an explosion of a cartridge while in the act of ramming it into the bore, the probable cause of the explosion being the unextinguished charred remains of the cartridge previously fired from the same gun,

Felo de Se,

Found drowned,

Killed by a fall from the top of a house while engaged

in hoisting up stone,

Manslaughter,..

Natural causes,................................................、

Suicide (in Gaol),

Suicide while in a state of unsound mind,

That the deceased died from the effects of neurotic and irritant poison or poisons self administered while in an unsound state of mind,.

That the deceased came to his death by being crushed beneath a quantity of iron that came down with him from the cockloft of the ground floor of the house, No. 26 Wing Wo Street,

That the deceased met with his death by being crushed beneath a shear piece falling upon him,... That the deceased met his death by falling through an open hatchway on board the S.S. Honam at the time lying at Victoria Harbour,

Wilful murder by person or persons unknown, Wilful murder,

*~ :

:

1

Total.......

:

-

2

I

!

:

:

:

-:-

:

ล

::

1

1

Total.

2

***

33

3

1

2

:

10:

1

1

N

2

1

1

1

1

:

:

1

1

I

1

1

1

10

5

43

7

5

5

76

TABLE C.-RETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1889.

Europeans and

Americans.

Reason why no Formal Enquiry was held.

No suspicious circumstances.......

No evidence and/or decomposed Į

state of Body,

Post Mortem satisfactory,

Chinese.

Indians. and Malays.

Very much de-

Found on

Found in

Land,

Harbour.

composed; Total.

Known.

Un-

known.

Knowy.

Un-

known.

sex not

Men. Women. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Women, ascertain-

:

2

4.

:

able.

97

16

18

16

3

152 113

6

24

9

7

47

45

õ

104

+

53

47

:

6

1

ม

:

Total,...

4

107

16

65

Magistracy, Hongkong, 31st January, 1890.

222

62

3

5

262

121

60

25

56

H. E. WODEHOUSE,

Police Magistrate.